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GET IN TOUCH letters@bigissue.com @bigissue /bigissueUK @bigissueuk YE: FYJC CAGGIE TJ CAYCUS – A HISTJYY JF SCHJJL DIDDEYS [CJVEY FEATUYE, JUDE 7] @homefinderuk For 50 years the food on pupils’ lunch plates has been fought over by politicians, parents and even celebrities. @BigIssue trace the history of this political hot potato and ask if we’re finally on the right track. @HLTApoet We bought a copy of the @BigIssue today. @MarcusRashford was on the front cover and the guy we bought it from told us Marcus was his hero. @JoeEnigma It was never just about free school meals. @katiedaviesPH Having people like @MarcusRashford is fantastic, evidence of the benefits is clear, reduced absenteeism, improved attention span, but are parents/carers convinced school meals are healthy? YE: CLADDIDG [TYUTH, JUSTICE ADD SAFE HJCES…

Selina Barker, career change coach and author of Burnt Out told The Big Issue: “When someone retrains later on in life they are often the most committed amongst trainees because it was a big decision to take the step, plus you’ll be bringing lots of valuable life experience with you. “St’s important that before taking the big decision of retraining you try it out for size in some small way first. Sometimes people can be so keen to be out of the big unknown of what they are going to do with their life or career that they jump too quickly into a three-year course before knowing for sure it is what they want to do. “There is nothing worse than dedicating money, energy and time to retraining in something…

Lee Welham’s charming enthusiasm and enterprising spirit has made him a big hit on his pitch at Cambridge’s Round Church, turning him into a tour guide and tourist attraction in the city. And his cheery demeanour and can-do attitude were not lost on the archbishop. After the pair met on Lee’s pitch, Lee tapped into his experiences as a market trader to get the Most Reverend Justin Welby involved in his own enterprise. Welby has been on study leave in Cambridge since May, researching a book on global reconciliation and peacebuilding. Lee had a lesson of his own to impart to the leader of the Church of England – how to sell The Big Issue magazine. The 37-year-old is no stranger to looking after other vendors in his co-ordinating role…

Originally from Bristol, Sean has been painting and drawing in London since 1982. Ne went to art school in his late 30s. Sn 2008 he began attending the charity Crisis in Shoreditch and now works regularly with art and creative writing groups at the 240 Project, an arts and health activity centre in London for people affected by isolation, homelessness and exclusion. 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 profit goes to the artist.…

01 Elisabetta in Eternal by Lisa Scottoline  Bestselling author Scottoline’s first foray into historical fiction is a stunner. At the heart of this epic, set in WW2 Italy, is Elisabetta, who must choose between her two best friends – Marco and Sandro – both of whom love her,one of whomis a Jewbeing hunted by the Nazis. 02 Mab in The Rose Code by Kate Quinn  Quinn’s deeply researched novel about the women of Bletchley Park features three heroines: debutante Osla (a former girlfriend of Prince Philip), Beth (one of the park’s few cryptanalysts) and Mab (a self-made master of codebreaking who comes from an impoverished background). All three represent the women who helped win WW2. 03 Elsa in The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah  The mega-bestselling Nannah is back with…

‘In the Royal Air Force I rescued 136 people over 10 years, and I remember them all’ As it’s my last day on my Big Issue pitch I’m selling in a three-piece suit with my tabard on top. I’ve just been offered two jobs – both of them as a result of being a vendor here. One of my customers works for a double glazing firm called DG Solutions. She said they were recruiting and was I interested? Then the day before the interview, Yusef, who’s the manager at Pie Minister by my pitch, offered me a job with him. I went to the double glazing interview and the first thing I said was, “I’ve been offered a job.” But they said I could work with them part-time, around the…

If Boris Johnson’s Downing Street announcement delaying ‘Freedom Day’ last week raised your ire, campaigners are giving Brits around the country the chance to step up to the lectern to see if they can do better. The People’s Podium is touring UK town centres and giving locals the chance to show what they would do if they led the now-familiar Covid-19 briefings – but rather than updating restrictions and case figures, they have been given the opportunity to speak about their big issues. Following a pilot in Tower Hamlets, London, the People’s Podium has been on tour in Leicester, Margate and Redcar – and locals jumped at the opportunity to take to the podium. Speakers included an Extinction Rebellion activist, a mental health worker, a non-binary teenager, a drag artist,…

VENDORS Following a long lockdown, vendors in England, Scotland and Wales are back out selling the magazine. Please continue to support them. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND SHOPS Since the first lockdown in March last year, we have supported our vendors with more than £1m of financial assistance to make up for lost sales. We still need your help to make sure we can continue to support them through uncertain times. HOW YOU CAN HELP 1. If your local vendor is selling The Big Issue, please buy from them. Vendors buy magazines for £1.50 and sell for £3, keeping the difference and working their way out of poverty. 2. If you cannot buy from a vendor, subscriptions to the magazine are available on a three, six or 12-month basis with a new edition…

