Latest Features

WIN GIANT PANDAS! (Well, a visit to see Britain’s only Giant Pandas…)

This week we are giving away five pairs of family tickets to see the Pandas and over 1,000 other animals at Edinburgh Zoo

The Wimp Who Conquered The World

Laura Kelly

How did a simple comic-book character become a million-dollar industry and a White House favourite? Laura Kelly investigates Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

"Darling, would you mind if I dialled Rent-a-Hubby?"

Rachel Johnson

While women have learned to multi-task, men have somehow lost the skills to do the stuff they 're supposed to do...

Win! A copy of Secondhand and Vintage London

This week we are giving away ten copies of the shoppers' bible, Secondhand and Vintage London

Diary of a News Junkie

Jane Graham

Can we live without news in our info-obsessed age?

2 days 12 hours ago
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).
3 weeks 3 days ago
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.
3 days 13 hours ago
I used to have a job at the fairground on Brighton Pier, where I mostly worked on the dodgems. I guess there’s a lesson there.
Is Ken Clarke's latest idea to tackle prisoner numbers another howler? Or is the justice secretary talking a lot of sense? Helena Drakakis reports
New Labour's former spin guru tells The Big Issue that a national 'happiness agenda' is crucial
After last year's riots, the PM praised a Scottish scheme for dealing with gangs. Jasper Hamill asks if the same approach can work in the capital
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

Latest Reviews

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (PG)

3

The 3D animation makes an iconic comic-book character look plain weird

We Need To Talk About Kevin (15)

2

This ambitious adaptation misses its mark with Kevin more like Damien from The Omen

Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials (Island)

4

Florence Welch’s 2009 debut album, Lungs, swept away all before it, going four-times platinum in the UK alone...

I Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan

4

I Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan (HarperCollins) - Alan Partridge