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The Big Issue8 min citite
‘This Has Come At The Right Moment In My Life’
John Swinney became Scotland’s First Minister almost by accident. Over the course of his 25-year-plus political career he’s held a bagful of senior government portfolios, including education, finance, deputy first minister and minister for Covid reco
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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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Sam Delaney Is At Home
Can a concert change your life? Yes it can. My first gig was to see a band called Northside (who I thought were the next big thing in 1991 but turned out to be also-rans of indie’s Madchester era). It was at the Town And Country Club in Kentish Town.
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Charlie Cooper ‘I LOVE RURAL FOLKLORE AND THESE WEIRD TRADITIONS’
In 2023, it was reported that there were 4,000 sightings of mythical beasts across the UK. Something is out there. It may not be actual big cats, demon dogs, shy monsters or other apparitions, but a desire to reconnect to the more mysterious side of
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Editor’s Letter
There is a new John Le Carré novel coming. This is cause for much excitement and celebration. It’s not ACTUALLY written by Le Carré. That would be incredible, considering the great man died in 2020. But, in the manner of reimaginings of the work of d
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Far Away In The Kenyan Wilderness, A Bitter Dispute Is Sounding The Alarm For The Future Of The Planet
The Battle for Laikipia follows two communities in Kenya grappling with devastating climate change and their unresolved colonial history. We filmed during a time of extreme hardship, when millions across the Horn of Africa were struggling to cope wit
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A Call To Us All Not To Turn Away
The British-Palestinian novelist Isabella Hammad’s latest, radiant work Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative is a clear-eyed meditation on myth, confrontation and the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Hammad’s major, insightful ess
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Bird’s Words
I had a déjà vu feeling last Tuesday when in a room with a flip-chart trying to define the upcoming MOPPAC – Ministry of Poverty Prevention and Cure. Déjà vu in the sense that I had been there countless times before, most memorably in 1991 when Phil
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Letters
The Big Issue, 2nd floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW letters@bigissue.com @bigissue /bigissueUK @bigissueuk @thebigissue I am prompted to respond to Liam Geraghty’s article [Issue 1631, 02-08 September] and subsequent correspondence concerning ho
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My Creatures
Organised by and for people who have mental health issues, the 12th annual Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition features paintings, drawings, sculptures and more by over 300 artists responding to the theme of In/Visible. It’s the same theme as the 202
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The Dispatch
By Liam GeraghtyBig Issue Deputy Digital Editor Tenants of television star Stephen Mulhern will have their two-year damp and mould nightmare come to an end – thanks to Big Issue. Catchphrase frontman Mulhern is one of the UK’s most popular television
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Danny Dyer Is A Natural Salesman
“Lead the way, André, lead the way. And you get the readies, don’t ya?” the actor says to Big Issue vendor André Rostant as they walk along Charing Cross Road in Central London. Most people passing by are paying little heed to the two men in matching
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‘Care Experienced People Are The Best People To Have In A Workplace. We’re Brilliant!’
Sophie Willan’s got decorators in. The 36-year-old writer, actor and comedian has recently bought her first house and apologises over Zoom as she calls out: “Hiya Pete, I’m in ’ere, do you need me? There’s more coffee if you need it. And milk. Help y
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Orinoco’s Flow Helps Big Issue On The Road
We kicked off the Big Issue Community Roadshow in Newcastle last week with special guests in tow. For one week, all aspects of the Big Issue Group – our journalism, our opportunities for vendors, our social investment arm Big Issue Invest, and our em
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Daniel O’donnell
At 16, I just loved music. I always sang. Anywhere I could get to sing, I would sing. We lived in a very rural part of Ireland, so there was lots of traditional music and ceilidhs. We used to go to them all the time. There was a great sense of commun
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Back Then, When All The Stages Were Bare
Back then, noses had been made illegal. Nor were mouths permitted. Everyone wore a mask. Looking out of a window at those people keeping their distances it was very clear their faces had been censured. As if these were only partial humans that walked
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The Asylum Legal Aid Crisis Is Costing Taxpayers More Than You Think. Here’s Why
Law firms are racking up significant debts while taking on legal aid work for asylum cases – all thanks to a crisis in the legal aid system. As part of our investigation into the pressures on the system, solicitors working with asylum seekers told th
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Puzzles
1.Signify period concurrently (8)5. A grate that’s partly open (4)8. Officer has it by the end of the day, the greater part (8)9. Piece of satire produced from his kitbag (4)11. Stirring sour gin in the melting pot (7)13. Runt I removed from the city
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My Pitch
DANIEL JOHN, 34 Earlsdon High Street, Coventry Tuesday-Saturday, 8am-4pm BIANCA Rootes Grocery Store, University of Warwick, Coventry Tuesday-Friday, 8.30am-4pm (plus Saturday at Jubilee Crescent, Coventry) Tom Grennan’s blockbuster Big Issue busk a
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Love That’s Out Of Time
There is something highly seductive about the idea that we all have a soulmate. The problem is that there could be a million obstacles standing between you and your beloved. Maybe they live on another continent, or work on a nuclear submarine or are
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Ezra Collective Hit The High Notes
Ife Ogunjobi was 10 when he first picked up the trumpet. It was love at first note – but his neighbours were less impressed. “I was a kid, and my mum took me to a performance of Hugh Masekela, a great South Africa trumpet player who has sadly since p
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Escape To The Wild Side
The world’s worst hitchhiker is sleeping under a tree in the woods on the Luxembourg border. He never had any intention of going to Luxembourg and doesn’t even know where it is but hey, that’s all part of the experience. This is what happens when you
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Sex, Drugs And Bloomberg Terminals
If you can bear to look beyond the corporate glamour, hubris, bikinis, raw ambition, coke and blowjobs, Industry is actually a very serious TV programme. “It’s really become about class, and about money and privilege and the intersection of all these
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Editor’s Letter
We are now in the period of parental listlessness. Not all parents, but that percentage whose kids have gone to university, particularly those who wave goodbye to their youngest. It becomes increasingly clear, as bowls – clean bowls! – are where they
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The Dispatch
By Liam GeraghtyDeputy digital editor The right-wing think tank linked to Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget has warned against the UK government bringing in rent controls to curb sky-high private rents – and it’s caused an almighty row. The Institut
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Lessons From The Middle East For A Warming Planet
The Middle East is not typically seen as a wellspring of global insights; for centuries, it has been viewed as an imperial backwater. However, in our era of climate crisis, the region offers invaluable lessons – both cautionary and inspirational – fo
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Bird’s Words
Because I go on about it all the time, politicians and the public ask me, what would you need to do if you sincerely wanted to get rid of poverty? What would be the first thing? The first thing I would do is an audit of what is being delivered by gov
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Far-right Former Football Hooligans Don’t Realise Who The Real Enemy Is
The Southport riots are the kind of thing we like to pretend we didn’t see coming. But the men on those streets didn’t appear from nowhere. A generation ago, many of those same men were on the terraces, wrapped up in Stoney and club lore, scrapping w
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Puzzles
1. Nice views might be seen through it! (6,6)9. Swimmers have protection in Welsh port (9)10. I leave couple in a state of equality (3)11. Graduate tucked into tacos cooked with hot sauce (7)12. Lily’s yoga position (5)13. Not liable to release from
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Sophie Turner and Frank Dillane ‘PEOPLE ALWAYS ROOT FOR THE REBELS’
Wham, bam, the 1980s are back. And not just in the form of the massive disparity between the wealthy few and the rest of us following years of Conservative government. Because with ITV’s Joan – which arrives on our screens just weeks before Disney+’s
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