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How can we revitalise the high street?
Steven MacKenzie

How can we revitalise the high street?

We’ve become disconnected from the places and people we live beside. There’s plenty of space to build homes but little chance of building a community
Inside the Big Issue: 128 days to end rough sleeping
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: 128 days to end rough sleeping

Munya Chawawa and Jack Rooke: 'How can we make sure new theatre makers aren’t all Oxbridge people?'
Jack Rooke and Munya Chawawa
Comedy

Munya Chawawa and Jack Rooke: 'How can we make sure new theatre makers aren’t all Oxbridge people?'

The Edinburgh Fringe costs performers thousands. Why do they still go?
Arts funding

The Edinburgh Fringe costs performers thousands. Why do they still go?

Jordan Stephens: 'You can't ban social media without giving young people anywhere else to go'
Music

Jordan Stephens: 'You can't ban social media without giving young people anywhere else to go'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg: 'Young people are always the first to bear the brunt of cuts'
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Employment

Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg: 'Young people are always the first to bear the brunt of cuts'

Why do prime ministers now last as long as Premier League managers? 
Andy Burnham and his prime minister predecessors on a mock football pitch
Politics

Why do prime ministers now last as long as Premier League managers? 

'I’m in spaces where I’m the only girl and feel like I have to outshine everyone to make a point'
Girl Grind UK
Employment

'I’m in spaces where I’m the only girl and feel like I have to outshine everyone to make a point'

Hip hop star Loyle Carner is cooking up solutions for young people with ADHD at Chilli Con Carner
Loyle Carner with people from his cooking school Chilli Con Carner
Neurodiversity

Hip hop star Loyle Carner is cooking up solutions for young people with ADHD at Chilli Con Carner

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers
Holiday Culb magazine
Creative jobs

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers

Why Downing Street needs a new name if it is going to properly repair the fabric of society
Number 10 Downing Street
John bird

Why Downing Street needs a new name if it is going to properly repair the fabric of society

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'
Maya Jama
Employment

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'

'What are data centres actually for? Did anyone actually ask us if we want AI?'
Wires connecting to a server
Letters

'What are data centres actually for? Did anyone actually ask us if we want AI?'

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?
Shuab Gamote
NEETs

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?

Amelia Dimoldenberg: How can young people thrive if there are no places left for them to grow?
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Amelia Dimoldenberg

Amelia Dimoldenberg: How can young people thrive if there are no places left for them to grow?

Inside the Big Issue: Amelia Dimoldenberg's opportunity issue
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Amelia Dimoldenberg's opportunity issue

The Edinburgh tour delivered by a former homeless woman that goes to the city's darkest corners
An Invisible Cities tour in Edinburgh
Travel

The Edinburgh tour delivered by a former homeless woman that goes to the city's darkest corners

The Script's Danny O'Donoghue: 'I needed spiritual guidance when Mark died'
Danny O’Donoghue from The Script
Letter To My Younger Self

The Script's Danny O'Donoghue: 'I needed spiritual guidance when Mark died'

What walking around the world taught Karl Bushby: 'A constant display of the very best of humanity'
Karl Bushby in Chile in 1999
Travel

What walking around the world taught Karl Bushby: 'A constant display of the very best of humanity'

Andy Burnham wants to prevent homelessness. But can he do it in 'landlord-class Britain'?
The silhouette of a homeless person sat in front of a house illustrated as a calculator
Investigation

Andy Burnham wants to prevent homelessness. But can he do it in 'landlord-class Britain'?

How James Ellis Ford made a solo album in his hospital bed while suffering from leukaemia
James Ellis Ford in his home studio
Music

How James Ellis Ford made a solo album in his hospital bed while suffering from leukaemia

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Formula E and giffgaff partner to create new opportunities for Big Issue Recruit candidates
Partnership

Formula E and giffgaff partner to create new opportunities for Big Issue Recruit candidates

Farewell to much-loved Wimbledon 'local landmark' and Big Issue vendor Jane Burns
Wimbledon Big Issue vendor Jane Burns
In memoriam

Farewell to much-loved Wimbledon 'local landmark' and Big Issue vendor Jane Burns

Migrants are twice as likely to work nights than Brits. The care system would collapse without them
A clock with a moon and clouds to illustrate night carers
Essay

Migrants are twice as likely to work nights than Brits. The care system would collapse without them

'It's none of Trump's business how we run our internal affairs'
Letters

'It's none of Trump's business how we run our internal affairs'