Why are our vendors so popular? Why can you not meet a single Big Issue buyer who does not chirp on about some Big Issue vendor, expecting me to know them personally (I often do not).
There has been much written and talked about in recent times about the terminal decline of print. Change is blowing in, of course, but at The Big Issue we believe in a future for words and pictures on paper.
As bus drivers on the south coast are told not to call passengers 'babe' or 'darling', Laura Kelly asks if this is common sense - or an attack on local slang