The Big Issue

BIRD’S WORDS

Coming together to make poverty history

This crescendo of a day, last Wednesday (May 17), when we launched our ‘All-Party Parliamentary Group’ – an APPG – did not disappoint. Even if it was un-slick, or clumsy, or seeking clarity when clarity was hard to achieve, it served its purpose well. It launched upon the world in as best a form as it could.

If people want to know what the launch of The Big Issue was like, watch the beginning and growth of this, our ‘Business Response to a Social Crisis’ APPG. If

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