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David Harewood: 'I would tell my younger self to get prepared. Because life is tough, isn’t it?'
David Harewood
drama

David Harewood: 'I would tell my younger self to get prepared. Because life is tough, isn’t it?'

Meet Me In The Bathroom reminds me how lucky I was to live through a proper epoch in music
A crowded dancefloor in New York
Music

Meet Me In The Bathroom reminds me how lucky I was to live through a proper epoch in music

National Vendor Week: Big Issue sellers pick their favourite cultural highlights
Culture

National Vendor Week: Big Issue sellers pick their favourite cultural highlights

Daniel Mays: 'Becoming a dad made me a better person and a better actor, it galvanised me'
Daniel Mays
Letter to My Younger Self

Daniel Mays: 'Becoming a dad made me a better person and a better actor, it galvanised me'

The Gold star Jack Lowden: Saoirse Ronan does a better Scottish accent than me
Nicola Sturgeon, Saoirse Ronan and The Gold star Jack Lowden at the Scottish premiere of Mary Queen of Scots at Edinburgh castle. Credit: Euan Cherry/WENN
celebrity

The Gold star Jack Lowden: Saoirse Ronan does a better Scottish accent than me

Jack Lowden on BBC thriller The Gold: 'It was sort of ridiculous, but also dangerous'
Jack Lowden
heist

Jack Lowden on BBC thriller The Gold: 'It was sort of ridiculous, but also dangerous'

Rufus Sewell is too hot to play Prince Andrew (but he still won’t be sweating in new Netflix film Scoop)
Rufus Sewell and Prince Andrew
TV

Rufus Sewell is too hot to play Prince Andrew (but he still won’t be sweating in new Netflix film Scoop)

The pop culture milestones that helped shape LGBTQ+ history
pride flags being waved at a Pride celebration
LGBTQ+ History Month

The pop culture milestones that helped shape LGBTQ+ history

Joe Cornish: 'Revolution brought on by young people is very attractive'
Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati in Lockwood & Co. (Show runner Joe CornishPhoto: Netflix
ghosts

Joe Cornish: 'Revolution brought on by young people is very attractive'

Slash, hobbits and walrus vomit at Wētā Workshop
Slash of Guns N Roses on stage
special effects

Slash, hobbits and walrus vomit at Wētā Workshop

‘Rishi Sunak wants a drone army of data entering robots’: Simon Pegg’s furious attack on PM’s maths plan
Rishi Sunak and Simon Pegg
Education

‘Rishi Sunak wants a drone army of data entering robots’: Simon Pegg’s furious attack on PM’s maths plan

Peter Dinklage, Kenneth Branagh, Sharon Horgan: The best of Letter To My Younger Self 2022
Best of Letter to My Younger Self
life lessons

Peter Dinklage, Kenneth Branagh, Sharon Horgan: The best of Letter To My Younger Self 2022

Harry Styles’s jumpsuits and the Jubilee: It's the cultural moments of the year
Greg James picks Harry Styles’s jumpsuits as his cultural moment of the year. Illustration: The Big Issue
best of the year

Harry Styles’s jumpsuits and the Jubilee: It's the cultural moments of the year

How a community fought the police and a billion-pound contract to save their street trees
The Felling, Sheffield trees
activism

How a community fought the police and a billion-pound contract to save their street trees

The Banshees of Inisherin is a curious tonic for these bleak times
Colin Farrell and his little donkey in The Banshees of Inisherin
Paul McNamee

The Banshees of Inisherin is a curious tonic for these bleak times

Living starring Bill Nighy is an elegant film but it's not a 1950s I recognise
Bill Nighy in Living
John Bird

Living starring Bill Nighy is an elegant film but it's not a 1950s I recognise

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Luke Evans on beating bullies, duetting with Nicole Kidman and the perfect Christmas song
Luke Evans
getting festive

Luke Evans on beating bullies, duetting with Nicole Kidman and the perfect Christmas song

Bafta Breakthrough: 'Someone requested a meeting with Brad Pitt and they made it happen'
The Bafta Breakthrough 2022 cohort includes Nell Barlow, Joanna Boateng, Jack Rooke, Paul Sng and Marley Morrison
Culture

Bafta Breakthrough: 'Someone requested a meeting with Brad Pitt and they made it happen'

This is Gwar interview: 'We are the real Spinal Tap'
Gwar guitarist Balsac the Jaws of Death
Film

This is Gwar interview: 'We are the real Spinal Tap'

Author Jonathan Melville: My trip behind the scenes of classic movie Local Hero
Local Hero illustration
Books

Author Jonathan Melville: My trip behind the scenes of classic movie Local Hero