Innholdsfortegnelse for 5/31/2021 i The Big Issue

Hail Dave! Dave Martin [Vendor Expert, April 26] has done so well – it must have been so difficult when “he tried his best to fill the long days” but the online art college class and the studio seem to have been very successful. Good for Dave, and good for the trusty customers who support him. Personal stories like this are so good to read. Juliet Chaplin, Cheam, Sutton Sax appeal Thank you for the article about Shabaka Hutchings [May 10]. I admit we were watching the streamed concert from the Barbican mainly because of the two Copland pieces, and because my son was conducting – but Hutchings’ improvisation with an extended demo of circular breathing was electrifying. The Barbican seems to have removed the video from its site, but…

Richard says: My pack’s going to weigh in the region of 13-14kg without food and water, and that includes a solar panel to charge my phone. I’m taking a tent that’s a kilo heavier than I would normally use but I can’t afford a lightweight one at the moment. And I’m taking my winter sleeping bag, which is half a kilo more than I’d normally carry but in parts of Scotland and the Pennines the temperature can drop so I want to make sure I’m comfortable. Also a stove, a midge hood and some Smidge midge repellant.…

01. SET UP AN ACCOUNT  Once you have downloaded The Big Exchange app, simply enter your email address and create a password. If you are already an investor with The Big Exchange, you will still need to go through this process and then link your investment account. 02. LINK YOUR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS  From the ‘My Money’ tab, click the ‘+’ button to add as many accounts as you like. These can include current and savings accounts, investments, pensions, loans and credit cards. Select the name of your provider from a dropdown list and the app will transfer you to their site where you can log in securely and give permission for them to share your data. You will then be able to see all of your balances – and their…

Our days of being room-bound and housebound and garden-bound appear to be ending. Now we can be expansive, be sporty again. But – with a sigh of relief – I’ll just be walking, just as I’ve been walking for 40-odd years; it’s always an adventure. My short walk – short, long, all outings are good – joins two of central London’s green spots, Hyde Park and Kensington Palace Gardens. Two laps around their edges, plus various distractions, takes me three hours. Setting off early from home, it feels like three hours roaming a rural place; and I enjoy two sorts of walks, subject to the mood I’m in. There is what S call an ‘external’ walk, when S look out to the world, which comes closer on foot. Imell the…

Writer and performer Tova Leigh is behind the enormously successful online videos My Thoughts About Stuff . She is also from Israel, which means people expect her to weigh in on big issues in the Holy Land. But, she asks, why do we care what people with a platform think? I was born in Israel in 1975, my father is Israeli and my mother is from Ireland and moved to Israel when she was 17. I moved to the UK 15 years ago and live with my family in London. Over the past two weeks people have been pressuring me to comment on the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. A few people even messaged to say they were “disappointed” I haven’t said anything. Apparently S’m not the only one who’s been pressured…

This phrase from the world of boxing is extra relatable after a year of disruption knocked all our plans out cold. Former British, Commonwealth and European champion Tony Bellew sets out the lessons he learned in the ring about motivation, resilience and survival. FAILING TO PREPARE IS PREPARING TO FAIL The most important trait I carried through my whole career. In the world of professional boxing you’re thrown in the deep end and you’re swimming with sharks. I made mistakes along the way but one of my greatest strengths is I never dwelled on them. I never gave up, I managed to continue to push on and push, I always carried on believing in myself. You turn failure into opportunity – and it’s quite simple – by never giving up.…

Housing is a devolved issue, so the rules on eviction vary across the UK. In Scotland the eviction ban is still in place for those in tier three and four areas until September 30, though it may be reviewed and lifted sooner. Tenants usually need to be given six months’ notice for eviction. In Wales, the bailiff eviction ban continues until the end of June, similarly, tenants get six months’ notice. There is no eviction ban in Horthern Ireland, and just 12 weeks’ notice for eviction, until the end of September. There is information about your rights, and what landlords can or can’t demand, for all countries of the UK, at shelter.org.uk…

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The skills and staff shortage is getting bigger and wider every day. And there is no way it’s going to get better unless we change our tactics. St’s really a disaster. And S think that if we don’t get our heads out of the sand very soon, we will see the impact in the years to come. There has been a staff and skill shortage since S arrived in the UK in 1992. And that problem got worse and worse. Back in the day, a lot of the manpower would come from mainland Europe. Depending where you were in the country between 20 to 40 per cent – and some would say as much as 50 per cent – of people would be from foreign countries. Then in 2016, Brexit…

The new coronavirus is the eighth known coronavirus that can affect humans The first coronavirus that affected humans was discovered in 1965 by a team led by virologist David Tyrrell at the Common Cold Unit in Wiltshire Alongside Covid-19, human coronaviruses include the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, better known as SARS Will it cost £50bn to fix the cladding crisis? Read all our Fact/Fictions online at bigissue.com/tag/ fact-fiction/…

01 The Shining by Stephen King Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation has become such a cultural icon that it can be hard to put Jack Nicholson out of your mind when reading the book. King’s novel is a terrifying account of one man’s descent into murderous madness. 02 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis  Easton Ellis achieved fame and notoriety with American Psycho. Lunar Park is a more nuanced and reflective book, a fictional memoir in which a successful middle-aged writer is haunted by his own characters, and his dysfunctional relationship with his father. 03 The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan I love Venice, yet the terror with which McEwan imbues the city is enough to put anyone off going there on holiday. The book is about a young couple…

