Innholdsfortegnelse for 30-09-19 i The Big Issue

01 Dogs on film: get to know some of the goodest boys and girls in the world From sport dogs to rescue dogs, adopted dogs, senior dogs and dogs of Instagram, the Top Dog Film Festival has got the lot. Discover the stories of remarkable four-legged friends from around the globe. Conway Hall, London, October 1-2, Lighthouse Theatre, Poole, October 3 (then touring); topdogfilmfestival.co.uk 02 Celebrate the iconic aesthetic of Factory Records  A new 40th anniversary exhibition celebrates the Manchester label’s seminal sleeve art and other promo materials for bands including Joy Division, New Order and A Certain Ratio. Curated by Jon Savage and Mat Bancroft, Use Hearing Protection features the first 50 numbered Factory artefacts. Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London, until October 26; londondesignfestival.com/ event/use-hearing-protection-fac-1-50-40 03…

@SteadmanArt T-shirts arrived today from @BigIssue although Boris head might be a bit small!! Bet no one has ever said that about him! Get yours online at the Big Issue Shop and #helpthehomeless @MariB_NEU Just finished last week’s #BorisBigIssue - a brilliant read and a pretty monumental day all round! #aHandUpNotHandOut #SupremeCourt @sthomasstory Met a @BigIssue seller today in London who was delighted to hear that my @bizbuzzlondon#networking meeting was @ BeyondBrigade where he was about to start cooking lessons. Excited, hopeful & nervous about his new op. Amazing work @chefsimonboyle…

TV architect George Clarke is teaching young people how to create houses for the future as part of his urgent mission to fix the UK’s housing crisis. The council housing crusader helped to create a degree at Birmingham City University that is set to begin in September next year. The Design for Future Living course is architecture with a difference – focused entirely on creative housing design plus the social, economic and environmental factors that are driving demand but cutting supply. The course will delve into cutting-edge construction techniques like modular housing and homes built in factories and then assembled on-site. The Amazing Spaces presenter told The Big Issue he hopes the course will help create “genuinely affordable and beautiful homes for everyone”, adding: “Social housing needs to be constructed…

There is a crisis engulfing Westminster, and to find it you need to head to the cleaner’s store cupboard at 102 Petty France, just behind the recycling bins. It’s from here that Fatima Djalo – a 55- year-old woman from Guinea-Bissau who has been working at the heart of government for six years – grabs the equipment she needs to sweep the floors and scrub the toilets at Britain’s Ministry of Justice. It’s from here too that, with the help of colleagues, she has plotted and led an extraordinary strike wave to demand a living wage for her work. Fatima’s cupboard lies within half a mile of Parliament, Downing Street and the Supreme Court. The story it tells is directly related to the chaos currently ripping through those rarefied institutions,…

For 100 years Save the Children has had a huge impact around the world. From war zones to famine-stricken nations, delivering emergency relief in the teeth of disaster and in everyday domestic situations here in Britain, wherever children are in need Save the Children has been there to help. And to mark the centenary of the charity this year 10 leading British artists have created exclusive new works, which are being sold as numbered, signed prints limited to between 75 to 200 copies. David Shrigley’s I Love… (pictured right) joins works by Martin Creed, Rose Wylie, Harland Miller, Katherine Bernhardt, Benjamin Senior, Rob Pruitt, Joyce Pensato, Sir Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin, who co-created the collection with Sir Nicholas Serota, chair of Arts Council England. Emin said: “This is an…

The Big Issue: Is this the perfect time to tell this story? Peter Bowker: The perfect time might have been a couple of years ago! But I think we constantly need to remind ourselves that it is a story about international co-operation to defeat Nazism. A group of countries with very little in common politically formed an alliance because they knew they had more in common than what set us apart. That is what World War Two was. And I won’t have it rewritten. Because it is insulting to the memory of everybody if you go along with the ‘plucky Britain’ myth. I know what my dad thought he was fighting for – and it wasn’t isolationism. He fought alongside Gurkhas, soldiers in the Far East, alongside all nationalities. And…

It must be hard enough for any immigrant arriving in a new country, with a new language to learn, new cultural norms to decipher, and much to be left behind. How much harder if the immigrant in question is trailing behind her the great weight of international fame and notoriety? This was the challenge facing one Svetlana Alliluyeva as she abandoned Moscow for New York in 1967. It was the height of the Cold War, and her defection was both a spectacular victory for the CIA and a major embarrassment for the Soviet regime. A battery of newspaper reporters and TV crews awaited her arrival on American soil, eager to hear and broadcast across the planet what she had to say for herself. Alliluyeva was about as big a publicity…

