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The Big Issue

Aug 18 2025
Magazine

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 • News, views & miscellany

Glasgow City Council knew this building was dangerous for years. Its collapse left people homeless

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

YOUR LETTERS

So I’m doing my big scene. I look up and there’s James Bond, the Queen, Gandhi, Whitney Houston and Miss Babs from Acorn Antiques • As The Thursday Murder Club arrives in cinemas and on Netflix, Big Issue Ambassador Daniel Mays takes us inside the summer’s biggest British film

Inside the mission to feed the UK’s children over the holidays ‘Some kids won’t go home to another meal’

Schools are turning into food banks to stave off holiday hunger

THE FIRST FRONTIER

BEE NIGHT WALKER

BELINDA CARLISLE • The Go-Go’s frontwoman was a rowdy class clown who formed punk bands with friends. Then her career went one step beyond

So I start a resolution from my bed

Pretty fly

Welcome to the TikTokification of politics

What is the UK-France treaty on Channel crossings?

‘WE WANT HIS SHORT TIME ON THIS EARTH TO HAVE A POSITIVE EFFECT’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

I’ve decided to micro-retire in my 20s. I’m not alone

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Waitrose, Bressenden Place, Victoria, London Every day 9am-3pm

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  • English