Thirty years on, the force is still strong in us
There is one thing of which I’m certain. When John Bird and Gordon Roddick launched The Big Issue in 1991 they didn’t predict that in the week the title marked its 30th anniversary, a pop star’s remarks about her cousin’s friend’s testicles, related to a viral pandemic, would make global news. Or that the British PM would get involved in the chat.
But that, as the kids say, is the tea.
Things move quickly.
In 1991 the USSR still existed, but not for much
