Innholdsfortegnelse for 7/30/2018 i The Big Issue

Welcome to The Big Issue’s Outdoor Special. I love being outside so along with when I was a gardener, The Big Issue is the best job I’ve ever had. On page 14 you can read about rural tourism. I sell the magazine in Saltburn in North Yorkshire. It’s a coastal village and very popular with tourists because it’s so lovely. I’ve never heard locals complain about it here but on page 19 we report on the seaside beauty spots that are voting to ban second homes to keep house prices down. And you can read about me, and my dreams of living on the water one day, on page 46.…

Taking a little break from stockpiling to write this. Since Dominic Raab and Theresa May gave us the nod that post-Brexit we’d be best to have a few things in – food, medicines, enough livestock to build a small, totally self-sufficient, off-grid smallholding – I’ve been going crazy for processed peas and tinned ham and Elastoplasts. So, if it all goes no deal and there are 30-mile tailbacks heading into Calais full of rotting food, and the pound has plummeted and it’s a bit, you know, uncertain, all round to mine. Bring your goat. Last week, in the midst of the heatwave, a plan was launched to keep homeless people warm. It won’t always be this hot. Friends of the late Kevin Headley are fundraising to finance the manufacture of…

We are sad to report that much-loved Big Issue vendor, dubbed ‘Belgium the Waffle’ by his friends and regulars, has died. Fabian Bayet became a fixture of life in Milton Keynes over 25 years, selling the magazine outside M&S with his beloved whippet Pippet, before moving on to a pitch on Stony Stratford high street. Originally from Belgium, the nature-loving vendor earned his moniker through his love of chatting with his regulars, who have now launched a GoFundMe campaign for a memorial at his pitch. Long-time friend Sally Luft said: “I used to spend my lunch breaks with Fabian when I met him 14 years ago and I even took him in one winter. He had a lot of people who really cared for him and he was a very…

For four decades, independent postcard producer Leeds Postcards has been sending out inventive, subversive messages with their images (that never feature Leeds). A collection of this activism through design follows major political ructions from Thatcher to Brexit. Have a go at some ‘Thatcher Therapy’ or imagine any number of public figures who you’d love to strike through. Leeds Postcards by Christine Hankinson and Craig Oldham (Four Corners Irregulars, £12) is out now…

There aren’t, to be frank, many compelling virtues to The Apparition – this French religious drama is an uneven curiosity – but in its favour it boasts a commendable central performance by Vincent Lindon. In almost every scene of this two-hour-plus movie Lindon gives a wonderfully wearisome turn as journalist Jacques Mayano. A veteran reporter of countless conflicts, he has the drained, battle-hardened expression of a hack who’s seen it all, a worldly scepticism that will be put to the test by the possibly supernatural events of The Apparition. Playing Jacques, Lindon exudes an air of exhaustion, an existential stupor from which no amount of coffee – and he does drink a lot – can rouse him. He has the journalist’s gift of prising sensitive information from his sources, but…

Some 25 years young this summer and just reissued on vinyl for the first time since its original pressing, Zooropa is the audience-polarising freak in U2’s discography, and a tantalising glimpse of the contrastingly un-shit band they could have gone on to become in the post-commercial-zenith period of their recording career if they’d chosen to. For the benefit of anyone not paying attention to the Irish juggernauts of overwrought rock’s story this last quarter-century, here’s a quick catch-up. Feeling sheepish after being panned for their harshly judged pretend techno album, 1997’s Pop, not to mention wasting a ton of cash on a giant motorised mirrorball lemon, Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton and the drummer panicked and regressed to making a long string of records starting with 2000’s All That You Can’t…

Work issue Seeing my local Big Issue vendor chatting and smiling to the passing public in all weathers encouraged me at the age of 66 to re-enter part-time work speaking to the public for an energy firm, something I had previously shied away from. W James, Swansea Simply the brist I’ve just returned to Bristol to graduate. I used to speak to Gerrard every day and he always cheered me up! Hannah Bloxsome, email EU cannot be serious What John Bird says about Brexit in his column [July 16-22] makes a lot of sense but it now seems that what people voted for was impossible to do, which is why all those who promised to deliver Brexit (some with good intentions) have failed. Now the real reasons for Brexit are…

The full and shameful extent of child poverty in Britain was revealed last week and it makes for unpleasant reading. New projections showed that it is spiking to levels not seen since before the New Labour years. The Resolution Foundation’s Living Standards Audit found that the number of under-16s living in a household earning less than 60 per cent of the average income may have grown by 21 per cent between 2011 and 2016, not 11 per cent as previously thought. “Our analysis shows that child poverty is likely to have risen last year, and that rises since 2010 have been underestimated in official Government data,” said Adam Corlett, the Resolution Foundation’s senior economic analyst. He said the squeeze on benefits was a massive part of the problem and called…

