The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a UK-based street paper that supports the homeless, the vulnerably housed asnd those seeking to escape poverty. Vendors normally buy the magazine for £1.25 and sell to the public for £2.50. We are using Zinio digital editions to create additonal revenue opportunities to fund our street-based and pastoral care services for our vendors. We are a social enterprise company and all revenues go to support the vulnerable communities we serve. Our goal is to move our vendors away from dependency and towards full time employment

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THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Should Glasgow be game for 2026?

BIRD’S WORDS • When it comes to poverty prevention it’s minds, not data, we must change

LETTERS

The future is now

Britain is running out of water. We need new reservoirs before it’s too late

The green transition will happen, with or without this government • When Rishi Sunak reneged on his climate policy promises last year, he put himself at odds with the industry leaders and experts who have been working towards meeting the UK’s net zero targets. As the devolved nations power ahead with their own green transition plans, it will be left to the next elected government to catch up with the tide

‘Focusing our energy on politics isn’t going to get us anywhere’

What price the moon? How the lunar frontier is shaping up to be the new Wild West

How the lithium rush in West Africa is harming rural life

CONFLICT Counting the cost of war on the climate

Dark clouds and silver linings in the climate crisis

My Climate and Nature Bill is our last chance saloon for action

Five species of wildlife having a comeback in the UK

Hedgerows are amazing. Here’s why we must plant more of them

Is foraging a way to feel fully human?

‘Nothing beats what nature makes. It really speaks to me’

OLLY MURS • His boyband obsession eventually led to the pop stardom he’d long dreamed of. But the reality also exposed fame’s dark side

ART • FACES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS By Motaz Azayza

Books

Film

Kerry Condon ‘SOMETIMES EMPATHY CAN BE A LITTLE CRIPPLING’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Theatre

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Sainsbury’s Marsh Mills, Plymouth Tuesday-Saturday 9am-5pm