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National Vendor Week: Big Issue sellers pick their favourite cultural highlights
Culture

National Vendor Week: Big Issue sellers pick their favourite cultural highlights

The real Repair Shop: Jay Blades and former vendor Steve's new restoration venture
Jay Blades and Steve Wyatt
News

The real Repair Shop: Jay Blades and former vendor Steve's new restoration venture

Daniel Mays: 'Becoming a dad made me a better person and a better actor, it galvanised me'
Daniel Mays
Letter to My Younger Self

Daniel Mays: 'Becoming a dad made me a better person and a better actor, it galvanised me'

‘Rishi Sunak wants a drone army of data entering robots’: Simon Pegg’s furious attack on PM’s maths plan
Rishi Sunak and Simon Pegg
Education

‘Rishi Sunak wants a drone army of data entering robots’: Simon Pegg’s furious attack on PM’s maths plan

Harry Styles’s jumpsuits and the Jubilee: It's the cultural moments of the year
Greg James picks Harry Styles’s jumpsuits as his cultural moment of the year. Illustration: The Big Issue
best of the year

Harry Styles’s jumpsuits and the Jubilee: It's the cultural moments of the year

David Jason: 'I find it difficult to believe that Del Boy is so beloved'
David Jason
TV

David Jason: 'I find it difficult to believe that Del Boy is so beloved'

Wilko Johnson: 'I believed I was going to die – then started to feel alive'
Letter to my younger self

Wilko Johnson: 'I believed I was going to die – then started to feel alive'

Ezra Furman: 'All my music is protest music'
Ezra Furman
anti-corporate

Ezra Furman: 'All my music is protest music'

Bafta Breakthrough: 'Someone requested a meeting with Brad Pitt and they made it happen'
The Bafta Breakthrough 2022 cohort includes Nell Barlow, Joanna Boateng, Jack Rooke, Paul Sng and Marley Morrison
Culture

Bafta Breakthrough: 'Someone requested a meeting with Brad Pitt and they made it happen'

The John Lewis Christmas advert is a powerful challenge to foster care stereotypes
ohn Lewis Christmas advert: a young girl arriving at her new foster placement.
Marie-Claire Jones

The John Lewis Christmas advert is a powerful challenge to foster care stereotypes

Aldi's Next Big Thing: A stressful behind-the-scenes look at the supermarket chain
Aldi's Next Big Thing Pictured: Harrison and Griffiths Photo: Channel 4
TV

Aldi's Next Big Thing: A stressful behind-the-scenes look at the supermarket chain

Industry: Investment bank drama is 'exhilaratingly reprehensible'
Industry
Review

Industry: Investment bank drama is 'exhilaratingly reprehensible'

Dan Walker: 'My 16-year-old self would never believe Alan Shearer would one day know his name'
Dan Walker portrait
Culture

Dan Walker: 'My 16-year-old self would never believe Alan Shearer would one day know his name'

Richard Osman: ‘I’m not that smart’
Richard Osman's House of Games
interview

Richard Osman: ‘I’m not that smart’

Lesley Manville: 'A working-class upbringing is political in itself, isn't it?'
Lesley Manville
Letter to my Younger Self

Lesley Manville: 'A working-class upbringing is political in itself, isn't it?'

Paul O'Grady: 'I could milk a cow by the time I was seven'
Paul O'Grady spoke to The Big Issue about his love of dogs and mixed feelings on Lily Savage Photo: Kirsty Mattsson
Letter to my Younger Self

Paul O'Grady: 'I could milk a cow by the time I was seven'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Richard Osman: ‘The Bullet That Missed isn’t the end for the Thursday Murder Club’
Richard Osman, author of The Bullet That Missed
Books

Richard Osman: ‘The Bullet That Missed isn’t the end for the Thursday Murder Club’

Celebrate the Queen with her favourite music, film, TV and more
Queen Elizabeth II at The Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace in 2012.
Queen Elizabeth

Celebrate the Queen with her favourite music, film, TV and more

Having your energy bills paid is now a prize on a TV competition
ITV This Morning/ Energy Bills
Cost of living crisis

Having your energy bills paid is now a prize on a TV competition

Sharon Horgan: 'Divorce can be a really helpful, handy thing'
Sharon Horgan
Letter to my Younger Self

Sharon Horgan: 'Divorce can be a really helpful, handy thing'

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