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Inside the Big Issue: Wicked Ways
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Wicked Ways

Wicked’s director Jon M Chu talks to the Big Issue about the spellbinding movie out this month. Plus much, much more

1 in 5 Brits say they’ve sofa surfed amid record levels of homelessness heading into Christmas
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1 in 5 Brits say they’ve sofa surfed amid record levels of homelessness heading into Christmas

In this year’s Christmas ad, Big Issue is raising awareness of the many complex reasons why people fall into homelessness

Inside the Big Issue: Fearless Chris McCausland
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Fearless Chris McCausland

Dying on a comedy stage is not nearly as scary as dancing the Foxtrot on national television, says stand-up Chris McCausland

This Big Issue vendor is donating his earnings to charity for Remembrance Day: ‘Please buy a magazine’
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This Big Issue vendor is donating his earnings to charity for Remembrance Day: ‘Please buy a magazine’

Inside the Big Issue: Be more Paddington
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Be more Paddington

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Inside the Big Issue: How we can fix the housing crisis
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Inside the Big Issue: How we can fix the housing crisis

No room for ‘bullshit’ in solution to homelessness, Prince William told in new documentary
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No room for ‘bullshit’ in solution to homelessness, Prince William told in new documentary

Dear Keir Starmer – no one should be sleeping on cardboard under bridges in a country this rich
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Dear Keir Starmer – no one should be sleeping on cardboard under bridges in a country this rich

Danny Dyer on fame, therapy and working-class people in politics: ‘We need a f**king leader’
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Danny Dyer on fame, therapy and working-class people in politics: ‘We need a f**king leader’

Husband and wife Big Issue vendors: ‘Just treat people how you want to be treated’
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Husband and wife Big Issue vendors: ‘Just treat people how you want to be treated’

Danny Dyer: ‘I don’t trust Keir Starmer. Why Angela Rayner’s not leading things I don’t know’
Danny Dyer

Danny Dyer: ‘I don’t trust Keir Starmer. Why Angela Rayner’s not leading things I don’t know’

Former vendor Earl John Charlton returns to his old pitch as Big Issue arrives in Newcastle
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Former vendor Earl John Charlton returns to his old pitch as Big Issue arrives in Newcastle

Waterloo Road star James Baxter to join the Big Issue’s Big Debate in Newcastle
Big Debate

Waterloo Road star James Baxter to join the Big Issue’s Big Debate in Newcastle

Inside the Big Issue: Time for change
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Time for change

Inside the Big Issue: Sir Ian McKellen on recovery, rights and finding fulfilment
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Sir Ian McKellen on recovery, rights and finding fulfilment

Letters: Water bosses should be made to do Cersei’s ‘walk of shame’ from Game of Thrones
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Letters: Water bosses should be made to do Cersei’s ‘walk of shame’ from Game of Thrones

‘It was like the place was waiting for me’: Three Big Issue vendors went to the Lake District – and were transformed
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‘It was like the place was waiting for me’: Three Big Issue vendors went to the Lake District – and were transformed

Big Issue vendors left feeling anxious, frightened and ‘scared to go out’ in wake of UK riots
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Big Issue vendors left feeling anxious, frightened and ‘scared to go out’ in wake of UK riots

Truro Big Issue vendor raises £1,000 for dog home that helped him get new puppy
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Truro Big Issue vendor raises £1,000 for dog home that helped him get new puppy

How many times have we walked by people, men and women, lying on the streets?
Homelessness

How many times have we walked by people, men and women, lying on the streets?

Prince William insists it’s possible to end homelessness as Homewards project turns one
Homelessness

Prince William insists it’s possible to end homelessness as Homewards project turns one

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Inside the Big Issue: The Museum of Homelessness
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The Museum of Homelessness

Letters: I’m autistic and the DWP’s benefit reforms make me very scared for the future
Letters

Letters: I’m autistic and the DWP’s benefit reforms make me very scared for the future

Letters: DWP wants to make it as hard as possible to look after my disabled relatives
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Letters: DWP wants to make it as hard as possible to look after my disabled relatives

Artists pays tribute to Big Issue vendors in thought-provoking project: ‘Ordinary moments go unnoticed’
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Artists pays tribute to Big Issue vendors in thought-provoking project: ‘Ordinary moments go unnoticed’