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 TOP 5 STORIES ON BIGISSUE.COM  LAST WEEK

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

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EDITOR'S LETTER • We should all join Andy Burnham on his journey

THE BIG ISSUE UK

BIRD'S WORDS • The Beatles were right to preach love. But it’s not all we need

LETTERS

The BIG ISSUE BULLETIN • What we’ve done, what we’re doing

‘TWO WEEKS AGO WE WERE HELPING HOMELESS PEOPLE. NOW WE HELP EVERYONE’ • Around three million people have fled their homes in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, triggering a wave of homelessness. But what about the people who remain in the war zone? Liam Geraghty speaks to the brave frontline homelessness workers responding to the humanitarian crisis

THE SCALE OF THE CRISIS

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HOME OFFICE BUREAUCRACY LEFT THIS FAMILY IN TERRIFYING LIMBO

THEY WERE PUNK. THEY WERE WILD. THEY DID THINGS ON THEIR OWN TERMS • As new BBC Two drama Then Barbara Met Alan reveals the direct action that led to the Disability Discrimination Act, stars Ruth Madeley and Arthur Hughes, and writers Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr, take us inside the story of an unsung British civil rights struggle

ALEX WINTER • After having to graft to get a foothold in film, the actor and director has been on many journeys, not all of them bogus

STREET ART • CHANGING PERCEPTIONS: A PRISON ART EXHIBITION

REVIEWS • A wild lifetime’s worth of wisdom to share, and no time to lose

Fight Night is the funniest, most life-affirming and most virtuosic novel I expect to read this year

Kids’ books celebrating self-expression • Selected by Kat Patrick Well-travelled children’s author

The day I became a ‘crocodile man’

REVIEW • A startling coming-of-age story with a misleading title

Peter Mullan project gives a voice to those on the margins

‘TIME IS A GIFT. YOU JUST HAVE TO USE IT IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME • (actually, he’s gone to Seville to watch West Ham)

The most influential band you’ve never heard of

IT’S TOUGH BEING YOUNG AND BROKE – BUT HELP IS OUT THERE

DEAN PORTER, 46