When most people think of gospel music, they think choirs or the Sister Act movie franchise, but the gospel music scene is in truth a lot more vibrant than the general audience realises. Like jazz it is a genre with many genres within it, from the contemporary sounds of traditional gospel to pop, country and even rap sitting side by side in today’s catalogue. OK, yes there are choirs too, loads of them – and all with their individual signatures and charm. Gospel is in! Ask artists such as Stormzy, with his now legendary Glastonbury Pyramid Stage performance of Blinded By His Grace and Kanye West’s recent pop-up LA ‘Sunday Service’ brand which he then performed at Coachella to rave reviews. America is the birthplace and flag-bearer of gospel music.…

Leicester station Every day, 7.30am-9.30pm I used to be a labourer, working on building sites but when I became homeless I lost my job. I was on the streets for two years, I was out over the winter time and it was horrible. I’m much better where I am now, in a hostel here in Leicester. While I was homeless someone approached me on the streets and asked if I’d like to sell The Big Issue. I said yes, I would go on to it and I’ve been doing it now for the last eight months. Before that I was begging, but this is different. It stops me from having to ask people for change on the street and I can just sell magazines instead. It feels a lot better.…

Out of the frying pan Roger Evans gives an erudite account of his views around why we should leave the EU [Platform, September 23-29]. However... Has he really forgotten the devastation caused during the Thatcher years? The closure of the mines, the destruction of trades unions, and generations of people who lost not only their jobs, but the legacy of a work ethic to pass on to their children and grandchildren! The closure of mental institutions propelled a huge number of vulnerable people on to the streets, without medical supervision, medication and.... homes. Enter The Big Issue! Today it has been announced that Wright Buses – the company responsible for enabling one of Boris Johnson’s so-called vanity projects – manufacturer of the Routemaster buses and popularly known as Boris Buses…

I judged a writing competition last week. It was for prisoners. I agreed to do it some time ago, full of enthusiasm and bold intent. When it came to it, I met the pile of papers with sighs and harrumphing about ‘other things to do’. What a fool. Organised by the Prison Reform Trust, the competition invited those inside to write on the topic of A Good Officer, wherever that took them. There was a general entry section and one for under-21s. I was knocked over by it all. The majority of entries talked about what made a good prison officer, either from personal experience, or by watching how they treated others. There was a brilliant, clear-sighted piece that looked at the impact of privatisation on staff and inmates. I…

Earlier in September former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas went public about living with HIV. Days later, Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness told the world that he was diagnosed with the virus seven years ago. Nearly 102,000 people in the UK have HIV – but that number would likely be much higher without the furious activism of Greg Owen. His efforts set off a chain of events that ultimately saw an English court rule that people must be able to get PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) through the NHS. It’s a preventative pill that protects HIV-negative people from contracting the virus nearly 100 per cent of the time, even without practising safe sex. And getting it to the UK was a fight. The eldest of six children, Owen grew up in…

RJ Mitchell signing at WHSmith, Edinburgh: The Scottish crime writer will be signing copies of his latest book The Blood Acre (Saturday October 5 from 11am) Tony Macaulay signing at Waterstones, Coleraine: Macaulay will be signing copies of his satirical comedy drama Belfast Gate (Saturday October 5, 2pm) Cressida Cowell signing at WHSmith, Worcester: Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell will be visiting the store to sign copies of her book The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic (Friday October 4, 4.30pm) Meet illustrator Millie Marotta at Rossiter Books, Monmouth and Rosson-Wye: Chat to Millie and discover her brand new book, A Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals (Saturday October 5, Monmouth 11am-12pm; Ross-on-Wye 1pm-2pm) Tom Fletcher signing at WHSmith, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol: One of the UK's bestselling authors for children signs copies…

“I’m not sure why I began producing these studies in form,” says Andrew. “Perhaps it was my interest in the work of artists like Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Eduardo Chillida that made me want to explore shapes. I started by working in black, grey and white, and, through a friend’s suggestion, tried to explore the possibilities of interlocking shapes more fully, so developed into using colour.” Andrew is from London and has featured in Street Art many times over the last several years, working across a range of mediums from painting to poetry. He has struggled with mental health problems since 1986. The work on this page is created by people who are marginalised. Contact street.lights@bigissue. com to see your art here. To see more and buy prints: bigissueshop.com…

