This week’s edition of Big Issue is designed to get your creative juices flowing. There’s a lot squeezed in; from smashing plates to LEGO interpretations of homelessness, pieces by Professor Daisy Fancourt and Andy Burnham, all celebrate the amazing power of creativity.
Thanks to those who have curated this special edition, especially Anna Woolf, Victoria Hume, Matt Peacock and, of course, David Shrigley for the delicious cover. This is also an interactive magazine – follow steps to make a collage and colour in a lotus flower – and show us your results!
What else is in this week’s Big Issue?
The ‘rent-to-rent’ housing model is driving up market rates
Middle-man estate agency firms are being paid millions in public money every month to house homeless families in London, research by Big Issue has found.
Keeley Hawes: The fun of playing a loved-up nun
If you didn’t have ‘a nun and a priest fall in love in a new drama by Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’ on your 2026 TV bingo card, you are not alone. But Falling is that drama. What’s more, it’s a beautiful, fragile love story with a social conscience and deep humanity, told with supreme skill and maximum empathy by a cast led by Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu.
There are enough homeless kids to fill Wembley twice over
The number of children growing up in temporary accommodation has been an escalating crisis in recent years – but new statistics in England reveal the staggering scale of the problem.
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