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Christmas on a budget: How to make Bake Off star Sandro Farmhouse's festive cookies
Christmas cookies
Christmas

Christmas on a budget: How to make Bake Off star Sandro Farmhouse's festive cookies

How my pursuit for solutions to our social poverty problems took me to Lowestoft
John Bird and Peter Aldous visit a community in Lowestoft
John Bird

How my pursuit for solutions to our social poverty problems took me to Lowestoft

How the tragic death of a man in an overcrowded flat exposed the dire truth about slumlord Britain
Maddocks House flat after the fire
Maddocks House

How the tragic death of a man in an overcrowded flat exposed the dire truth about slumlord Britain

200,000 people liked a picture of my Christmas tree. It was cool, but brought difficult memories
Christmas tree being decorated
Sophia Alexandra Hall

200,000 people liked a picture of my Christmas tree. It was cool, but brought difficult memories

Inside the Big Issue: Our Christmas Kids Cover Competition winner
Inside the magazine

Inside the Big Issue: Our Christmas Kids Cover Competition winner

Comforting the ill and guiding the blind: These amazing service dogs all have very important jobs
Thunder comforts a patient
Service dogs

Comforting the ill and guiding the blind: These amazing service dogs all have very important jobs

This Is Going to Hurt writer Adam Kay: 'It's vital for people to know that doctors are human'
Adam Kay
Letter to my younger self

This Is Going to Hurt writer Adam Kay: 'It's vital for people to know that doctors are human'

Hits, flops and Kylie Minogue: How NOW That's What I Call Music! endured for 40 long years
Music

Hits, flops and Kylie Minogue: How NOW That's What I Call Music! endured for 40 long years

Hozier on being authentic, Ireland and speaking out for queer youth: 'All I can do is be honest'
Hozier
Music

Hozier on being authentic, Ireland and speaking out for queer youth: 'All I can do is be honest'

Russell T Davies' new Doctor Who will change the landscape of TV. Again
Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday
Darren Scott

Russell T Davies' new Doctor Who will change the landscape of TV. Again

How protest fashion became this year's hottest Christmas gift
Activism

How protest fashion became this year's hottest Christmas gift

Wonka stars Mathew Baynton and Simon Farnaby: 'With the help of others you can change the world'
Timothee Chalamet in Wonka
Film

Wonka stars Mathew Baynton and Simon Farnaby: 'With the help of others you can change the world'

Mrs Brown's Boys could be the anchor we all need this Christmas
Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special
Paul McNamee

Mrs Brown's Boys could be the anchor we all need this Christmas

Artist and poet Chris Bird: My art is an attempt to create hope and beauty in the everyday
Self portrait by Chris Bird
Poetry

Artist and poet Chris Bird: My art is an attempt to create hope and beauty in the everyday

Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson review – gritty, scary, funny and full of heart crime writing
Books

Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson review – gritty, scary, funny and full of heart crime writing

Lame Tories have failed us. Labour must plan to do better
Harold Macmillan at the 1957 Conservative Conference
John Bird

Lame Tories have failed us. Labour must plan to do better

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Gaslight by Femi Kayode review – a powerful evocation of today’s Nigeria
Gaslight by Femi Kayode
Books

Gaslight by Femi Kayode review – a powerful evocation of today’s Nigeria

Behind the till with Olivia Colman at Choose Love's refugee awareness pop-up shop
From left: Dawn O'Porter, Lily James, Pearl Mackie, Olivia Colman, Dermot O'Leary and Jamie Dornan wearing choose love t-shirts
Choose Love

Behind the till with Olivia Colman at Choose Love's refugee awareness pop-up shop

What Monsters Inc can teach us about the Dublin riots – and why we should all be a bit more Sulley
Sulley in Monsters Inc leans over the bed of a child
Paul McNamee

What Monsters Inc can teach us about the Dublin riots – and why we should all be a bit more Sulley

No, Brexit didn't help UK 'take back control' – it made immigration rise. Here's how
Hein de Haas

No, Brexit didn't help UK 'take back control' – it made immigration rise. Here's how