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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...

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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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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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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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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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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 · 9h

Why we need to build new train stations – and how they could improve issues from the housing crisis to poor health.

Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 9h

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

What's behind the enduing appeal of Paul Weller?

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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 · 18h

Here's everything you need to know about whether you could be owed a back payment of disability benefit PIP from the government.

What is a PIP back payment and how do I know if I'm eligible?

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Harris Dickinson is on the verge of superstardom, but won’t let that get in the way of tackling issues close to his heart.

Harris Dickinson: 'It's all good tweeting about a cause. But what are you gonna do?'

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 19h

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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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 21h

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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Homelessness will remain a prevalent issue in the UK as long as the government fails to recognise the link between it and immigration laws

Labour must recognise the link between homelessness and immigration

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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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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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Political choices such as austerity, caps to benefits and cuts to social protection spending have led to widespread food poverty.

Hunger is a political choice. Could a 'Right to Food' change everything?

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The Guest is a glossy Welsh thriller about a lady of the manor who appoints a penniless young cleaner, precipitating a web of lies.

ITV drama The Guest review – delightful, moreish and completely ridiculous

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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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The Employment Rights Bill will improve workers' rights for millions, but will vulnerable groups be excluded from protections?

The Employment Rights Bill is promising. What could let it down?

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Mohammed Aklouk and his family were forced to leave Gaza City amid the horrors of war. He writes about how it felt to hear news of ceasefire.

This is how it felt the moment news of a ceasefire reached Gaza

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Queer Georgians looks back to tell the stories of those who loved, lived and struggled in ways that still resonate with us today.

Even the Georgians questions their gender and sexuality like we do today

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The Producers – currently playing on the West End – satirises fascism with musical comedy. It's a tonic for our times.

The Producers star Marc Antolin: 'Making fun of fascism is the best way to deal with it'

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