The Big Issue

Across the country vendors are prevented from working on their pitches by the national lockdown. Our staff is working closely with each vendor to make sure there is extra support to make up for lost earnings. We also understand that apart from reduce

I thought your Pick Your Path feature [December 14] was excellent and turning the pages backwards and forwards in a slightly bewildering way mirrored to a very small extent the way in which many people have to navigate various bureaucratic systems. L

Campaigners are united in calls for the government to fight poverty with cash after ministers found themselves embroiled in a free school meals scandal. People across the country were furious after photos of frugal food parcels delivered to families

A couple from Oldham have become the “the world’s first” homeless people to receive a Covid-19 vaccine after the local authority defied government guidance to give people without a secure home priority access to jabs. Lee Ullha, 46, and Kelly Heney,

Last year, as the Covid crisis first gripped, The Big Issue launched the Ride Out Recession Alliance. While furlough measures helped millions of people, it was clear they wouldn’t help everybody. And we decided to do something about that. Early figu

2020 may have brought the unexpected with a global pandemic that transformed life as we know it – but even the troubled year didn’t bring zombies. Sure, there were many parallels between the zombie apocalypses so popular in fiction, such as the disc

It would be hard to find a film more relevant to the big issues of the day. A homeless man finds an abandoned baby, and with nothing except an oversized suit, a cane to twirl and a heart of gold, raises the boy as his own. The story of children suffe

The new threat of mass homelessness means that The Big Issue has to innovate. And in record time. We have to do all we can to keep people out of the harm of homelessness. Not wait until people are homeless because through the pandemic they have lost

I was a bona fide geek at school, though I wouldn’t have thought that at the time. I didn’t feel like I fitted into the normal run of how everybody else was, so I found my tribe in the school choir. By the time I got to 16 I just couldn’t wait to lea

Russell T Davies only deals in event television. From creating Queer as Folk for Channel 4 in 1999, to bringing back Doctor Who in 2005, writing A Very English Scandal (part of the Hugh Grant renaissance) in 2018, or 2019’s ambitious, terrifying near

I would describe my character Roscoe as brave, unapologetic, audacious, a force. What struck me was his boldness. My instinct was to tap into that self-expression because it’s something to be celebrated. People like Roscoe were shaping the gay landsc

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Like it when things get superheavy? Then you’ll be in your element Kit Chapman Lockdown means ANY kind of travel show is bathed in melancholy Lucy Sweet Ker-ching! Why rock legends are cashing in on their catalogues Malcolm Jack By David Basti

I once saw someone take apart the remains of an atomic bomb with a pink vibrator. Obviously, I had to ask the role of a sex toy in deactivating nukes, and the scientist happily obliged my curiosity. As part of the process, he explained, the team nee

Apart from going for another FECKING WALK, watching TV is probably the last thing you want to do at the moment. Of course, that won’t stop you from spending hours of enforced sedation in front of boxsets you’ve seen countless times before. But chanc

With cinemas closed for the foreseeable future, release schedules are being altered again. The latest rumour – unconfirmed at press time – is that James Bond adventure No Time To Die is on the verge of being delayed for a third time. If it does move,

Juicy stories of excess on the sets of film productions? Well, there’s no shortage of them. ›e abandoning of the expensive sets for 1963’s Cleopatra, only for them to be used by the much cheaper Carry On Cleo instead. The shooting of 1990’s Days Of T

He may be known as the farmer from Babe , but James Cromwell is an actor with a long history of activism. Until the system’s fixed, he says, we’ll keep making a pig’s ear of politics Winter in upstate New York, it’s cold comfort to find James Cromwe

1. In which year was the first iPod launched? 2. What are the colour of the studs that mark the left edge of a UK motorway? 3. Which author created the character Paddington Bear? 4. Patrick Stump is the singer of which US rock band? 5. In which U

Vendors have lost their income. With vaccine hope on the horizon, The Big Issue is calling on readers to help them get through the next 100 days. Right now, none of the 1,340 regular Big Issue vendors are able to sell the magazine. Cambridge vendor,

I was ravaged with addiction for years and that’s had an impact on my mental health. One day I was speaking to my community psychiatric nurse (CPN) and he gave me a card for Edinburgh Leisure so I could pay £1 a time to go to the gym or for a swim. I