Geraldine is 60 and has struggled with drug addiction and been homeless twice, living on the streets around Victoria in London. Now she’s clean and lives in a housing association flat. She recently concluded a residency at Old Diorama Arts Centre in London, becoming the third artist affected by homelessness to do so there after David Tovey and James Gray, both of whose work has also featured in Big Issue Street Art. Street Art is created by people who are marginalised by issues like homelessness, disability and mental health conditions. Contact streetlights@bigissue.com  to see your art here. BUY STREET ART! You can buy prints of some artworks featured in Street Art through bigissueshop.com At least half of the profit from each sale goes to the artist.…

Airbnb – the peer-to-peer online holiday rental site – is a gateway to cities, towns, and – increasingly – rural areas for holidaymakers. According to a report published by the company last September, between July 2016 and July 2017, close to 2,500 villages, towns and cities (a total of 168,000 listings) hosted 5.9 million visitors. A glance at the map of homes listed on the site shows that there are properties in every nook and cranny of Britain. You can stay in a wigwam on the Orkney island of Westray; a cosy cottage in the Cumbrian village of Gilcrux (population 299); a room in a riverside apartment in the middle of the Brecon Beacons; or a clifftop house in Porthgwarra, a coastal village in southern Cornwall. Airbnb is transforming the…

RSC Summer holidays at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Kids go free to our award-winning interactive exhibition The Play’s The Thing. Free outdoor performances and puppet shows in our brand-new Swirl Theatre. Workshops, events and free activities every day. Until September 2 rsc.org.uk/summer-holidays MEN OF THE DOCKS Displays George Bellows’ titular painting from 1912, which was a key moment in the cataloguing of New York social history, capturing the harsh reality of work for longshoremen in bitter conditions. Until September 9 at the Barber Institute, Birmingham barber.org.uk DRAWN TO PERFECTION A look back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods to see how sketches were used to plan out paintings, frescoes, tapestries, sculptures and architecture, but also how they sit as powerful works of art in…

So pleased I stopped to buy a Big Issue from Jean between Waterloo Station and South Bank Centre today. His little story about Bruce Springsteen really made me smile; that once when Springsteen was performing, some women jumped up on stage to get close to him. Most of them were moved away by bouncers, but one woman clung on hard and couldn’t be prised away. Eventually she too was removed, at which Springsteen wiped his brow in relief and said to an audience member, “That’s rock’n’roll ma’am.” Good luck Jean! Catherine Alderson, email…

Transport Minister Jo Johnson has agreed to consider alternatives to the one-off, £1.5bn sale of Network Rail’s 5,476 railway arches. At a meeting last week he told the Guardians of the Arches campaign he will seriously listen to fresh proposals instead of barging ahead and flogging the whole estate to a single buyer by the end of this year. Options to be explored include allowing tenants to bid for arches themselves, and selling them to local or regional authorities. Leni Jones, co-owner of Rosso Corse and co-founder of the Guardians of the Arches, said: “In just a few short months we have gone from nothing to getting the government to consider an alternative to this sale. That shows the power of small businesses coming together and working to protect their…

Other than football, my teenage years were troubled. I was a very shy and insecure boy. I wasn’t comfortable in my own skin other than when I was playing football. I had the worst attendance of my school. You couldn’t get me into a classroom. I wasn’t good at it so I ran away. I didn’t face my fears. The first time I turned up at the school gates I cried. That was the last time I cried until I sobered up aged 29. My mum took me home and it was a repeating pattern. She took me in, by 10am I was in the sick room making out I was ill, she came to get me and by 11am I was in the park playing footy. At five I…

Behind the postcard-perfect scenery of some of Britain’s coastal beauty spots, there are battle lines being drawn over second homes. For many, holiday homes are a blight on seaside towns and villages, where the soul has been sucked out of the place by soaring house prices and falling incomes, leaving locals priced out in favour of the wealthy elite. But the framework to fight back came in the 2011 Localism Act which has led to a rush of referenda on the issue. Votes allow the creation of Neighbourhood Development Plans enabling policies to be set out for hyper-local areas, giving residents a voice and a chance to tailor rules and guidelines to their own needs. While they still have to conform to national policies, the NDPs have the same legal…

As I may have mentioned before, my TV is usually hogged by my 11 year old and it’s now just become a rectangle in the corner with Fortnite on it. (By the way, if you’re a Fortnite parent, I sympathise – but just remember, like Charlie and Lola, Skylanders, Minecraft and Stampylongnose, this too shall pass). Anyway, this week he’s away on holiday, and I have joined the ranks of people who can watch telly whenever they want. And although I have on-demand entertainment at my fingertips, I’m busy rediscovering the simple, festering joy of channel hopping on terrestrial TV. For those too young to know, channel hopping is an ancient art, usually featured in old films to illustrate a character’s emotional disintegration, but I prefer to see it as…