The Big Issue

The Big Issue is one of Britain’s leading news and cultural magazines. Every week’s edition is packed full of original takes on the biggest issues of the day as well as interviews with the most significant figures in politics and entertainment. The Big Issue was founded 1991 to give people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to earn their own income. We continue to support hundreds of vendors across the UK and all proceeds from sales go to help anyone wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.

New beginnings

THE DISPATCH

YOUR LETTERS

An epic task ahead

The Big Issue

We don’t need golf club bombast – we’re already in the rough

Dame Elaine Paige • The singer and actress’s early Centre Court dreams were crushed, but the West End was calling for the musical ace

Burnham’s blueprint for success

Pitching in

Could Manchesterism pull the UK out of its rut?

Inside Andy Burnham’s housing agenda • The new man at No 10 has already told us his housing plans. Here’s how it could tackle homelessness and upset Donald Trump

The big issues to tackle in the first 100 days

Big ideas Burnham could make a reality • “That’s what this new era is going to be all about: a sense of hope, of possibility, that things are achievable that you might not have thought were before,” said Andy Burnham when making his case to be prime minister. Here are two ideas that are traditionally unpalatable in Westminster that the new PM may opt to advance

Clicked to the kerb?

Prime ministers now last as long as Premier League managers. Why? • Since Gordon Brown, all but one of our prime ministers have been turfed out mid-term. Is the UK becoming the political equivalent of Watford FC?

The Lake

Learning to love the things left behind

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Top of the pips

On the Mersey beat • Invisible Cities trains people affected by homelessness as walking tour guides, giving visitors a chance to hear stories beyond the tourist trail. To celebrate the organisation’s 10th anniversary, their guides are giving Big Issue a look at the cities they know well. This week, it’s the turn of Danielle in Liverpool.

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

MY PITCH RUSSELL TRIMBY, 48 • JOHN LEWIS, READING 11AM TO 3.30PM, EVERY DAY