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

In quiet remembrance

Thousands unite across Britain to put pressure on policy makers to fight ‘humanitarian crisis’ of living costs

THE TOP 5 STORIES ON BIGISSUE.COM  LAST WEEK

MPs find state aid to help energy bills. For MPs.

Sewage STILL being dumped into rivers at alarming rate. Government pledge 70 per cent drop. By 2035…

This is how much difference the £20 Universal Credit uplift made to those facing food insecurity during the pandemic

CLIMATE RADICALS

The government is spending £7 million PER MONTH on PPE that is not fit for purpose. There are better ways to spend that money

SHELL SHOW WHO REALLY HAS THE POWER IN THE ENERGY CRISIS

Meet the man who has knitted 2,000 hats for LGBTQ+ experiencing homelessness

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has pledged to hit rogue landlords with stern words through social media. Instead, they could implement these useful legal rights

How our Russell Brand interview started a national conversation

Let creative voices spark a revolution

THE BIG ISSUE

BIRD’S WORDS The cost of keeping people poor shows a poverty of ideas

LETTERS

RE: WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING TO FIGHT THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS [April 4]

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

Meet the builders turning London’s empty houses into affordable homes

‘IN ALL THIS DARKNESS YOU SEE LIGHT’ • Last month, we spoke to Father Vitaliy Novak, working on the front line in Kharkiv to help hundreds of people sheltering in the city. He’s still there, and he’s not giving up

HUNGARY’S REFUGEE RESPONSE IS COMPLEX, AND ORBAN’S ELECTION VICTORY MAKES IT HARDER STILL

WHEN JOHNNY MET BLONDIE • Johnny Marr is having a good year. His Billie Eilish collaboration just won an Oscar, and he’s about to play alongside his old pals Blondie on their upcoming tour. So what do megastar music legends talk about when they get together? Sam Delaney listens in

PARALLEL LIVES

THE MAN WHO SCAMS THE SCAMMERS

JJ CHALMERS • He sustained horrific injuries in Afghanistan, then fought back to a new life as a TV presenter and disability advocate

STREET ART • PARTY BAG

Illicit love and the savagery of self-loathing

Fictional haunted houses

My dad, the charismatic radical

Old habits die hard in Paul Verhoeven’s blasphemously sexy nun drama

MY ROADMAP TO DONALD TRUMP

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME • (actually, he’s gone to a music festival in Cardiff)

Peace, love and songs you can’t argue with

MY PITCH