10/9/2023

The Big Issue

The Big Issue - A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out

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The Dispatch
Just as the country hunkered down for the Covid-19 lockdown, a bright-eyed five-a-side fanatic took control of the Labour Party. He promised another future was possible, making the “moral case for socialism”. A short three years later, Keir Starmer’s
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FOUNDERS John Bird and Gordon Roddick GROUP CHAIR Nigel Kershaw GROUP CEO Paul Cheal BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MD Russell Blackman EDITORIAL & PRODUCTIONEditor Paul McNameeArt director Mark NeilDeputy editor Steven MacKenzieDigital editor Ryan Butc
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One Voice
This week, a referendum in Australia will take place to determine whether the country’s constitution will be altered to finally be inclusive of the Indigenous population. Voting has already started in rural communities, such as Yalgoo in Western Aust
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Editorial
Which tribe came to Britain from northern Europe in AD 410? Britain was victorious against which countries at the Battle of Trafalgar? Who was the first man to run the four-minute mile? Answer these questions and you could win British citizenship! My
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If You Want To Understand A Teenager’s World, Listen To Them
About two years ago, my daughter, who was 15 at the time, told me about a new trend going round her school. She told us that dozens of pupils were getting together in the school toilets to vape, that it seemed like almost every kid in the school was
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Bird’s Words
Last week and this week I am conference hopping. I have with me a pocketful of the smallest manifesto in the world and have been going up to those in the political field and inviting them to think beyond the stale and damaging structure of current go
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Letters
The Big Issue, 2nd floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW letters@bigissue.com @bigissue /bigissueUK @bigissueuk @thebigissue Will you please stop saying that the Section 21 notice is an eviction notice [Issue 1583, 25 September]. It is
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Big Issue And Specsavers A Shared Vision
World Homeless Day on 10 October raises awareness globally of how people are impacted by homelessness, and what is being done to tackle it. Here’s how Big Issue and Specsavers are working together to make eye care accessible to all our vendors As Big
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The Future Of Cities Can Our Urban Centres Survive The Storm?
We’re too obsessed with cities. Or at least the prime minister thinks so. As the Conservative Party began its conference in Manchester staring down the wrong end of a polling deficit, Rishi Sunak claimed: “Politicians have for too long taken towns fo
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The Bloody Truth Four Decades On, Those Affected By The Infected Blood Scandal Are Still Waiting For Justice. And Time Is Running Out
The clock is ticking for the victims of the contaminated blood scandal. They are still dying at the rate of one every four days as the government continues to prevaricate over the establishment of a compensation scheme. Even now as they await the fin
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Moving On
There is no ideal way to separate from a partner. Over the years, romcoms have portrayed breakup scenarios in various ways and come to the same conclusion: exes need physical and emotional space from each other. But what happens when you can’t achiev
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Moving (back) In
With my Netflix subscription cancelled and avocado toast a long-forgotten dream, I still can’t afford to rent, let alone buy a house. I graduated from my masters degree with no money, stable job prospects or clear way forward. So I moved back. In wit
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Adrian Edmondson
When I was 16 I was at boarding school, with a very strict discipline. I was always getting hit with sticks and didn’t really like my life very much. I enjoyed the games, and I enjoyed the rule breaking, that was fun. We were given a printed list of
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Art
Nearly 30 years on from the famed charity exhibition Little Pieces From Big Stars, War Child UK and Flowers Gallery have announced an important autumn exhibition and fundraiser. Opening to coincide with the UN International Day of the Girl Child, Los
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Books
JM Coetzee is a great writer, perhaps one of the greatest still around. His success is all the more extraordinary for the sheer uncanniness of his prose, the sparsely elegant feeling of obsession and neurosis that we take from his characters. That se
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The Unstoppable Creative Force Of Mr T
It’s been 24 years since Queer as Folk brought rimming to Channel 4 and 18 since the Tardis landed in Cardiff. How are the two connected? Both changed British TV completely and were created by Russell T Davies. In 1999 he brought us the seminal Queer
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Film
Fifty years ago, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist offered a realistic horror about agents of Christ fighting an evil that contradicts itself at every turn, making it impossible to purge. More than little girls swearing in low registers or pea soup vom
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‘There’s This Ongoing Generational Trauma’
In 2019, Nathaniel J Hall wrote and performed First Time, in which he confronted his HIV diagnosis. Two years later, he landed a role in It’s a Sin, Russell T Davies’s critically acclaimed Channel 4 miniseries about the early days of the Aids crisis.
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Music
“I don’t think music is really separate from living,” the musician and composer Bex Burch tells me from her home in Berlin. We are discussing her new album, There Is Only Love And Fear, released later this month on the renowned Chicago-based label In
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Lucy Sweet Is On The Verge
When I’m in the kitchen, there are frequently dramatic scenes, usually when I burn the dinner because I’m looking at my phone. Most people don’t realise how pressurised cooking oven chips is, especially if you’ve had a long day. Combine that with try
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Puzzles
1. I will give medical care or abuse (3-5)6. Has turned youth leader grey (4)8. Some have reason to assert (4)9. Anna is to compose a short musical piece (8)10. Make disc the world’s best seller (6,1,6)11. Sunshine of your smile? (4)13. Visible impre
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My Pitch International
NIKKI SMITH moved to Washington DC earlier this year. An artist and activist, she sells Street Sense while helping other women experiencing homelessness My name is Nikila Smith, but I prefer to be called Nikki. I am a married woman who’s homeless. I

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