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BetterPod: Matt Foot & Morag Livingstone reveal how the police suppress protest
Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone: How the police suppress protest
Right to protest

BetterPod: Matt Foot & Morag Livingstone reveal how the police suppress protest

Author Jan Carson: Britpop, bible camp, Ian Paisley and me
Books

Author Jan Carson: Britpop, bible camp, Ian Paisley and me

Book reviews: Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, and The Drowned Forest by Angela Barry
pregnant woman
Books

Book reviews: Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, and The Drowned Forest by Angela Barry

Why I used bad guys to spread the message about the climate crisis in my novel
Climate crisis

Why I used bad guys to spread the message about the climate crisis in my novel

Raja Shehadeh: We weren't close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him
Palestine

Raja Shehadeh: We weren't close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him

The dark side of the influencer economy
Top influencer earners Dwayne Johnson, Ariana Grande and Kylie Jenner
Podcast

The dark side of the influencer economy

Denise Mina: 'Writing is a compulsion. It’s not really something you choose to do'
Letter to my Younger Self

Denise Mina: 'Writing is a compulsion. It’s not really something you choose to do'

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition
Books

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition

What it's like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid
LGBTQ+

What it's like to grow up gay, Muslim and afraid

BetterPod: Laura Bates fights institutional misogyny and everyday sexism
Laura Bates on BetterPod
violence against women

BetterPod: Laura Bates fights institutional misogyny and everyday sexism

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound
Books

How church, state and monarchy are inextricably bound

Books about jazz you need to read
Books

Books about jazz you need to read

Life as a midwife aid worker: 'Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed'
Books

Life as a midwife aid worker: 'Plagued by vivid dreams of the patients I felt I had failed'

Why I created a book full of weird and wonderful images I found in online archives
Japanese illustration
Books

Why I created a book full of weird and wonderful images I found in online archives

Darren McGarvey: 'Austerity was class war. I want to hit back'
Darren McGarvey in front of a wall with graffiti
inequality

Darren McGarvey: 'Austerity was class war. I want to hit back'

Being deaf is no tragedy – it's one of my greatest strengths
Books

Being deaf is no tragedy – it's one of my greatest strengths

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
I was an Old Bailey judge. Here's what really goes on in court
Books

I was an Old Bailey judge. Here's what really goes on in court

Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère review: An intriguing journey with a uniquely inventive writer
Yoga pose at sunset
Book review

Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère review: An intriguing journey with a uniquely inventive writer

Can design solve homelessness, the climate crisis and racism?
Alice Rawsthorn and Peter Barber on BetterPod
BetterPod

Can design solve homelessness, the climate crisis and racism?

Hussain Manawer: 'From sadness, I created beautiful things'
Hussain Manawer features on BetterPod The Big Issue's podcast
mental health

Hussain Manawer: 'From sadness, I created beautiful things'

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