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Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break

Lenny Rush: 'I cannot be farting in front of Gary Oldman. That can't be happening'
Lenny Rush as Valentine in The Reluctant Vampire
Interview

Lenny Rush: 'I cannot be farting in front of Gary Oldman. That can't be happening'

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 
Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Hoetjes in Tenzing
Film

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 

Lush co-founder Mark Constantine: 'I was homeless. I spent a lot of my time scared'
Lush co-founder Mark Constantine
Letter To My Younger Self

Lush co-founder Mark Constantine: 'I was homeless. I spent a lot of my time scared'

An academic put trackers on homeless people to see what they could learn. Here's what they did next
University of Roehampton lead researcher Dr Melissa Jogie
Homelessness

An academic put trackers on homeless people to see what they could learn. Here's what they did next

There's a new grant to help musicians build sustainable careers. But there's a catch
A vinyl record next to a number of record sleeves on a shelf
Music

There's a new grant to help musicians build sustainable careers. But there's a catch

There is a taboo around periods and homelessness. It's leaving women sleeping rough on the streets
A homeless women pictured going behind the bins to get some privacy while on her period
Homelessness

There is a taboo around periods and homelessness. It's leaving women sleeping rough on the streets

What Britain can learn from other countries about reducing drug deaths
a syringe
Dr Kamalroop Singh

What Britain can learn from other countries about reducing drug deaths

Blue Lights star Andi Osho: 'Right to Buy benefitted my family but the country still feels ramifications'
PM for the PM

Blue Lights star Andi Osho: 'Right to Buy benefitted my family but the country still feels ramifications'

We spend all our resources propping up the poverty emergency. We should be focused on the cure
Some donated cans at the end of a table
John Bird

We spend all our resources propping up the poverty emergency. We should be focused on the cure

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: 'Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system'
Theatre

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: 'Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system'

'I feel a thrill of hope about Andy Burnham's government. I'm not embarrassed to say I cried'
Andy Burnham
Letters

'I feel a thrill of hope about Andy Burnham's government. I'm not embarrassed to say I cried'

How Big Issue is holding Andy Burnham’s government to account on homelessness
Andy Burnham and the homelessness minister Florence Eshalomi
Isabella McRae

How Big Issue is holding Andy Burnham’s government to account on homelessness

Inside the Big Issue: The limitless Lenny Rush
Lenny Rush

Inside the Big Issue: The limitless Lenny Rush

Blindboy: 'If I were prime minister I'd stop billionaires buying political power'
PM For The PM

Blindboy: 'If I were prime minister I'd stop billionaires buying political power'

Aberdeen through the eyes of a former homeless person: 'I showed Prince William around the city'
Invisible Cities tour guide showing a tour group a mural by Sheffield artist Phlegm at Holborn Junction, Aberdeen
Travel

Aberdeen through the eyes of a former homeless person: 'I showed Prince William around the city'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The Lost Children of Tuam: How one woman's fight for justice led to a national reckoning for Ireland
Monica Dolan plays Catherine Corless in The Lost Children of Tuam
Review

The Lost Children of Tuam: How one woman's fight for justice led to a national reckoning for Ireland

Hairy Biker Si King: 'We were both into motorcycles and food. We got on like a house on fire'
Si King of The Hairy Bakers
Letter To My Younger Self

Hairy Biker Si King: 'We were both into motorcycles and food. We got on like a house on fire'

The football food van serving up jobs for out-of-work young people
Stuffed Gourmet Trailers food van outside St Mary's Stadium in Southampton
Food

The football food van serving up jobs for out-of-work young people

Sir Alex Ferguson's dementia playlist: 'Music is one of the best things that can help'
Sir Alex Ferguson signs on for Playlist for Life
Dementia

Sir Alex Ferguson's dementia playlist: 'Music is one of the best things that can help'