The Legendary Christmas Special 2024

This bumper edition is sure to make your Christmas merry!

• How Big Issue has delivered change for vendors and readers through reporting and positive action
• Nick Park talks the return of the iconic Wallace & Gromit – and a certain mischievous penguin
• When a child is born… what’s life is like born in Bethlehem today for the town’s busiest maternity hospital, plus the situation for those facing winter in Gaza
• Keir Starmer’s Christmas message
• Nicola Coughlan on her journey from Bridgerton to Doctor Who
• Prisons tzar James Timpson and Scottish First Minister John Swinney guide us through their momentous 12 months
• The best of our famous Letter To My Younger Self interviews from 2024
• The Big Issue Book of the Year is crowned
• Cultural highlights from Chris McCausland, Holliday Grainger, Sophie Turner, Jodie Whittaker, Mike Leigh, Tom Grennan, Eddie Marsan, Danny Dyer and more
• The return of our bizarrely-popular Christmas quiz
• And we celebrate our hard-working vendors and their words of wisdom from throughout the year

Merry Christmas from Big Issue!

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