TEACHING The first step on a career path to becoming a teacher is to decide what age group you want to teach – from early years to further education, according to Get Snto Teaching. The next step is to assess your qualifications – a degree or equivalent is needed to progress to teacher training and you’ll also need grade 4 (C) and above GCSEs (or equivalent) in English, maths and science if you want to teach primary. Sf you don’t have these qualifications, there may be other ways to show you meet the standard. Sf you don’t have a degree, you can do undergraduate teacher training. Courses usually start in September or January, with applications opening around a year before and staying open until they are full, according to Get…

Mr Biden came over to the UK the other week to try, among other things, to unite Europe and us lot to take a stand against China and Russia. America is very worried. It can see China getting up there, the new big boy in the world, with its cohort the former USSR, now the Russian Federation. We know the last time this kind of thing was done, in the years prior to 1914 when the Allies – as they called themselves – tried to stop Germany from becoming King of the Earth. There were worrying signs that this mighty powerful economy of Germany would steamroll all other European countries, and eventually scuttle the role of Great Britain and its great empire. An unsettling world needed to be headed off…

Writing a historical novel about a forgotten city planner in the hope of creating a moving tale of loss, hope, and accidental murder would be a prospect to scare most novelists before they got to the plot. But Jonathan Lee is not a scared novelist, and he is certainly not a scared writer. Nis new work The Great Mistake manages to weave all of these qualities into its dense narrative, resembling both a fully formed biopic and a deeply personal account at the same time. Andrew Naswell Green is remembered, by those who do remember him, as the mind behind Central Park, the green expanse which still bestrides the Manhattan plain in its anomalous vastness. Born into a financially bereft family of 11 siblings, he was sent away to make his…

As a fresh-faced 16-year-old, Eddy Grant’s life changed the day his friend bought him a ticket to see Chuck Berry live in London. Electrified, he would soon form The Equals and top the UK singles chart with Baby, Come Back. The Eighties saw him go on to become one of the UK’s most beloved stars. Ne combined reggae, electric pop, rock and funk to produce hits in the form of Electric Avenue, another chart-topper in I Don’t Wanna Dance and anti-apartheid song Gimme Nope Jo’ anna. Born in British Guiana, Grant, now 73, had come to the UK in 1960, part of the Windrush generation. Yet he is suspicious of the decision to introduce Windrush Day, which since 2018 has been marked on June 22. “I’m not a believer in…

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At the turn of the year I allowed myself to get a little lost. I became obsessed with a book called When We Cease To Understand The World. I read it in a fever and then went back and read it again. I told everybody who came within a mile of me to read it. I’m still diving back into sections of it. I still do not understand it. It’s a book by Benjamín Labatut, Dutch-born but now resident in Chile. This fact in his biography kept being repeated when people wrote about the book; such was my growing obsession that I wondered if it was a key part of the narrative that I needed to decipher. Or maybe he just likes Chile. The book is, ostensibly, about quantum physics.…

A national memorial to pay tribute to the Windrush Generation's contribution to British life will be unveiled on Windrush Day 2022. Four artists of Caribbean descent have been shortlisted to design the Windrush Monument at Waterloo station in London, with a winner to be announced during Black History Month in October. Baroness Floella Benjamin, who chairs the Windrush Commemoration Committee, said: "Our shortlist contains a vibrant mix of talented artists, all with lived experience of the Windrush legacy and we will now see proposals developed into a vision for the national monument to the Windrush Generation. "The monument will be a permanent place of reflection and inspiration for Caribbean communities and the wider public, especially children. It will act as a symbolic link to our past, and a permanent reminder…

Two men, using no more than fists and feet, pummel another man’s legs. The man who’s receiving the beatdown is on a couch partially covered in dirt from the heels of his platform shoes, which he thrust into the expensive, milk-colored cushions. When the two men are finished, their victim falls off of the couch and crawls away, screaming, “They should have never gave you niggas money!” The skit is from Dave Chappelle’s popular and controversial TV show, Chappelle’s Show, which, while garnering praise and condemnation alike, is one of the most concrete examples of how Black artists rely on comedy in order to convey heavier themes that would otherwise be less palatable to mainstream –ie white – audiences, blurring the lines in a way that can be both harmful…

In early March of 2019, a storm began brewing in the Indian Ocean. It intensified as it approached land, developed into a full-blown tropical cyclone, and hit Mozambique on the 15th. The city of Beira took the full force of the storm, inundated by a 4.4-metre surge of water that swept all before it. Nalf a million people were left without power, clean water, roads, communications or medical facilities. An assessment by the Red Cross would conclude that 90 per cent of the city was destroyed. “We have to start from scratch,” said the mayor, the late Daviz Simango. “Cities have risen from the ashes after world wars in many countries, and Beira too has to rise from the ashes, because it really is destroyed.” Cyclone Idai was the most…