Celebrate the royal wedding – Big Issue style

We take a different view on the royal wedding.

From a right royal timeline charting the nation’s two most venerable institutions coming together (the monarchy meets The Big Issue) to our very own Big Issue Shop wedding guest, we look at this year’s biggest event in a different light.

Also this week.

• Ronnie O’Sullivan compares his snooker career to an injured animal – “I can’t put [it] out of its misery” – in this week’s Letter To My Younger Self
• Straight-talking TV doctor Christian Jessen says the NHS hasn’t kept pace with society – and in Mental Health Awareness Week he says it’s leading to a social media-fuelled crisis
• And Dani Garavelli meets a hostel manager and a nurse who are helping homeless people with end-of-life care.

Online this week…

• Byline’s Stephen Colgrave on why being a rockstar in 2018 means taking down the world’s largest tech companies
• Benedict Cumberbatch talks money, debauchery and drugs but his new show Patrick Melrose “cuts to the heart of a rotten class system”