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TV star AJ Odudu on why life can be 'humbling' and how we can all restore hope
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TV star AJ Odudu on why life can be 'humbling' and how we can all restore hope

Drifting across Europe in pursuit of my lost, wild twin
Books

Drifting across Europe in pursuit of my lost, wild twin

Joker: Folie à Deux says nothing meaningful about living with mental illness
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck (aka Joker) and Lady Gaga as Harley ‘Lee’ Quinn in Folie à Deux
Film

Joker: Folie à Deux says nothing meaningful about living with mental illness

Romeo & Seahorse by Nikolaj Tange Lange review – gayness throbs through vein and artery
Books

Romeo & Seahorse by Nikolaj Tange Lange review – gayness throbs through vein and artery

This is the first thing I would do to finally end poverty
John Bird

This is the first thing I would do to finally end poverty

Rising music star Henry Moodie: 'Andrew Tate shows how dangerous social media can be'
Henry Moodie
Music

Rising music star Henry Moodie: 'Andrew Tate shows how dangerous social media can be'

Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda review – Mexico's gritty underbelly, as told by women
Books

Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda review – Mexico's gritty underbelly, as told by women

Sex, drugs and Bloomberg terminals: How Industry highlights the 'crony chumocracy' of Tory rule
TV

Sex, drugs and Bloomberg terminals: How Industry highlights the 'crony chumocracy' of Tory rule

Far-right, nationalist football hooligans don't realise who the real enemy is
Sam Diss

Far-right, nationalist football hooligans don't realise who the real enemy is

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'
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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

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
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