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This week’s Big Issue is out today!

✊ Cillian Murphy fights the system
⚕️ Can Marmot Principles fix Britain?
🏠 Our hidden homelessness special

Pick up a copy today, and read a sneak peek here. 👀 www.bigissue.com/behind-the...

Big Issue @bigissue.com · 31m

Untreated vision and hearing problems trap people experiencing homelessness in cycles of poverty. This is what's being done to break them.

The hidden cost of going unseen and unheard

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Starmer has had to adapt significantly to the role of prime minister says personality expert and motivational speaker Paul McGee.

What does Keir Starmer's personality type tell us about him?

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 3h

Riot Women is an excoriating howl of defiance written by Sally Wainwright for and on behalf of women in their middle years.

'Menopause is about anger': Sally Wainwright on new comedy drama Riot Women

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 4h

The forces holding back ethnic minority doctors are the same as those stifling the patients we see in front of us, says Matt Hutchinson.

'Are you really the doctor?': The realities of life as a Black GP in the NHS

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 5h

The Coronation Gardens project is turning car parks, schoolyards and more into thriving green spaces to fight food insecurity.

Inside the community garden project empowering people to grow their own food

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 6h

Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy centres around her grief and the enduring legacy of her remarkable mother.

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy review – words of wisdom

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 6h

Cillian Murphy and author Max Porter have teamed up again for an adaptation of Porter's 2023 book Shy which offers a new perspective.

Cillian Murphy: 'The most important people can't afford a house – it's a big problem'

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 8h

The fourth novel by Olga Tokarczukc is set around Nowa Ruda, a Polish town, previously mapped as part of Germany.

House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk review – mushrooming magic

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 9h

Sam Delaney kept it together enough while dropping his daughter off at university to encourage her to start a new phase of life.

Seeing your kid off to university is a beautiful thing

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 10h

More than one in 10 kinship carers are concerned they won’t be able to continue caring for their kinship children in the next year.

Kinship carers are sleeping on sofas and floors to keep children out of care

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Penned Up, a new drama by Suffolk-based playwright Danusia Iwaszko, draws on her 17 years of teaching in men’s prisons.

Learning how to tell stories gives prisoners a chance at redemption

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 11h

Dan Jennings' book Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire – The Authorised Oral History asks what has made the Modfather endure.

What's behind the enduring appeal of Paul Weller?

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 13h

Last year in the UK, 1,611 people died while homeless. It could be preventable if the government changed its priorities, says John Bird.

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 14h

Howard Reed and Martin O’Neill write about how a wealth tax in the autumn budget could boost growth, raise revenues and reduce inequality.

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 15h

Taxpayer money has gone towards funding anti-abortion groups and crisis pregnancy centres in the UK.

Anti-abortion groups have received funds from the UK government

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 16h

Big Issue spoke with deputy leadership hopeful Lucy Powell about her hopes for the future of the Labour party and the country.

Labour deputy leader hopeful Lucy Powell: 'Benefit cuts don't speak to our values'

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 17h

Reversing Right to Buy would be expensive, but it would provide immediate results and would pay dividends over time.

Reversing Right to Buy may sound radical. But it could fix the housing shortage

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Walton in Liverpool has the country's highest rate of disability benefits. But what's behind the stats in an area in the firing line of cuts?

Inside the community with more disability benefit claimants than anywhere else

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One-year-old Exodus died three years ago after a fall from a window at his seventh-floor flat. Now campaigners want action.

My baby brother died after falling from a high-rise window. His life could have been saved

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Marmot places are having tangible results on health and wellbeing. Just ask these people who are busy making it happen

How projects driven by Marmot principles are transforming Britain

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A typical British worker would need to save all of their earning for 52 years to become wealthy, new research has found.

Typical Brit must save entire lifetime's worth of earnings to become wealthy

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Adam Buxton, Jens Lekman and a host of other sharp-witted writers are showing that comedy really does belong in music.

Buckle Up by Adam Buxton review – proof that comedy really does belong in music

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Sir John Rutter became one of Britain's most cherished composers despite neither of his parents having musical backgrounds.

Composer John Rutter: 'If there are people you love, for goodness' sake tell them'

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Sadiq Khan's campaign to help pensioners in London access the support they're entitled to will be extended to help more people.

More than £4bn in benefits will go unclaimed in London this year

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Our broken financial system forces people with mental health issues to share their PIN code, new research has warned.

Broken banking system leaving people with mental health problems open to fraud

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