Innholdsfortegnelse for 20-05-19 i The Big Issue

@AreenVoskanian The @BigIssue man that stands on the corner of Middlesex Street near Liverpool Street is probably one of the most polite people on the planet. #london @Kate1Palmer Although I haven't seen any businesses go as far as banning handshakes at work, do you think this could happen in the future? Read more about it via @BigIssue #HR snip.ly/m1mkbc @RCArmitage I’ve had quite a humbling week. The anniversary of my Mum’s passing, but then I found a gentleman sleeping rough, in the bin store of my building...where we recycle. It has really troubled me, a human life...with the rubbish. I wasn’t sure what to do.... streetlink.org.uk/ @Steam_hygienist Replying to @RCArmitage it’s literally a big issue, sometimes very complex and sometimes crappy circumstance , thanks for highlighting it and streetlink. I…

Displayed outside One Church Brighton until the end of May as part of the Brighton Fringe programme, Unframed Lives is an exhibition of photography by people who have experienced addiction, homelessness or the impoverishing effects of austerity. It sees participants respond to the self-chosen theme of hope. First-time photographer Rita contributed this piece titled For Sarah. “The idea is that my sister is holding onto hope and hasn’t lost it,” says Rita. “She’s still looking forward. This was the first time I had seen my sister after she had suffered a bereavement. The photography project has given me inspiration to be creative and motivation to keep moving forward.” mybrightonphotoproject.com BOOKS Exploring the deepest of deep blue seas Dr Alex Rogers TV How Gossip Girl has made life bearable Lucy Sweet…

01 Ghost  by Jason Reynolds The first in Reynolds’ Run series, Ghost is an affecting novel about a young boy who must conquer memories of a traumatic experience, prejudice and reroute his life before it’s too late. 02 The Boy at the Back of the Class  by Onjali Rauf A heart-warming story of a group of nine-year-olds in a London school who work together to reunite new classmate, Ahmet, with his family, providing a child’s perspective on the refugee crisis and demonstrating the importance of empathy and kindness. 03 High Rise Mystery  by Sharna Jackson On the hottest day of the year, sisters Nik and Norva (the UK’s first young black female detective duo) use suspicions and smells to lead them to a horrible discovery on their south-east London estate.…

Any Given Sunday, the 1999 film from director Oliver Stone, was one of the more notable American football – and sporting – movies of that particular decade, not least for the way it was shot . The camera was taken on the field into the middle of the action, and it’s the film at its most arresting as a consequence. Thus, while critical opinion was a little divided, there was pretty unanimous praise for the presentation of the sports matches themselves. But then there aren’t many films that leave you pondering just how people go about filming sport. Yet – somewhat surprisingly – Julien Faraut’s documentary does just that. Surprising, because it’s entitled John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection and that not unreasonably leads most to suspect that they’re…

Two hundred metres inside a mountain in the high Arctic, the darkness and silence is suffocating. In this disused mine on the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole, lies the Arctic World Archive, described as “a safe repository for world memory”. As we become increasingly connected and ever more information about our lives is stored online, privacy, security and the threat of data corruption are growing concerns. That’s where this archive comes in, an off-grid storage facility that aims to act as a cultural time capsule. And you don’t get much more off-grid than this spot. The Global Seed Vault, which aims to preserve the planet’s biodiversity lies a few hundred metres down the access road that twists around roaming reindeer. It’s in the -20s…

When is renationalising OK? When the current Conservative government do it. Last week the probation service was brought back into public ownership. The running of the service in England and Wales had been part-privatised just five years ago by the then-Justice Secretary Chris ‘impossible to fire, regardless of my failings’ Grayling. He was warned back then that it was a bad idea. Announcing the significant reversal his most recent successor David Gauke said: “The system isn’t working.” The ill-conceived project will cost taxpayers around £500m. That’s essentially £2m of public money torched a week. Every week. It’s not the first time something that had been publicly-owned but went private needed bailed out by the public. Last June, the East Coast Main Line train service failed and was taken under government…

No – or at least not in a way that this study can prove. Netflix and streaming are not mentioned in the study at any point and there is a pretty simple explanation for that. The final year of data used for the survey – 2012 – coincides with the year that Netflix first launched in the UK and Ireland. That was back in the heady days when the little-known competitor went head-to-head with Amazon’s Lovefilm – yep, they used to post out DVDs back then. It would be pretty unfair to lay the blame at the door of Netflix at a time when they could only dream of the 10 million UK subscribers they now boast. Phones, of course, are a different story. But this cross-sectional study only reports…

All I can remember is being five years old, living in Lagos, Nigeria. What a lovely city it was. Every day I would get up at 6am, have a wash, brush my teeth and get ready for school. At 7.25am, I am at school ready to start my lessons. There were no shops around it, so there was no pit stop on the way to pick up snacks. I looked forward to the weekend so much. It meant I would not have to see my strict and scary teachers. That’s not to say I was a naughty kid. I just didn’t like my strict teachers who obviously wanted the best for me. In Lagos almost every child was always out on the streets playing football or playing out with friends…