01 Browse edited by Henry Hitchings  In 2016 esteemed editor Henry Hitchings asked 15 of his favourite authors to pen an ode to the bookshop which had most impacted their life and work. The result is this magical carpet ride around the globe, stopping off to visit the beloved hermitages of the likes of Ali Smith, Andrey Kurkov, Dorthe Nors, Elif Shafak and Iain Sinclair. Dreamy. 02 The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad For more than 20 years Sultan Khan endured interrogation and imprisonment by the Afghan authorities for smuggling books to grateful readers. Seierstad tells the fascinating story of Khan and his family in the most febrile of environments. 03 The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Through the story of Mrs Green’s modest little new bookshop in Fifties Suffolk,…

When we first see Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in Judy, she is not so much over the rainbow as over the hill. The year is 1969, and the beloved actress and singer has been reduced to performing late-night cash-in-hand gigs at low-rent LA clubs. She has her two youngest children in tow, possibly to save money on a babysitter, but even though the environs are a little shabby and Garland initially looks drawn and tired, taking the stage seems to relight some inner fire. She comes alive in performance, a reawakening captured in reverent slow-motion over the opening credits. This textured biopic is not particularly interested in mapping out how the iconic Wizard of Oz star ended up ostracised by a movie industry she practically helped create. It is…

A hand up, not a handout... Our sellers BUY every copy of the magazine for £1.25 and sell it for £2.50. Trade, not aid… Which is why we ask you to ALWAYS take your copy of the magazine. Our sellers are working and need your custom. Poverty is indiscriminate… That is why we provide ANYONE whose life is blighted by poverty with the opportunity to earn a LEGITIMATE income. The right to citizenship… The Big Issue Foundation, our charitable arm, helps sellers tackle social and financial exclusion. Prevention… Big Issue Invest offers backing and investments to social enterprises, charities and businesses which deliver social value to communities.…

Labradoodle creator Wally Conron said the dogs are his “life’s regret” and he thinks people should stop breeding them. If you could guarantee there would be no health issues which two animals would you breed to create your dream pet? @jill_derby I’ve been saying for years I want a domestic cat-sized elephant. @jessieatkinsonx A fox and a manatee I reckon. @mlftwtx3 Beautiful dogs! Weird he considers this a mistake or thinks people shouldn’t still be breeding them! @Jenniferlayne53 Health considerations would be my first concerns – and I lived with my perfect two pets – didn’t breed them, they came as they were. @LesPaulCustom79 They are very smart good-natured dogs, I have known friends with several.…

Just before the First World War among a class of people who were well-off and educated, beneficiaries of the plenty of the empire at home and abroad, there developed a sense of “enough is enough”. Or you might call it a resolution to break open the seemingly oppressive prosperity and sameness of everyday life. In the advantage of our later years looking back we might call this a fatalism, or even a passion for bloodletting. A desire to break open a compromise, to destroy and end. Even if it meant sacrifice; and even death. It seemed that Europe and its white-led colonies were united in this ‘champing at the bit’ to get on with it. And this transformed itself, this desire for action, into an intense passion for the war…

“Education is key,” Owen says. “The last public awareness campaign that we had was those tombstone adverts in the Eighties. I don’t know how we can re-educate people on what it’s like to live healthily with HIV today when the last touchstone that people have is that. “We need sex education on a broad scale that teaches everyone about HIV, whether they’re from an at-risk group or not. That’s when the stigmatisation starts to drop, and that’s one thing we could do really easily. And we’re not.”…

Birds are my calendar. Species define the days that become the months, that turn, by avian alchemy, into seasons. It began this year in mid-August with three straight days of torrential rain. The temperature had fallen by a quarter, and the air felt cleansed by the rain, the mugginess of the Scottish summer washed away. With it, the swifts departed, the swallow flocks had thinned and great growths of mushrooms sprouted out of the verges, by the paths and in the parks. And we were poised between two seasons. I felt like I could set myself a stopwatch for the next month, to time the exact moment autumn arrives. We all have our own signifiers, our own ideas of what constitutes autumn and the beginning of it. Although the Met…

Founding Pink Floyd member Roger Waters hit the road in 2010 with an epic staging of concept album The Wall that became both one of the highest-grossing rock tours of all time and, in 2014, a celebrated documentary. His recent follow-up tour Us + Them applied similarly large-scale theatrical effects to a career- spanning setlist, including early Floyd classics and tracks from his solo albums. This new concert film, shot during a four-night stand in Amsterdam last year, will be perfect for fans who wished they were there. Roger Waters: Us + Them is in cinemas on October 2 and 6…