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  • The Big Issue9 min readPoverty & Homelessness
    The Dispatch
    Asylum seeker still waiting for a Home Office decision after 16 years trapped in limbo: ‘It’s degrading and humiliating’ By Greg BarradaleBig Issue senior reporter An asylum seeker has waited 16 years for a decision on their claim, the longest wait
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    A Look Back (not In Anger) At My Conversation With Noel
    I was a PhD student, he the songwriter of the nation’s fave pop combo, marrying Beatles-level tunefulness with Lydon-esque punk swagger and a good turn of phrase in his lyrics (best of the bunch being “sniffing in a tissue, selling the Big Issue”). W
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    My Pitch
    CLAUDE WILLIAMS, 63 I’m struggling a bit at the minute but it’s all good. Everything happens for a reason. I’ve been selling the Big Issue about 10 weeks this time but I’ve sold the magazine before. I started because: 1. I needed some money, 2. I ne
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    Jared Harris
    When I was 16 I was in boarding school, preoccupied with passing my A levels so I could get the hell out of school. I was very interested in sports – football and boxing. And trying to find my friend group, and trying to figure out where I was with t
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    What Happens When You Take A Flat Earther To The Edge Of The World?
    Welcome to the edge. This is Brimstone Head on Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Watch your step. According to some, this very spot is poised precariously on the edge of our flat Earth. For his latest book, professional mischief-maker turned travel writer D
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    Academics Put Trackers On Homeless People. This Is What They Learned
    People experiencing homelessness wore trackers on the streets of London for three months as part of an innovative study to find out where rough sleepers go in a bid to help them access more support. The study – the first of its kind in the UK – saw a
    The Big Issue1 min readCrime & Violence
    Grenfell: A Catalogue Of Failure
    More than seven years after the fire in June 2017 that killed 72 people, the final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry was published last week. It found that systemic failures by authorities contributed to the tragedy. Sir Martin Moore-Bick, the Inq
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    A Fright To The Finish
    Since publishers have finally recognised horror as a legitimate art form, the genre has become a necessary acquisition for each publishing house. But the lifting of horror to supposed “literary” heights has had detrimental effects, as publishers aimi
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    Bird’s Words
    A rather cheeky article by Matt Rudd appeared in The Sunday Times recently. The touch of the piece was light and kindly, not often to be found in major newspapers. It challenged the gloom perpetrated by Keir Starmer in what has become quickly known a
    The Big Issue3 min read
    Robin Ince Is On The Road
    From the stage at Towersey Festival, the planes fly. I have three helpers, Islay, Trystan and Eleanor (I am guessing five, seven and 34 years old). When I finish reading a poem, I hand them paper copies and they fold them up with great care and they
    The Big Issue3 min read
    What Unpicking The Atomic Mindset Can Do For Us
    On 17 October 1956, a significant milestone was marked for both the newly established nuclear industry and for British national pride. At 12.16pm, in the presence of numerous dignitaries and the press, Queen Elizabeth II ceremonially pulled a lever,
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    The Big Issue
    FOUNDERSJohn Bird and Gordon Roddick GROUP CHAIRNigel Kershaw GROUP CEOPaul Cheal MANAGING DIRECTORRussell Blackman EDITORIAL & PRODUCTIONEditor Paul McNameeArt director Mark NeilDeputy editor Steven MacKenzieDigital editor Ryan ButcherDeputy digital
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    ‘I Feel Like I Met Abby At Exactly The Right Time’
    It’s guaranteed to be a runaway smash. New BBC thrill ride Nightsleeper is set onboard a Glasgow to London overnight train that’s electronically hijacked (hackjacked) by an entity known only as ‘Driver’. The consequences of disaster would be huge, es
    The Big Issue3 min read
    Letters
    The Big Issue, 2nd floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW [email protected] @bigissue /bigissueUK @bigissueuk @thebigissue The scenes of far-right thuggery were heartbreaking, as it was unleashed on those who need our understanding and su
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    The Label That Keeps Dancing Clever
    Wah Wah 45s, the UK independent record label synonymous with homegrown danceable soul, jazz, funk, dub, disco and afrobeat, turns 25 this month. It seems fitting that it began life on the dancefloor. “Wah Wah began as a club night in the early ’90s,
