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Changemakers 2026

Introducing the Big Issue 100 Changemakers of 2026

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Letters

Letters: A free bus pass for homeless kids is good, but wouldn’t a permanent home be better?

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Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Meet our 2026 Changemakers

Books

Adoption is like ethnicity. It arrives as a plot point before we enter the story

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Art

Are Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir the most-seen but least-known artists in the UK?

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Letter To My Younger Self

Motorbike racer and TV presenter Guy Martin: ‘I’m 44 and I’ve never voted once’

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Sam Delaney

Me, my grown-up daughter, and a night out with Take That

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Top 5

Top 5 landmark LGBTQ novels, chosen by cultural critic Kaye Mitchell

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Film

Swooning over Heathcliff? Let’s not forget, he’s a really terrible landlord

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Film

The President’s Cake review: a surprisingly sweet depiction of life under an uncaring regime

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Art

Artist Exhibit69 on new exhibition for Jealous Gallery and Big Issue: ‘It’s a full-circle moment’

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John Bird

I got a copy of the Beveridge Report for my 80th birthday. Every government minister should read it

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Interview

Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler: ‘It’s a great act of love to look at a book with your child’

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Books

Box of Delights by Richard Marson review: a celebration for a lost epoch of BBC children’s TV

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Review

John Candy: A Life in Comedy by Paul Myers review: a workmanlike yet touchingly sincere biography

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Paul McNamee

Reform’s pints promise is really talking about British identity. Labour should take note

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Spring cover competition

How to enter Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition for 2026

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