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Everyone is being asked to prepare for troubled times. What does it mean for people in poverty?
Steven MacKenzie

Everyone is being asked to prepare for troubled times. What does it mean for people in poverty?

Big Issue serves as an essential emergency provision for many in times of crisis
Inside the Big Issue: Food for Good: Open in emergency
Big Issue 1738 cover
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Food for Good: Open in emergency

A disabled Big Issue vendor has launched legal action to get an accessible home: 'I've had enough'
Big Issue vendor Jason Sallis pictured in his overgrown garden
Accessible homes

A disabled Big Issue vendor has launched legal action to get an accessible home: 'I've had enough'

'I don’t fit the stereotype of a homeless person. My story shows how it can happen to anyone'
Homelessness

'I don’t fit the stereotype of a homeless person. My story shows how it can happen to anyone'

The Uprising director Paul Greengrass: 'A world so sharply divided is going to be angry'
Film

The Uprising director Paul Greengrass: 'A world so sharply divided is going to be angry'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
KSI: 'People do the wildest things to be relevant. But respect is the greatest thing you can have'
multiple versions of content creator KSI sat in a football stadium stand
Community

KSI: 'People do the wildest things to be relevant. But respect is the greatest thing you can have'

Meet the homeless people living in hotel rooms miles from their home towns: 'It took its toll'
Miracle who was homeless and lived out of area in temporary accommodation
Housing

Meet the homeless people living in hotel rooms miles from their home towns: 'It took its toll'

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'
Tim Campbell
PM For The PM

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'

'Disabled pensioners are given less help just when we need it most'
Pensioners with one walking with a walking stick
Letters

'Disabled pensioners are given less help just when we need it most'

Inside the Big Issue: KSI's got talent
Big Issue cover 1737 featuring multiple photos of KSI
Behind the scenes

Inside the Big Issue: KSI's got talent

A new Bhopal disaster play asks whose lives are considered expendable in the pursuit of profit?
Linnea Berthelsen in Darkling, a play about the Bhopal disaster
Theatre

A new Bhopal disaster play asks whose lives are considered expendable in the pursuit of profit?

Screenwriter Andrew Davies: 'I didn't mind people saying I sexed up Pride & Prejudice'
Andrew Davies
Letter To My Younger Self

Screenwriter Andrew Davies: 'I didn't mind people saying I sexed up Pride & Prejudice'

How a British man was pulled into modern slavery working at a food court in the heart of London
An illystration of people walking in a line to illustrate modern slavery
Modern slavery

How a British man was pulled into modern slavery working at a food court in the heart of London

It’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the world. So why are we so lonely?
A man looking at a phone
Opinion

It’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the world. So why are we so lonely?

Veteran and double amputee Rick Clement turns to YouTube to open up countryside to wheelchair users
Rick Clement with his dog in the UK countryside
Environment

Veteran and double amputee Rick Clement turns to YouTube to open up countryside to wheelchair users

Influencers are using smart glasses to film homeless people. It's exploiting people for views
An illustration of smart glasses in Orwellian style
Technology

Influencers are using smart glasses to film homeless people. It's exploiting people for views

What are data centres? And do we even need them?
Campaigners holding a banner reading 'Save Brick Lane'
Technology

What are data centres? And do we even need them?

'I still have concerns about the Timms Review of PIP. Will mental health be protected?'
DWP minister Stephen Timms
Letters

'I still have concerns about the Timms Review of PIP. Will mental health be protected?'

AI is increasingly being used on listings for homes to rent. Is it acceptable or misleading?
The reality vs AI enhancement
Housing

AI is increasingly being used on listings for homes to rent. Is it acceptable or misleading?

Ilkeston Big Issue vendor James Allerton: 'My dog is like a son to me'
Ilkeston Big Issue vendor James Allerton
Homelessness

Ilkeston Big Issue vendor James Allerton: 'My dog is like a son to me'

The AI-induced apocalypse could be nearing. Why not chat to a Big Issue vendor instead of a bot?
London Big Issue vendor Simon Denis
Editorial

The AI-induced apocalypse could be nearing. Why not chat to a Big Issue vendor instead of a bot?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Inside the Big Issue: Smart glasses on the streets
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Smart glasses on the streets

Lisa Maffia: 'To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t'
Lisa Maffia in the Capital Xtra studio
Letter To My Younger Self

Lisa Maffia: 'To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t'

How Big Issue came up from the streets, 35 years on: ‘It was the most chaotic, beautiful madness’ 
a montage showing 35 years of the Big Issue
Big Issue 35

How Big Issue came up from the streets, 35 years on: ‘It was the most chaotic, beautiful madness’ 

What it's like to sell the Big Issue magazine for 35 years: 'We’re part of a British institution'
Big Issue at 35

What it's like to sell the Big Issue magazine for 35 years: 'We’re part of a British institution'