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The roots of NHS decay can’t be hidden by soundbite veneers
Paul McNamee

The roots of NHS decay can’t be hidden by soundbite veneers

How privatisation of foster care is turning vulnerable children into money-making commodities
Care

How privatisation of foster care is turning vulnerable children into money-making commodities

Letters: Our 20-year tax fight with HMRC made us ill
Letters

Letters: Our 20-year tax fight with HMRC made us ill

Breathtaking and The Way: These are the next Mr Bates-style TV dramas poised to shake-up Britain
TV

Breathtaking and The Way: These are the next Mr Bates-style TV dramas poised to shake-up Britain

Without The Body Shop, there’d have been no Big Issue
John Bird

Without The Body Shop, there’d have been no Big Issue

Paloma Faith: ‘How many left-wing people like me get to be a national treasure? None’
Music

Paloma Faith: ‘How many left-wing people like me get to be a national treasure? None’

Happy Valentine’s Day! Now, allow me to ruin it for you…
David Baker

Happy Valentine’s Day! Now, allow me to ruin it for you…

9 LGBTQ+ trailblazers who defined and redefined modern Britain 
LGBTQ+ rights

9 LGBTQ+ trailblazers who defined and redefined modern Britain 

Photographer Dennis Morris on capturing legend Bob Marley – and how the reggae icon changed his life
Photography

Photographer Dennis Morris on capturing legend Bob Marley – and how the reggae icon changed his life

The government’s short-term thinking around poverty is a costly mistake
John Bird

The government’s short-term thinking around poverty is a costly mistake

Inside the Big Issue: Bob Marley and me
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Bob Marley and me

Angela Griffin: ‘For my first year in Coronation Street I kept my job in Burger King’
Letter to my younger self

Angela Griffin: ‘For my first year in Coronation Street I kept my job in Burger King’

Celebrating the career of Yoko Ono – a resilient artist who’s so much more than John Lennon’s wife
Art

Celebrating the career of Yoko Ono – a resilient artist who’s so much more than John Lennon’s wife

I felt thoroughly British as a teen – until I put on a hijab and became visibly Muslim
Nadeine Asbali

I felt thoroughly British as a teen – until I put on a hijab and became visibly Muslim

Top 5 books about getting lost, chosen by travel writer Tom Chesshyre
Books

Top 5 books about getting lost, chosen by travel writer Tom Chesshyre

Michael Winterbottom on new film Shoshana, Israel’s war and how violence makes people ‘take sides’
Film

Michael Winterbottom on new film Shoshana, Israel’s war and how violence makes people ‘take sides’

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To understand economics, pass on the PopCon and read PJ O’Rourke instead
Paul McNamee

To understand economics, pass on the PopCon and read PJ O’Rourke instead

Letters: Let’s oust Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Latin minister for the 18th century
Letters

Letters: Let’s oust Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Latin minister for the 18th century

‘We can 100% end homelessness’: Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son filmmaker’s rousing call to action
Film

‘We can 100% end homelessness’: Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son filmmaker’s rousing call to action

Former Big Issue vendor-turned film star Earl Charlton describes a day in his life
Our vendors

Former Big Issue vendor-turned film star Earl Charlton describes a day in his life