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Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: 'Reading is the world'
Big Issue vendor Andre Rostant
Reader offer

Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: 'Reading is the world'

How World Cup 2026 host cities are offering solutions to homelessness and the housing crisis
AT&T Stadium in Arlington is home of the Dallas Cowboys and will host World Cup 2026 fixtures
World Cup

How World Cup 2026 host cities are offering solutions to homelessness and the housing crisis

Inside the Big Issue: Flick Off!
Big Issue cover 1721. Flick Off with Donald Trump as a Subbuteo player
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Flick Off!

Michael Palin: 'There are moments where you feel a unity in the world. That’s what keeps me going'
Books

Michael Palin: 'There are moments where you feel a unity in the world. That’s what keeps me going'

The Opioid crisis has been turned into an opera
Opera

The Opioid crisis has been turned into an opera

To tackle homophobia and safeguard LGBTQ+ rights we have to address wealth inequality and poverty
Books

To tackle homophobia and safeguard LGBTQ+ rights we have to address wealth inequality and poverty

Victoria Pendleton: 'I thought beating boys at sport would impress them. Now I realise it doesn't'
Victoria Pendleton
Letter To My Younger Self

Victoria Pendleton: 'I thought beating boys at sport would impress them. Now I realise it doesn't'

How Masters Of The Universe star Sam C Wilson went from Big Issue to Castle Grayskull 
Trap Jaw from the film Masters Of The Universe
Film

How Masters Of The Universe star Sam C Wilson went from Big Issue to Castle Grayskull 

Rough sleeping is deadly. We meet the NHS outreach workers trying to save lives on the street
An NHS mural on a pavement
Health

Rough sleeping is deadly. We meet the NHS outreach workers trying to save lives on the street

I'm fighting to protect the puffins because ending poverty and saving the planet is the same cause
John Bird

I'm fighting to protect the puffins because ending poverty and saving the planet is the same cause

Big Issue vendors and their dogs take housing fight to parliament: 'I’d be lost without her'
Big Issue vendor Ian Duff and dog Trigger outside parliament
Housing

Big Issue vendors and their dogs take housing fight to parliament: 'I’d be lost without her'

Letters: It's easy to blame social media for our ills. It's up to us to use it as a force for good
an illustration representing social media
Letters

Letters: It's easy to blame social media for our ills. It's up to us to use it as a force for good

How one remarkable day in Westminster showed the power of the Big Issue to change lives
Steven MacKenzie

How one remarkable day in Westminster showed the power of the Big Issue to change lives

Inside the Big Issue: Vendors and their dogs head to parliament
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Vendors and their dogs head to parliament

‘The people made me a star’: On her 100th birthday, why Marilyn Monroe still matters
Photography

‘The people made me a star’: On her 100th birthday, why Marilyn Monroe still matters

Keir Starmer exclusive: 'There's always that challenge of getting good news out there'
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Politics

Keir Starmer exclusive: 'There's always that challenge of getting good news out there'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Tip Toe creator Russell T Davies: ‘The search for equality has no endgame’
TV

Tip Toe creator Russell T Davies: ‘The search for equality has no endgame’

Michael Spicer: 'I'd make billionaires pay so we don’t have to cut welfare and disability benefits'
PM for the PM

Michael Spicer: 'I'd make billionaires pay so we don’t have to cut welfare and disability benefits'

The rise in antisemitic attacks is racism. It isn't complicated
A placard reading 'Our love is stronger than hate'
Sam Delaney

The rise in antisemitic attacks is racism. It isn't complicated

Roger McGough: 'Poetry is within all of us'
Poet Roger McGough
Poetry

Roger McGough: 'Poetry is within all of us'