The Big Issue

The Big Issue is one of Britain’s leading news and cultural magazines. Every week’s edition is packed full of original takes on the biggest issues of the day as well as interviews with the most significant figures in politics and entertainment. The Big Issue was founded 1991 to give people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to earn their own income. We continue to support hundreds of vendors across the UK and all proceeds from sales go to help anyone wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.

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Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: the ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted

Disabled Big Issue vendor Jason has been waiting 21 years for an accessible home. There are millions just like him

‘Having an accessible house has been key to my independence’

THIS IS WHAT THE FUTURE OF BUILDING DESIGN LOOKS LIKE • In 2023, architecture trailblazer Muyiwa Oki became the youngest and the first black RIBA president. As his spell in charge comes to an end, he’s hoping his legacy will be a green one

The man who’s biking America • Tony Adams began cycling in 1995, tasked by his dying father with travelling from Oregon to Las Vegas without a car to find his estranged brother. He has been traversing America ever since. Giles Clasen from US street paper Denver Voice is hoping to track him down

‘WE HAVEN’T HAD LONG ENOUGH TO EVOLVE AND RESPOND TO FARMING LET ALONE THE IPHONE’

FANTASTIC VOYAGE • In 2023, almost two centuries after Darwin wrote his theory of evolution on a voyage on the Beagle, a ship set sail to retrace his journey. It arrived back in Falmouth last month. Larissa Clark from the Darwin200 project tells us how it went

‘The teenage Ozzy would never believe, not in a million years, he could have the life I’ve had’ • Last month saw the death of Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and metal legend. The Prince of Darkness passed away aged 76, just 17 days after his final live show, Back to the Beginning, when he performed both solo and with Black Sabbath in his native Birmingham. Ozzy delivered a memorable Letter to my Younger Self interview back in 2014. As a fitting tribute, we reprint his words here.

BURNING CITY By Patrizia

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A healthy insight

Film

Polmont Youth Theatre ‘IT TAKES REAL COURAGE TO STEP ONTO THAT STAGE’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

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