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

Drawing a line

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

FOR TOO LONG BYSTANDERS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT HAVE NOT BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THAT’S GOT TO CHANGE

BIRD’S WORDS • We could end homelessness with a little thing called hope

LETTERS

RE: RUSSELL BRAND COVER FEATURE [MARCH 28]

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

GLOBAL ROUNDUP • Street papers and positive thinkers making a difference around the world

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? • Millions risk plunging into poverty as the cost of living soars. Faced with a grilling by MPs, chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted more help with energy bills would not come before October. As the crisis deepens, these are the community heroes stepping up to offer a lifeline to those the government has failed to protect

WHERE TO GET HELP, AND WHERE TO GIVE IT

STATE OF SHAME

‘YOU HAVE TO BE EMOTIONALLY TOUGH BECAUSE THEY CAN CRUSH YOU, EVEN IF YOU’RE RIGHT’ • The founder of Global Witness talks to Sam Delaney about exposing corruption, and why the UK has an oligarch problem

PADDY CONSIDINE • He started off as the class clown, then his drama teacher wanted him to be a car engine but his friend had better ideas

HELP IS AT HAND

Cities that beguile, stories that draw us in

Books on Turkish Cypriot lives

What happened to history’s missing 10 days?

Why Tucci’s Italian odyssey is food for the soul

‘I READ SOMEWHERE THAT EMPATHY CAN BE TAUGHT. IMAGINE IF WE DID THAT’

LUCY SWEET IS ON VERGE

Welcome to the club

RECORD OF THE WEEK

In defence of buddleja, blossom of the concrete jungle

MY PITCH