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Inside the Big Issue: AJ Odudu is watching you
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: AJ Odudu is watching you

Saddling poorer students with a lifelong debt makes absolutely no sense
Paul McNamee

Saddling poorer students with a lifelong debt makes absolutely no sense

Letters: I'm a pensioner and I agree with cutting winter fuel payments – I don't need it
Letters

Letters: I'm a pensioner and I agree with cutting winter fuel payments – I don't need it

AJ Odudu: 'I knew we were working class. I shared the top bunk with my younger sister for years'
Exclusive

AJ Odudu: 'I knew we were working class. I shared the top bunk with my younger sister for years'

It turns out Jane Austen was a secret radical all along
Literature

It turns out Jane Austen was a secret radical all along

Actor Adam Pearson: 'I wake up every morning, let the universe kick my arse and then carry on'
Adam Pearson in A Different Man
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Adam Pearson: 'I wake up every morning, let the universe kick my arse and then carry on'

100 students die by suicide at university each year. These parents are fighting to change that
Mental health

100 students die by suicide at university each year. These parents are fighting to change that

How 'social supermarkets' offer hope and dignity for people facing hunger
food banks/ rising costs
Caroline Moraes

How 'social supermarkets' offer hope and dignity for people facing hunger

Top 5 stories inspired by stone circles, chosen by YA author Liz Hyder
Standing stones on the Isle of Lewis
Books

Top 5 stories inspired by stone circles, chosen by YA author Liz Hyder

Couples Therapy is watch-through-your-fingers TV at its best – it's impossible to look away
Couples Therapy
Lucy Sweet

Couples Therapy is watch-through-your-fingers TV at its best – it's impossible to look away

The 'right to switch off' law will be a litmus test for Labour's plans for workers' rights
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner
Jack Kellam

The 'right to switch off' law will be a litmus test for Labour's plans for workers' rights

Will Ferrell takes a crash course in trans advocacy in new Netflix doc Will & Harper
Will Ferrell and Harper Steele
Film

Will Ferrell takes a crash course in trans advocacy in new Netflix doc Will & Harper

How Everton football club is easing strain on the NHS by taking on heart health
Former Everton midfielder and club ambassador Graham Stuart receives his breathlessness test at the Everton in the Community hub
Health

How Everton football club is easing strain on the NHS by taking on heart health

My Old Ass review – a sweet and cathartic coming-of-ages movie with a twist
Elliott (Maisy Stella, left) with her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza).
Film

My Old Ass review – a sweet and cathartic coming-of-ages movie with a twist

Brassic writer Danny Brocklehurst on Thatcher, bull semen and why TV needs working-class people
Danny Brocklehurst

Brassic writer Danny Brocklehurst on Thatcher, bull semen and why TV needs working-class people

Home Kitchen: Inside the world's first fine-dining restaurant staffed by homeless chefs
Homelessness

Home Kitchen: Inside the world's first fine-dining restaurant staffed by homeless chefs

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Hooray Henry! BBC Proms embraces Mancini magic
The BBC Concert Orchestra
Music

Hooray Henry! BBC Proms embraces Mancini magic

We want to end poverty for good with Poverty Zero law. Here's how you can help us
Poverty Zero

We want to end poverty for good with Poverty Zero law. Here's how you can help us

Art the hard way: The role of art in liberation and the transforming power of creation
John Bird

Art the hard way: The role of art in liberation and the transforming power of creation

The Happiness of Dogs by Mark Rowlands review – learning from our pets
Books

The Happiness of Dogs by Mark Rowlands review – learning from our pets

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