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Grand Theft Auto is about people in hardship wanting to improve their lives – a bit like Big Issue
A screenshot of Grand Theft Auto Vice City showing the player character in front of a building and palm trees
Steven MacKenzie

Grand Theft Auto is about people in hardship wanting to improve their lives – a bit like Big Issue

I’m looking forward to returning to an upgraded Vice City, write Big Issue editor Steven MacKenzie
Inside the Big Issue: The socially conscious guide to Grand Theft Auto VI
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The socially conscious guide to Grand Theft Auto VI

As AI threatens to steal composers' livelihoods, the industry is fighting back
Music

As AI threatens to steal composers' livelihoods, the industry is fighting back

Being Heumann's Rob Delaney: 'Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand'
Interview

Being Heumann's Rob Delaney: 'Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand'

Meet the 80-year-old with a learning disability who wants others to live to their 'golden age'
Mencap

Meet the 80-year-old with a learning disability who wants others to live to their 'golden age'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Actor Ashley Walters: 'There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London'
Ashley Walters
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Ashley Walters: 'There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London'

Charlie Mackesy: 'I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI'
Charlie Mackesy
Illustration

Charlie Mackesy: 'I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI'

Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’
Film

Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’

Being Heumann: 'Our world looks different because of what these protesters did'
Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann in Being Heumann
Disability activism

Being Heumann: 'Our world looks different because of what these protesters did'

Food poverty or fuel poverty? Why treating poverty as separate issues is unhelpful
SPA Poverty Policy Group is led by academics Vicki Dabrowski and Natalija Atas
Natalija Atas and Gideon Calder

Food poverty or fuel poverty? Why treating poverty as separate issues is unhelpful

'I went to A&E with a migraine. It was a rare brain tumour. Sometimes I feel it’s not fair'
Cal Petrie (left) with his twin brother Brodie during his time in hospital
Brain tumour research

'I went to A&E with a migraine. It was a rare brain tumour. Sometimes I feel it’s not fair'

I went to Andy Burnham's rough sleeping summit. The government has a task ahead but we live in hope
John Bird

I went to Andy Burnham's rough sleeping summit. The government has a task ahead but we live in hope

Councils are spending millions on private children’s homes. So why aren’t kids getting better care? 
private ownership

Councils are spending millions on private children’s homes. So why aren’t kids getting better care? 

'For years politicians have bought votes by promising tax cuts. It's time to face reality'
Andy Burnham and John Healey on the day of the autumn budget.
Letters

'For years politicians have bought votes by promising tax cuts. It's time to face reality'

Bristol Big Issue vendor Mike Turner: 'The shortage of housing in this city is a moral injustice'
Big Issue vendor Mike Turner
Housing

Bristol Big Issue vendor Mike Turner: 'The shortage of housing in this city is a moral injustice'

Inside the Big Issue: Lessons from a mole
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Lessons from a mole

The budget promised breathing space. But is it enough to get us out of the pickle we're in?
pickles
Liam Geraghty

The budget promised breathing space. But is it enough to get us out of the pickle we're in?

Comedian Ahir Shah: 'We spend more on debt interest than we do on education'
Comedian Ahir Shah
PM For The PM

Comedian Ahir Shah: 'We spend more on debt interest than we do on education'

I am a big fan of eulogies. Here's why they are far more revealing than obituaries
white and yellow flowers in a vase in front of a grey background
Books

I am a big fan of eulogies. Here's why they are far more revealing than obituaries

'What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office'
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk
Letter To My Younger Self

'What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office'

How disused garages are being turned into affordable homes to tackle London's housing crisis
Designs demonstrating how Naked House turns disused garages into homes
Housing

How disused garages are being turned into affordable homes to tackle London's housing crisis

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Credit is cheap for the rich and expensive for the poor. That must change
Nick Bryer

Credit is cheap for the rich and expensive for the poor. That must change

The government promised a brownfield housebuilding boom. What’s the hold up? 
Housing

The government promised a brownfield housebuilding boom. What’s the hold up? 

Funeral poverty: What happens when you can't afford to die?
Cost of living

Funeral poverty: What happens when you can't afford to die?

Mr Skelly artist Christian Watson: 'I had a pretty rough childhood. I felt wronged by the world'
Mr Skelly artwork.
Art

Mr Skelly artist Christian Watson: 'I had a pretty rough childhood. I felt wronged by the world'