The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a UK-based street paper that supports the homeless, the vulnerably housed asnd those seeking to escape poverty. Vendors normally buy the magazine for £1.25 and sell to the public for £2.50. We are using Zinio digital editions to create additonal revenue opportunities to fund our street-based and pastoral care services for our vendors. We are a social enterprise company and all revenues go to support the vulnerable communities we serve. Our goal is to move our vendors away from dependency and towards full time employment

Darkest Peru

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • The thing is, our leaders are all out of ideas

BIRD’S WORDS • Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth should honour our past struggles

LETTERS

THE FINAL ACT • As Happy Valley comes to an end, actor James Norton and Halifax MP Holly Lynch look at the impact and legacy of Sally Wainwright’s smash hit

‘ULTIMATELY, THIS STRIKE IS ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY’ • As the NHS turns 75, three nurses take the vitals of the health service to find staff numbers in freefall and a system on life support

HOME TRUTHS

GLEN MATLOCK • The lonely child was propelled headfirst into punk infamy with the Sex Pistols, but he wishes he’d stayed at art school

STREET ART • ON MY PLATE – AN EXHIBITION BY WOMEN IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM by Koestler Arts in partnership with the Doing Porridge project at University of Surrey

Books

Back-to-front thinking brought my Arabic translation to life

Film

‘I WOULD SAY THE REBOOT IS VERY RELEVANT TO THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE TODAY’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Union Street, Bath Monday-Saturday 9am-2pm