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'Music is very close to my soul': Ex-Big Issue seller Stephen Woodhouse on cycling across Europe and recording his debut album
Poorest Tourist, aka Stephen Woodhouse, standing on a beach playing a guitar
Music

'Music is very close to my soul': Ex-Big Issue seller Stephen Woodhouse on cycling across Europe and recording his debut album

Ros Atkins and the art of explanation: 'Understanding our world can feel difficult'
Ros Atkins
Interview

Ros Atkins and the art of explanation: 'Understanding our world can feel difficult'

Eminem, Ramaswamy, and the slim pickings from shady politicians
Vivek Ramaswamy
Paul McNamee

Eminem, Ramaswamy, and the slim pickings from shady politicians

Writing a modern novel: How to compete with the tyranny of the new
Composite illustration of a person screaming
Literature

Writing a modern novel: How to compete with the tyranny of the new

Top 5 books about Einstein, selected by Samuel Graydon
Albert Einstein in black and white
recommended

Top 5 books about Einstein, selected by Samuel Graydon

Life was tough for the young Jax Jones. Then he found music
Jax Jones
opinion

Life was tough for the young Jax Jones. Then he found music

Lazy City by Rachel Connolly review: A mesmerising portrait of modern Belfast
Lazy City by Rachel Connolly book cover
Review

Lazy City by Rachel Connolly review: A mesmerising portrait of modern Belfast

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright review: Perfect prose illuminates family chronicle
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright book cover
family chronicle

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright review: Perfect prose illuminates family chronicle

Pharoah Sanders - discovering an elusive jazz gem
Pharoah Sanders in a white hat and shirt
Jazz

Pharoah Sanders - discovering an elusive jazz gem

Funding cuts in music education will destroy our cultural landscape
Illustration of a student playing the saxophone
Education

Funding cuts in music education will destroy our cultural landscape

Teachers are too busy doing their jobs to give airtime to the culture wars
Illustration showing devices used in the spread of culture wars
Education

Teachers are too busy doing their jobs to give airtime to the culture wars

Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest
Brassic FM - a DJ and a woman dancing
opinion

Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest

'When you read Maigret you feel good. You make peace with that unsettling aspect of humanity'
Gérard Depardieu in Maigret
Interview

'When you read Maigret you feel good. You make peace with that unsettling aspect of humanity'

Student loans: This generation is getting a raw deal
Illustration of a student struggling while carrying a heavy coin
Education

Student loans: This generation is getting a raw deal

Are qualifications from British schools fit for purpose?
Illustration depicting qualifications and certificates
Education

Are qualifications from British schools fit for purpose?

What will AI mean for education?
Illustration of a robot teacher
Education

What will AI mean for education?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Harold Wilson's failure to reform the country is why Keir Starmer needs to listen to history 
Harold Wilson
John Bird

Harold Wilson's failure to reform the country is why Keir Starmer needs to listen to history 

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: 'Black Lives Matter transformed the world'
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah looks into the camera with his hands on his face
Interview

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: 'Black Lives Matter transformed the world'

'We are paying for something we didn't get': The students taking their universities to court
Illustration of students protesting
Education

'We are paying for something we didn't get': The students taking their universities to court

If we want the UK to be an education powerhouse, we must abandon old-school thinking
Illustration of items to do with education: a brain, a lightbulb, an apple, a guitar
Paul McNamee

If we want the UK to be an education powerhouse, we must abandon old-school thinking

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