The Big Issue Magazine
5 February 2024
The Big Issue is one of Britain’s leading news and cultural magazines. Every week’s edition is packed full of original takes on the biggest issues of the day as well as interviews with the most significant figures in politics and entertainment. The Big Issue was founded 1991 to give people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to earn their own income. We continue to support hundreds of vendors across the UK and all proceeds from sales go to help anyone wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.
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The dispatch
Editor’s letter
The government must do more to help people back into work. big issue recruit’s blueprint offers a way forward
Bird’s words
Letters
Things can change. filmmaker lorna tucker’s humanising documentary delivers a searing truth that homelessness can happen to anyone, and reminds us hope is never lost
A day in the life
Women and girls in afghanistan are defying the taliban at secret schools. ‘we are not alone’
The true cost of being single
Angela griffin
Being cleverer doesn’t make humans nicer
Dreaming a new reality