
The Big Issue Magazine
4 August 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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Joe mcdowell, 63

Tunespotting

Polmont youth theatre ‘it takes real courage to step onto that stage’

Why can’t we be chums?

A healthy insight

Art

‘the teenage ozzy would never believe, not in a million years, he could have the life i’ve had’

Fantastic voyage

‘we haven’t had long enough to evolve and respond to farming let alone the iphone’

This is what the future of building design looks like

Disabled big issue vendor jason has been waiting 21 years for an accessible home. there are millions just like him

Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: the ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted