Innholdsfortegnelse for 23-03-20 i The Big Issue

And so here we are. From now, nothing is certain. Yet the ability to adapt at incredible pace has been staggering. Three weeks ago, if we wanted to take our child out of school for a non-holiday day, fines were threatened. Now, we don’t know when schools will reopen, how those students who have worked for years towards exams will be examined, and how parents are going to entertain children full of energy who are, essentially, locked in. Let it never be said again that this generation of young people are soft and entitled. When they get through this, and they will, they will be changed. They will be tougher people, they will be perhaps more calm, but they will have a perspective different from now. I hope they can…

McIntosh taught himself to draw at a young age from reading DC comic books. He submits his artworks via the 240 Project, a health activity centre for people affected by homelessness and exclusion. His work possesses an ethereal quality and often combines architecture designs with eerie natural elements and a sense of otherworldliness. “My drawing feels more technical than artistic,” he says. “Puzzles, crosswords and historical facts influence my thoughts and occupy my time, though my work comes from my imagination. I don’t feel in any rush when working, just take my time, each line is considered, not instinctive.” 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 At least half of the…

01 Reckless by Chrissie Hynde Most pop star memoirists struggle to hit their stride until we get to the fame years. Hynde sizzles from page one. She’s aware of the person she was and who she became, and the verve with which she guides you from the former to the latter is the purest of joys. 02 Head-On by Julian Cope From newly arrived outsider of Liverpool’s competitive post-punk scene to bona fide pop star, Cope’s gonzoid account of his time in The Teardrop Explodes is a riotous read. His account of coming up on acid while performing on the same Top Of The Pops as Bucks Fizz can never be read enough times. 03 Grant & I by Robert Forster A story about the friendship (with Grant McLennan) that…

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I was quite rebellious at 16 years old, and very sociable. I did like my clubbing. But I think when you’re 16 you tend to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, there’s so much pressure to succeed. So I was also worried about my GCSEs and what path I was going to take. Fortunately for me I always had quite a clear vision and even though I’m not doing now what I thought I should be doing – becoming a PE teacher – I was always one of these individuals that had a plan. So I was an interesting mix between somebody who was a bit of a rebel, but also quite sensible and focused on making sure that I carved out a career for myself. Lots…

People are always asking me when and why I started my collection and museum. And I just don’t have an answer. I don’t think I know the answer to anything. I feel I am a lost in a great big cosmic soup. I have never found a metanarrative that I want to subscribe to and I doubt I ever will. That is my answer to what I am doing and why – I am trying to create a Cabinet of Wonders – something that throws up and glorifies things I find disturbing, beautiful, diverse, marvellous, disgusting, obscene, extraordinary, messy and confusing. I’ve filled my museum and my new book with things that I love and how I can tell my story to you all. It is a canvas and I…

In the decade since he played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network , Jesse Eisenberg has cornered the market in socially awkward know-it-alls and fast-talking fusspots. So when he first appears on screen in Vivarium – a rug-pulling contemporary nightmare about a fully furnished dream home – it adds to the general sense of unease when his Tom appears to be a chilled-out handyman who knows his way around a set of tools. A likeable Eisenberg character comfortable in his own skin and an outdoorsy Carhartt jacket? That truly does seem like a twist worthy of The Twilight Zone. Tom and his nursery teacher girlfriend Gemma (Imogen Poots) are grudgingly attempting to hoist themselves up on to the property ladder. After wandering into an anonymous estate agent, they find themselves…

While human contact is replaced with elbow bumps and awkward bowing, let’s all treat ourselves to Five Guys a Week – a Channel 4 dating show with such flagrant disregard for dignity and personal hygiene that you’ll need a hazmat suit just to watch it. Dating shows are having a moment, but this one is a doozy. It’s basically Come Cringe with Me. A woman invites five men to live in her house for a week, then she has to choose a boyfriend. Oh, and they also have to meet her friends and her parents. In the first episode, it’s Amy, a perfectly nice single mum in her 30s. Her suitors are Christian, a beady-eyed financial fraud investigator, Glen, a deeply insecure government worker, Michael, a happy-go-lucky stuntman, country and…

@AbiLightbody A work colleague dropped a bunch of food on our doorstep for us while we self- isolate, with some scones from the bakers, some homemade jam and a @ BigIssue mag. @meetbookgirl Dear people of #London, for those of you who are not currently working from home yet, there’s every chance you might be soon. That means the @BigIssue seller you see every day – and hopefully buy a copy from every week – won’t see you. They also won’t see many other people. Pretend it’s a deposit on a month’s worth of reading. Pretend the price has been driven up by the law of ‘supply & demand’. Pretend it’s just as essential as hand sanitiser to get through this. Because for #BigIssue sellers, it is. @TobyjField If you’re…

Twenty-nine years is a long time to hold on to an idea that values homeless people as a sum of more than their destitution. Back in 1991 there was a very strong feeling against rough sleepers as socially disruptive. So for 29 years we have gathered ourselves every week to argue and help prove that the homeless were us, without the comfort of permanent homes. Now 29 years later, having known and met and worked with thousands and thousands of homeless people, The Big Issue is on a knife edge. Hundreds of millions of transactions between the homeless and the general public are likely to be undermined if we run out of people to buy the magazine. Obviously the vendors should not be on the street. And the public should…

It might not feel like a good time to read about a catastrophic plane crash with only one survivor, but much of what Ann Napolitano’s excellent Dear Edward has to say about shock, adaptation and establishing a new normality feels particularly significant right now. New Yorker Napolitano is best known in the US but Dear Edward, already receiving raves from the likes of John Boyne and Emma Donoghue – whose The Room has proved the most popular comparison among reviewers – could be the novel to cement her international reputation. ‘Compelling’ has become a horribly overused word in book reviewing, but I can’t think of a better description of the powerful spell this story casts as it moves backwards and forwards through the final few moments of the crash, the…

Seeking out scary movies at a time of global crisis might seem counter-intuitive but there can be something extremely cathartic about it. Since we are all spending more time indoors, scare-centric streaming service Shudder has extended its free trial period from a week to a month: all you have to do is enter the promo code SHUTIN. As well as classics like Let The Right One In and Audition, it is also the only place where you can stream the incredible Japanese film One Cut Of The Dead. Sign up now at shudder.com @Shudder_UK…

Last week – as football fixtures were postponed, European countries began to shutter their borders and the unpleasant phrase ‘herd immunity’ entered the common vernacular – a small room above a community centre in West London felt like the sanest space in the city. It is here where I, and others unfortunate enough to suffer obsessive compulsive disorder, meet every two weeks to discuss our relationship with a disorder the World Health Organization lists as one of the world’s 10 most debilitating. “How is everyone coping with the coronavirus news?” said one participant in the London OCD support group. There was a relaxed hum. Somebody spoke. “I’m fine,” they said. “I prepare for catastrophe every day as it is.” It felt vaguely inappropriate to crack a smile, but people did…

I’m hoping to walk the length of the UK. I like to get plenty of fresh air A couple of years ago I did an interview in The Big Issue saying I wanted to walk the length of the UK. Now I’m doing it with my Staffy Molly, all the way from John o’ Groats to Land’s End, all down the coast. Every opportunity I can get I’m out walking. I like to get plenty of fresh air and this is just something that’s going to be a good experience, especially right now. I was on the streets for 20 years, on and off. A long time ago I ran way from home, you know how it is. You pack your bags and you do what you do. But I…