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

Formula run

We’re setting new climate records. But no, it’s not in a good way

THE TOP 5 STORIES ON BIGISSUE.COM  LAST WEEK

The government says it’s too expensive to give disabled people in fire-risk blocks evacuation plans

How the Queen ended up on the cover of The Big Issue in a tabard alongside Street Cat Bob

Universal Credit sanctions are rising sharply at the exact moment payments are desperately needed

One-track mind • The Elizabeth Line represents the north-south divide

We’ve had to cut items from what we offer. We just can’t afford to provide the same amount any more • Diary of a foodbank manager

CHELSEA FLOWER TRIUMPH FOR GROUP WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS

ENERGY PRICE CAP

Do you remember the first time? Jarvis and everything after

The cost of living crisis is already driving more evictions than before the pandemic

Feel your landlord is letting you down? • Here’s five tips to help you make a complaint and get a change

While celebrating her past, the Queen could change our future

The Big Issue

Green shoots of recovery can help break the cycle of poverty

LETTERS

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

‘I’D GIVE EVERYBODY A PAY RISE AND HALVE THE ELECTRIC BILLS’ • What if the Queen had the vision of a Big Issue vendor? We asked our team what they’d do if they were Queen for a Day. The insights are intriguing

VOICES FROM THE COMMONWEALTH

THEN & NOW • The Queen has remained a constant in the UK over the last 70 years, but plenty of other things have changed. Here’s a snapshot of the state of the nation in 1952, compared with how things are looking today

CREATURE COMFORTS • Yes, the Queen owns all the swans but there’s a lot more where they came from, James McMahon has discovered

BUILDING A MOVEMENT • The Big Issue is launching a new podcast, BetterPod, to focus on what life will look like for future generations. Here’s why

INTRODUCING BETTERPOD

BRUCE HORNSBY • Fame came belatedly, but then the singer/songwriter found himself in the Grateful Dead and being sampled by Tupac

STREET ART ANTLERS

A wistful search for meaning in a cosmic time warp

Books on migration by women

Hauntingly vivid record of a lost expedition, frozen in history

The enduring filth and fury

‘IF I GET A LAUGH OUT OF YOU, I’LL TELL YOU ANYTHING’ • The nation’s favourite podcasting couple Chris and Rosie Ramsey talk about their record-breaking success – and what makes their marriage work

‘The great thing about podcasts, you literally go upstairs and do it’ • Josh Widdicombe had a good pandemic. “I wouldn’t want to use those word”, he says – but it’s true. He wrote a book, kept his gigs on The Last Leg and launched a podcast, Parenting Hell, with Rob Beckett, which quickly became the most listened to in the UK. He tells us how comedy has changed for good over the last two years.

Killing their own creations

MY PITCH INTERNATIONAL • A catch-up with vendors from across the Commonwealth