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Welcome to Big Issue's Big Community
Big Community

Welcome to Big Issue's Big Community

Letters: The winter fuel payment cut confirms my worst suspicions about Labour
Letters

Letters: The winter fuel payment cut confirms my worst suspicions about Labour

Inside the Big Issue: Time for change
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Time for change

'Poverty is out of control': Over half of Brits say Labour not doing enough to help people in poverty
Poverty

'Poverty is out of control': Over half of Brits say Labour not doing enough to help people in poverty

A Kamala Harris win could make her the first TikTok president
Kamala Harris
Politics

A Kamala Harris win could make her the first TikTok president

Weather forecasts are more important than ever. Here's the science behind them
Michael Fish illustration
Weather

Weather forecasts are more important than ever. Here's the science behind them

Nadhim Zahawi: 'The line between being on the street and being chancellor is very, very slim'
Nadim Zahawi
Letter to my Younger Self

Nadhim Zahawi: 'The line between being on the street and being chancellor is very, very slim'

Top 5 spooky books for Halloween, chosen by children's author Swapna Haddow
Haunted house
Books

Top 5 spooky books for Halloween, chosen by children's author Swapna Haddow

Mo Gilligan on the motivational effect of Nike Air Max trainers
Mo Gilligan
Podcasts

Mo Gilligan on the motivational effect of Nike Air Max trainers

How running with my son taught me that life really isn't a race
Runners for Sam Delaney column
Sam Delaney

How running with my son taught me that life really isn't a race

Tom Grennan on faith, helping people and paying his parents' mortgage with Gillette song money
Tom Grennan
Tom Grennan

Tom Grennan on faith, helping people and paying his parents' mortgage with Gillette song money

The Gilded Age star Carrie Coon: 'We don't have to be a capitalist machine'
Carrie Coon
Film

The Gilded Age star Carrie Coon: 'We don't have to be a capitalist machine'

Get ready, Newcastle: the Big Issue Community Roadshow is coming to town
Big Community

Get ready, Newcastle: the Big Issue Community Roadshow is coming to town

How David Bowie's time spent in Berlin became the stuff of myth and legend
David Bowie onstage in Berlin in 1978
Music

How David Bowie's time spent in Berlin became the stuff of myth and legend

'It's art for people': This one-man kayak project shows the beauty of slowing down
Lying down flat in a kayak offers a rarely seen view of the UK’s waterways
Art

'It's art for people': This one-man kayak project shows the beauty of slowing down

Street-Level Superstar by Will Hodgkinson review – a touching monument to a cult pop enigma
Street Level Superstar by Will Hodgkinson cover
Books

Street-Level Superstar by Will Hodgkinson review – a touching monument to a cult pop enigma

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain by William and Jim Reid review – brotherly love
Never Understood by The Jesus and Mary Chain
Books

Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain by William and Jim Reid review – brotherly love

I've never known a government to renege on election promises as quickly as this one
John Bird

I've never known a government to renege on election promises as quickly as this one

In Camera review – a potent comment on race and identity in the film industry
Nabhaan Rizwan as Aden in the movie In Camera
Film

In Camera review – a potent comment on race and identity in the film industry

Nadhim Zahawi: 'We're supposed to be the party of government, not some mafiosi'
Former politician Nadhim Zahawi
Politics

Nadhim Zahawi: 'We're supposed to be the party of government, not some mafiosi'