9/19/2022

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The Big Issue - A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out

The Big Issue1 min readInternational Relations
The Path Of Most Resistance
It’s been almost seven months since the Russian army invaded Ukraine. In that time, a third of the Ukrainian population has been displaced in Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II. But last week saw major advances for Ukrainian forces. Pre
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The Dispatch
The cost-of-living crisis is likely to see more people fall into homelessness and you may be wondering how you can help. You’ve already bought a Big Issue magazine but how else can you take direct action? If you have some spare space then the Nightst
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FOUNDERS John Bird and Gordon Roddick GROUP CHAIR Nigel Kershaw GROUP CEO Paul Cheal MANAGING DIRECTOR Russell Blackman EDITORIAL & PRODUCTION Editor Paul McNameeArt director Mark NeilDeputy editor Steven MacKenzieDigital editor Alastair ReidC
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Editor’s Letter
The closure of some foodbanks to mark the Queen’s funeral should not be the main concern. It is a concern, of course, for those who rely on food-banks. But the much bigger issue, the thing that should really get us angry, is that there are so many fo
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Bird’s Words
My grandmother believed passionately that the 20th century went wrong when Queen Victoria died in 1901, aged 81. She left the century and the country in the lurch. According to my gran, the First World War came out of the incompetence of Victoria’s s
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Letters
The Big Issue, 2nd floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW letters@bigissue.com @bigissue /bigissueUK @bigissueuk @thebigissue Really enjoyed the book reviews in the latest Big Issue, however, the Top 5 talking cats [Issue 1529, September 5]
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The BIG ISSUE BULLETIN
The Reading festival of 1998 was a different time to the one this summer, which saw Big Issue cover stars Arctic Monkeys return to UK performance. Not only were CDs still the primary musical format, but New Order, Beastie Boys, Prodigy, and Jimmy Pag
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OUR VENDORS & THE QUEEN
Big Issue vendor Dave Martin, who sells the magazine at Tesco in Hammersmith, West London, met Prince William earlier this summer (below right) as the royal sold the magazine to mark his 40th birthday. Martin said: “It’s sad news, not only for the ro
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The New Green King
In the space of one momentous week, the UK has acquired a new king and a new prime minister. One of them is known for staunch and unstinting devotion to environmental causes, the other immediately promised to open new gas and oil fields and to start
The Big Issue2 min readCrime & Violence
Why Are Anti-monarchy Protesters Being Arrested After The Queen’s Death?
As thousands of people attend events following the Queen’s death, some are taking the opportunity to protest against the monarchy. And police are arresting them for it. Symon Hill was arrested in Oxford after he shouted: “Who elected him?” when passi
The Big Issue5 min readPoverty & Homelessness
Teachers Are Running Foodbanks In Schools So Children Don’t Go Hungry
Teachers have always gone above and beyond to support the children in their care and, with the cost-of-living crisis, schools are at the forefront of the UK’s slide into deepening poverty. Now that all UK kids are back in classrooms after the summer
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This Is The Future Of Farming
Standing beside a polytunnel in the middle of a farm in rural Devon, I’m holding a cucumber I’ve just plucked from the vine. It’s more compact and firm than the long, watery kind you’d usually find in a supermarket, but as I take a bite, the only wor
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Motsi Mabuse
At 16, I was living in Pretoria, and we had just moved from a Black area to a very white area. South Africa was open, so Black people were allowed to move into certain parts and my parents were always against boundaries, so they pushed those limits.
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240 Artworks
The 240 Project is a London activity centre supporting vulnerable adults through services such as art workshops. Several of its members are regular contributors to Big Issue Street Art, and later this month they will stage their annual exhibition of
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Books
There’s a war on, but only some of us know it’s happening,” writes Morgan M. Page in her introduction to Morbid Obsessions: On trans and sex worker bodies and writing fiction from the margins, the latest chapbook from the radical queer publisher Ciph
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Film
In a ballet studio, a group of housewives ditch their immaculate white aprons for rigid tights and bodices. Their legs fold and unfold as clockwork, arms framing their slender figures. “Remember ladies, there is beauty in control,” reinforces Shelley
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Michael Flatley LORD OF THE SPIES
The name’s Flatley. Michael Flatley. He’s known by other aliases, of course. Lord of the Dance, the Celtic Tiger. The Bostonian who revolutionised Irish dance via the vote-counting gap at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 (which Ireland went on to
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Music
We are in the middle of a Megalithic revival. It might seem odd to proclaim this in 2022 but, with a 22-date tour currently taking place for a club we dreamed up in an idle moment last November that takes its inspiration from standing stones and preh
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Puzzles
Across 1. Concerning prison sentence, will exaggerate (11)9. Joined together but failed to make a connection (5)10. Competed as well but was unplaced (4-3)11. Man to turn to (4)12. Susan returns holding order for retired professor (8)14. Listener to
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My Pitch
Things are not good at the moment. No one’s got any money because the price of gas and electricity has gone through the roof and the trains have gone on strike for four days this month. I’m coming from Faversham, and it means I have to go down to thr

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