Easily the worst thing about watching the fourth season of Fargo is that I have had to do so on More 4, a channel which actually makes you watch the ad breaks. Can you believe that shit? I mean, at least over on Iky they pay lip service to the advertisers by including ads in their watch-again shows – but allow us, the humble viewers, to fast forward through them. Of course, there might be someone, somewhere, who chooses not to fast forward. Perhaps they find that meerkat funny. Or they are emotionally invested in the travails of the hapless singer off the Go Compare ads. It seems unlikely though. When you’re balls deep in some suspense-rich premium drama you’re unlikely to welcome the interruption of anything, let alone dreary,…

NEED HELP? Why not get together with other Big Issue readers on Twitter – @BigIssue Get the answers in next week's mag! Good luck 1. Who took over as the leader of the Conservative Party after the resignation of John Major following his government’s defeat by Labour at the 1997 general election? 2. Which US musician’s real name is Richard Melville Hall? 3. In which year did the Pompidou Centre in Paris officially open? 4. Which children’s movie series features the character Felonius Gru? 5. Reedpipe, Zampogna and Cornemuse are types of what? 6. The Royal Albert Dock is in which English city? 7. What is the world’s deepest lake? 8. Where does the term mocha come from? 9. Which UK confectionery company introduced the Yorkie and Lion bars in…

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@wolfwinkle Extremely proud to have featured on the front page of this week’s Big Issue! Liz Neville Brilliant! But those boots are too well drawn. You need to get worserer at drawing. Helen Sheard FABULOUS! Utterly deserved accolade... and I bet it’ll also boost the sales of that splendid magazine! Yvonne Rigby Congratulations! Brilliant cover for an important magazine. You even gave the dog a spare leg for the occasion. Janet Diesnis Who else checked to see if the boots were on the right feet? Well done for the cover! letters@bigissue.com…

Bryan Adams: rock star, renowned photographer, great friend of The Big Issue. He has photographed everyone from the Queen to Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse and Mick Jagger, but for a new exhibition in London it is Adams’ portraits of Big Issue vendors that are the focus of attention. The black and white portraits of vendors, taken from 2011-2017 and released in his 2019 book Homeless , are on display in the UK for the first time. And they are stunning. Striking, moving, questioning portraits of people who are so often overlooked or ignored when selling the magazine – some serious, some thoughtful, some, like Sam (right), full of joy and laughter, but each telling a story. And as we emerge from lockdown, perhaps with new perspectives on the importance of…

This 30th year is turning out to be a rock ’n’ roll year. Back when we started The Big Issue life moved slower. Political life by comparison to today was old-fashioned and almost quaint. I was an almost fashionable 45-year-old with DMs and rather ragged, washed-out denim. And some silly little tops, slogan free. It was difficult to see our way forward because this was all new stuff; this intervening in street homelessness. Phil [Ryan] and I, the first person I took on, were spending more time in the West End, for that is where the thousands of homeless people were domiciled on the streets. Domiciled was obviously a silly word to use. As domicile suggests a place to live. The tired, bleary-eyed world of rough sleeping was sucking the…

The coronavirus storm may finally be passing, but the disruption to many people’s personal finances will be felt for some time to come. As we emerge from a third lockdown, we could all use some help with managing our money better to build up some reserves for the future. Last year, we became co-founders of The Big Exchange; a social and environmental investment platform with a mission that aims to help make everyone’s money count for more. Now as part of its continued dedication to making financial services more inclusive and accessible for all, The Big Exchange has developed a completely free mobile app that makes taking control of your financial life easier than ever. Whether you’re an existing customer or not, it enables you to see all of your…

Novels about rock music have not always been successful. In fact, they have rarely been successful. There’s something about the subject matter that defies literary capture – perhaps because it is already too cartoonish, too cliched, to survive the transplant from one artistic field to another. Few authors have the skill to skirt the siren swamp of cheesiness and stereotype and deliver something worthwhile. What space does the decadent, ant-snorting chaos of Ozzy Osbourne’s life leave for fiction? Or the production line of shrink-wrapped boybands? Is there any darker idea than the 27 Club? What could be more extreme than the Mötley Crüe autobiography? And yet, in recent years there has been a consistently fine run of such novels – David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue, rock ’n’ roll sci-fi set amid…

Dream Horse In cinemas from June 4 It’s been pointed out by better people than me that family movies appear to be the wrong way around this spring and summer. That the really good ones – and my eyes are firmly planted on Netflix’s The Mitchells vs The Machines here – are being sent to home streaming platforms, while the ones that ordinarily would have struggled in cinemas are getting the big screen space. It’ll be interesting to see if that oddity course corrects. One live-action family feature that’s been patiently waiting for its chance though is Dream Horse, which tells the real-life tale of a woman working behind a bar in Wales, who convinces the locals to chip in towards a race horse. It’s a film that premiered at…

As is the way for many of us living through the ongoing pandemic upheaval, 2021 has found Travis in a reflective mood. Looking back across their 20-plus year career, the Scottish alternative rockers are reissuing some of their best-loved albums. This month, they’re revisiting their eclectic 2007 release The Boy With No Name. Frontman Fran Nealy says it’s a dense album, “packed with some of our most memorable songs”. Its lead single, Closer – which was released with a touchy-feely video featuring Ben Stiller – certainly feels timely once more. Featuring the refrain “Just need to get closer”, it’s a perfect soundtrack for the return of hugging. Fran talks us through The Music That Made Me, which you can watch online now at bigissue.com. Nere’s a taste of how he…