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.

Treasure island

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The influence of think tanks and Keir Starmer’s next great idea

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITOR’S LETTER • A remote outlook

YOUR LETTERS

As Trump and Putin bargain over Ukraine, this is what life is like for the displaced, three years on from the Russian invasion

‘Nuclear weapons must not coexist with humanity’ • Jiro Hamasumi (left) is the assistant secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo. The organisation, formed in 1956, is made up of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to campaign for nuclear disarmament. Hamasumi tells Big Issue their work will not be done until there are zero nuclear weapons.

The shocking true story of a poisoning cover-up and the woman who fought back

THE BLOOD HOUND GANG • Meet the extremely good boy who saved 20 lives while barely lifting a paw. Inside the world of doggy blood donation

JOHN SHEEHY

Letter to My Younger Self TWIGGY • Modelling was off limits when the girl named Leslie Hornby was growing up, until she was thrust into the spotlight by a series of incredible coincidences

Books

Finding treasure among cosmic debris

A lifeline behind bars

‘I HAVE THE SUSPICION WE DON’T HAVE TO WORK AS MUCH AND GET PAID AS LITTLE’

‘PIGS ALL HAVE THEIR OWN CHARACTER. SAME WITH THE TURKEYS’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

100 years of a French firebrand

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Marks & Spencer, Dunblane Tuesday-Thursday 11am-5pm