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    Get Ready For The Great Resignation 2.0
    Whatever happened to the Great Resignation? That remarkable spring in 2022 when 442,000 people in the UK handed in their notice and flocked to pastures new. It was a record number and still is. But it’s set to be broken. Research shows that we’re on
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    Positive Exposure
    There aren’t many jokes in Civil War, writer-director Alex Garland’s recent unsettling movie about a near-future USA fracturing into armed conflict. But there is one laugh in an early scene when veteran war photographer Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) is b
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    Sad Eyes
    Originally from Malaysia, Sohanpal left a post-9/11 United States for the UK and built a successful career. But nearly 20 years later, he found himself at the heart of the Home Office’s “hostile environment” tactics against asylum seekers and was pus
    The Big Issue4 min readPoverty & Homelessness
    Six Million People In The UK Are Going Without Essentials Like Fridges Or Washing Machines Because They Can’t Afford Them. But A Cycle Of Change Is Coming
    Gail Porter was one of the most famous faces of the 1990s. The Scottish presenter started out on kids’ TV before becoming a staple of the schedules, with huge tabloid interest too. Then, after developing alopecia in 2005, and experiencing mental heal
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    A Trip Down The Rabbit Hole
    Whatever you call it – misinformation, fake news, alternative facts, or any one of a dozen other names – bad information is unavoidable in our modern media landscape. Every day there is a new dodgy rumour, a faked image designed to inflame hate, an A
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    Puzzles
    1. ‘Care of’ written twice on envelope (6)4. Pole’s headgear? (6)9. It was automatic for awful boor with nervous twitch (7)10. Fold left in twisted tape (5)11. One from Zurich, say, following underground timekeeper (9)12. Rubbishy part of protocol? (
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    Editor’s Letter
    It’s not a surprise. There is a depressing metronomic regularity to the news, but it’s not a surprise. Libraries are in crisis. And the country greets the details with a polite frown and a shrug. Because, you know, nobody ever died because of a libra
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    Gary Lightbody
    Sixteen was an interesting age for me, because it was the first year that I knew I wanted to make music. I hadn’t actually told anybody about it yet. Nirvana had just blown my mind – I’d seen them live in 1992 in Belfast. So I was pretty certain that
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    Ethical Consumers
    As a writer and a reader I’ve never really understood the concept of ‘genres’ in fiction. It has always felt to me as being only the concern of publishers and booksellers, something that lets them market a book in a particular way. But I’ve always be
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    Lucy Sweet Is On The Verge
    In my capacity as a TV reviewer, I should probably be writing about season three of The Bear, or telling you about some amazing, obscure new A24 show that you can only watch if you rig your wifi router with a paper clip and a bit of tinfoil. I’m sorr
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    Bleeding Love
    “I was going through a breakup,” says long-time regular Street Art contributor Vallely of the inspiration for this artwork. “That’s why it’s called Bleeding Love. I wanted to use strong colours.” Vallely’s colourful artworks are her way of helping to
    The Big Issue4 min read
    Film
    Over the last nine weeks, we have showcased a groundbreaking series of short films that change the narrative on homelessness. The More Than One Story series explored the range of reasons people can find themselves without a safe, secure or permanent
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    The Dispatch
    By Liam GeraghtyBig Issue Deputy Digital Editor Prime minister Keir Starmer has warned October’s Budget will be “painful” and called on the country to “accept short-term pain for long-term good” after criticising the state of the nation inherited fro
    The Big Issue1 min read
    The Big Issue
    FOUNDERS John Bird and Gordon Roddick GROUP CHAIR Nigel Kershaw GROUP CEO Paul Cheal MANAGING DIRECTOR Russell Blackman EDITORIAL & PRODUCTIONEditor Paul McNameeArt director Mark NeilDeputy editor Steven MacKenzieDigital editor Ryan ButcherDep
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    ‘I’m the Last of The lucky generation’
    Sir Ian McKellen holds up his right arm to show a red sore spot, then taps the top of his spine. “I fractured my wrist, which is getting better. I chipped my vertebrae up here, which seems to be OK,” he says. On 17 June, he fell from the stage of the

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