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Our Issues: Fair Deal For Kinship Carers

Sadie Prior, a 52-year-old grandmother, says that looked-after children are not getting enough support...

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My Week - Dr Brooke Magnanti

Former call girl and Belle de Jour blogger Dr Brooke Magnanti on running, erotic fiction, and keeping some secrets from the neighbours

Interviews

Dionne Warwick, Aged 71

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Grammy-winning soul legend Dionne Warwick on her dancing dreams, 1960s segregation, and 'quitting every day'

Letter To My Younger Self

Tanya Byrne: "The truth is much crueller than fiction"

Author Tanya Byrne on the harrowing research into women's prisons that informed her novel, Heart-Shaped Bruise

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Joey Barton: "My head is filled with disillusion towards the state"

After his controversial exit from the game of the season, Big Issue columnist Joey Barton has revolution in mind...

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John Bird

Bird's Words

Will government by X Factor really work?

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"These days public interest is seen to be best served by total exposure"
Paul Macnamee

Editor's Letter

Texts, tyrants and trade-offs

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"The PM's way of signing off texts is dispiriting - like he's chatting on Bebo, not making hard choices"

My Pitch

Gerard Short, Age 51, Sainsbury’s Local, Broad Quay, Bristol

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"I keep writing to David Cameron about the state of the economy but he never replies. He might one day"

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Dalai Lama "shocked” by the British riots

At St Paul's Cathedral to accept the £1.1m Templeton prize, the Dalai Lama revealed how he contacted David Cameron to ask why British youth rioted last summer

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Scottish Independence: To Beeb or not to Beeb?

If Scottish Independence becomes a reality, what will they watch on TV? In this week's Big Issue, Thomas Quinn examines the SNP’s proposals to break up the BBC...

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Charlie Casanova: Anger Mismanagement

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"A scorching novel and a brilliant portrait of insanity" Author Jason Starr picks five essential reads...

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