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Hitting the gym and taking up boxing and mixed martial arts for self-improvement is nothing new but harnessing their power to strike back against homelessness certainly is. Fighting Homelessness is a

Movie magic I watched A Day to Remember after reading John Bird’s column [Issue 1697, 15-26 December]. Please say thank you to him. The movie had a depth and poignancy that I would have missed if he h

On 24 July, the US government announced a new executive order, ‘Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets’, which reversed support for longstanding federal policies like Housing First and pushed

London Big Issue vendors Paul Logan and Terry are making noise about the need for Big Issue customers to take the magazine with a little help from up-and-coming punk rockers The Molotovs. The pair, wh

Marc Burrows believed the public’s mass act of protest which propelled Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name to Christmas Number One in 2009 would be the last time that would ever happen [Iss

If Paddington Bear was lost, homeless and roaming around Paddington Station today with nowhere else to go, he wouldn’t be the only one. “After the trains stop running, the underground closes and there