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Life lessons with Yungblud: 'Social media is gonna fry your head. Have dinner with your mum instead'
Yungblud
Interview

Life lessons with Yungblud: 'Social media is gonna fry your head. Have dinner with your mum instead'

Speaking exclusively to Big Issue, Yungblud discusses bringing the hips back to rock'n'roll, how Ozzy Osbourne's death moved him to tears and using his influence to boost his local community
Yungblud's Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again
The opening of Yungblud's store and community space on London's Denmark Street in Soho
Denmark Street

Yungblud's Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized is making one London street sing again

Love Island winner Toni Laites: 'My entire prize fund went on rent. I was living off my savings'
Toni Laites is Love Island's first American contestant.
Interview

Love Island winner Toni Laites: 'My entire prize fund went on rent. I was living off my savings'

Top 5 books on the London Underground, chosen by Rishi Dastidar 
Top 5

Top 5 books on the London Underground, chosen by Rishi Dastidar 

My plan for the future is to die on a weekend
Books

My plan for the future is to die on a weekend

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Meet the man on a mission to revolutionise Camden's historic high street: 'It's a force for change'
Art

Meet the man on a mission to revolutionise Camden's historic high street: 'It's a force for change'

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2026
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2026

Inside London's longest-running squat: 'It was a really extraordinary community'
Photography

Inside London's longest-running squat: 'It was a really extraordinary community'

Actor Jessica Regan moved 16 times in 20 years. Now her renting nightmare is a stage show
Theatre

Actor Jessica Regan moved 16 times in 20 years. Now her renting nightmare is a stage show

London’s community gardens show it’s not just a diesel-choked city on its last legs
a child picking tomatoes in Dagenham
Richard Sharp

London’s community gardens show it’s not just a diesel-choked city on its last legs

Unemployment is on the rise in London. Should the rest of the UK be worried?
Ben Harrison

Unemployment is on the rise in London. Should the rest of the UK be worried?

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high – showing 'normalised emergency' on capital's streets
a man sleeping rough on the street
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high – showing 'normalised emergency' on capital's streets

Big Issue founder Lord John Bird: My 80th birthday message
John Bird

Big Issue founder Lord John Bird: My 80th birthday message

How 2026 can mark the beginning of the end for rough sleeping
a homeless man lying down sleeping rough on the street
Emma Haddad

How 2026 can mark the beginning of the end for rough sleeping

They warned free school meals would hurt school budgets. Something much more interesting happened
Sadiq Khan serves dinner
Free school meals

They warned free school meals would hurt school budgets. Something much more interesting happened

Inside the unique project tackling homelessness as a community: 'We should have one in every town'
Harbour Project resident Darren Rowe
Homelessness

Inside the unique project tackling homelessness as a community: 'We should have one in every town'

Dismantling of London tent village sparks fears over what happened to people who lived there
The empty space where a homelessness encampment used to stand near Adelphi Terrace on the Strand in Westminster
Homelessness

Dismantling of London tent village sparks fears over what happened to people who lived there

Britain would be nicer if people lived more like Paddington, says musical writer Jessica Swale
Paddington

Britain would be nicer if people lived more like Paddington, says musical writer Jessica Swale

How family hubs are helping families in poverty when they need it most: 'Money is never enough'
Family hubs

How family hubs are helping families in poverty when they need it most: 'Money is never enough'

How the UK's only cash-first food bank is shattering myths around aid: 'Cash is the issue'
Food banks

How the UK's only cash-first food bank is shattering myths around aid: 'Cash is the issue'

More than 100,000 children will spend Christmas homeless in London: ‘It’s heart-breaking’
London skyline
Housing

More than 100,000 children will spend Christmas homeless in London: ‘It’s heart-breaking’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Watch Big Issue vendor André bring his Christmas song to life with a London choir
Big Issue vendor Andre Rostant and the Adam Street Singers smile at the camera at their performance spot in Covent Garden, decorated with Christmas lights
Christmas

Watch Big Issue vendor André bring his Christmas song to life with a London choir

New £3.5 million fund to test out ways to prevent homelessness and turn around London crisis
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
homelessness

New £3.5 million fund to test out ways to prevent homelessness and turn around London crisis

What's the most important part of any urban landscape? The people who inhabit it
Julie Adams

What's the most important part of any urban landscape? The people who inhabit it

Warning as new synthetic opioid 200 times stronger than heroin kills three users in days
A syringe of naloxone
Drug deaths

Warning as new synthetic opioid 200 times stronger than heroin kills three users in days