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Inside the Big Issue: Daniel Mays takes us behind The Thursday Murder Club

This summer’s biggest British film could well be The Thursday Murder Club. Big Issue ambassador Daniel Mays has the inside track

There’s an old saying: you’ve either been given The Thursday Murder Club for Christmas, bought TheThursday Murder Club for someone for Christmas, or been around a Christmas tree when The Thursday Murder Club is being unwrapped. Pointless fact-dispenser Richard Osman’s stale of septuagenerian sleuths has sold 10 million copies worldwide and has spawned three sequels.

And as it hits the big screen with a star-studded adaptation, Big Issue ambassador Daniel Mays is at the heart of it all to give us the inside track.

In this week’s magazine, Mays gives readers a one-of-a-kind tour through his experience of the film. Acting alongside James Bond, Gandhi, the Queen, Whitney Houston and Miss Babs from Acorn Antiques is one thing – but missing the day Steven Spielberg came to set is another.

Go behind the scenes in this week’s Big Issue magazine.

What else is in this week’s Big Issue?

Inside the mission to feed the UK’s hungry children over the holidays

During the holidays, all that stands between some vulnerable children and hunger is donated food. Big Issue senior reporter Greg Barradale visits a warehouse in Sussex at the heart of getting meals to those who need it, and discovers the fragile web of support.

Glasgow City Council knew this building was dangerous for years. Its collapse left people homeless

Louise Ramsay lived next to a derelict building in Glasgow for years. This July, it collapsed. Big Issue senior reporter Isabella McRae tells the story of how Ramsay was plunged into homelessness – and how Glasgow City Council knew the building was dangerous.

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Welcome to the TikTokification of politics

When a government minister uses the media to tell the public about a new decision they’ve made, it’s traditionally been a closed shop, a “media round” of traditional TV broadcasters.

But this month, home secretary Yvette Cooper sat down for interviews with a difference: they were with social media accounts. It’s a portent of something new, writes Big Issue deputy digital editor Sophia Alexandra Hall, as politics meets younger voters where they are.

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