The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth with a volume of 1.3 billion cubic kilometres of water and reaching nearly 11,000 metres in depth at its deepest point, the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, in the western Pacific. This trench was first discovered by HMS Challenger in what many regard as the first modern oceanographic expedition, which set out from Sheerness in December 1872. Since the Challenger expedition, we have learned much about the ocean, how it circulates, how it regulates the temperature, weather and atmospheric gases of the Earth and about the basic distribution of life within it. However, the further and deeper we go from the shore, the less we know. Only three people have visited the bottom of the Challenger Deep [including movie director James…

You may not have heard of the composer Jacques Offenbach, but you will certainly know at least one of his pieces. Offenbach, whose 200th anniversary falls this year, wrote the energetic melodies associated with the can-can, that high-kicking dance famously linked with exposed pantalettes, French music halls and the Belle Époque. The music comes from a scene in Offenbach’s operetta Orpheus in the Underworld (1858), although it was originally written for a dance known as the Galop. Offenbach’s music is widely celebrated in programmes this season, particularly in the composer’s native Germany and adopted home country, France. (He was born ‘Jacob’ and changed his name to Jacques, as well as writing most of his stage works in French.) As part of the commemorations, Buckinghamshire-based Garsington Opera hosts the UK premiere…

@_ShirMcC_ Glad. Should’ve been axed years ago. Personal misery as entertainment. I’ll only miss Security Steve @ashleighfrh One rule for Jeremy, whose team actually offer aftercare, seems like an entirely different rule for love islanders who get dropped back into a big scary world they’re completely unprepared for @BenefitsBlues What about the thousands of people who’ve reportedly died after failed assessments for benefits under the DWP? Why can’t we axe our ministers and force accountability for the deaths of disabled and ill people? @Daphneh236 reality shows do have a duty of care to look after participants – that includes Love Island – why hasn’t it been taken off air? @NormLucy In #MentalHealth AwarenessWeek it’s so right it’s been cancelled. I won’t miss it, but it was just as easy to…

You cannot avoid our dutiful attachment to the past. The past is all about us, either as ancient, dirty, planet-destroying fossil fuel, or as political values and postures that are as obnoxious as the toxic waste we use as fuel. Extracting energy from the defunct forests of prehistory seems not dissimilar to our insistence on taking up all the old moralistic thinking and recycling it as new. So you could say our cars are driven by toxic waste and our current thinking is toxic; unable to reach consensus and always in pursuit of the baddie. The environmental degradation of the last 60 years has been unprecedented – we’ve been eating away at our own life support systems at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years. From the time we…

When I was 16 I was just a stupid big tall kid with bad acne riding my bicycle around LA. I was 6ft 3in. I had bad posture. I wore glasses. I had a big shock of dark hair. I was thin. I dressed Ivy League – buttoned-down shirts, corduroy pants, saddle shoes. I wanted to be a rich kid. I was going to the library a lot, and reading, and stealing things out of stores, shoplifting books and sneaking into movie theatres. I grew up very poor on the edge of a wealthy neighbourhood in LA called Hancock Park. There were a great many groovy daughters of privilege. They went to a private school called Marlborough and I spent a lot of time perving on them, afraid to talk…

Shinaayo wrote this piece for The Big Issue’s Southampton Teenage Takeover, a special free magazine produced for – and by – schoolkids in the city. It was the latest innovation from The Big Issue’s partnership with Saints Foundation, which started in 2017 when we produced a matchday programme that was sold by Big Issue vendors at St Mary’s Stadium at the first home fixture of the season. For the Southampton Teenage Takeover we handed over control to 12 amazingly creative youngsters aged 13 to 15 from five high schools across the city. They came up with the ideas and wrote the pieces themselves. The unique mag included a day out on the town with Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhüttl, a behind-the-scenes tour of a cruise ship and a special investigation into…

The opening chapter of Sandra Newman’s fourth novel The Heavens sets the scene in a number of ways. In the rarefied glow of a late summer New York party illuminated by tea lights, two spontaneous, attractive people, pregnant with happy expectation, begin to fall in love. The night is one of “receptive postures and parted lips; such an easy blessedness, like ascending a staircase into the air”. The heady intoxication of this evocation is typical of Newman’s sumptuous, multi-layered novel, in which both the writing and the characters shimmer and spin; sometimes joyfully, sometimes in a panic. The tone changes as different voices take hold of the narrative – the contained Jay McInerney-like mixture of elegance and awe gives way to the splintered prose of a chaotic mind. But what…

In classical music, a prelude is a short piece that is often used as an introduction to a more expansive work. The pieces are regularly grouped together to form collections, becoming an independent work in their own right (who says classical is confusing..?). Pianist Alexandra Dariescu has recorded various collections of preludes as part of a series for enterprising independent label Champs Hill, including works by Chopin, Shostakovich and Szymanowski. Dariescu’s third and final instalment focuses on Parisian preludes from the early 20th century written by French composers Lili Boulanger, Fauré and Messiaen. It’s great to have the slight – but exquisite – Boulanger prelude; Lili is a composer who has received greater attention since the centenary of her death was marked last year. The piece offers a taste of…

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