The Big Issue Magazine
17 February 2025
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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Interview ‘you see the political through the microcosm of a family’
In a dark and lonely place
Art self portrait
Residents in tower hamlets are fighting plans for a new chinese embassy on their estate. it’s an urgent david and goliath battle that involves national security, diplomacy, heritage, human rights and even democracy itself
In 1985, london’s east end burst onto british tv screens as eastenders was launched. today, that landscape is much changed. we’ve gone on a hunt for the real albert square
Face value
Into finn air
