Innholdsfortegnelse for 7/12/2021 i The Big Issue

The Big Issue is launching a talent programme for young people who struggle to land work in the media. The Breakthrough programme will offer opportunities to talented 18 to 24-year-olds from underrepresented and less privileged backgrounds who are passionate about a career in the media industry. Working with the DWP’s Kickstart scheme, The Big Sssue will offer four places, based in London, to create a youth-led unit within the multi award-winning media arm of the business. The scheme will offer training across all aspects of journalism including digital, social, video, audio, design and writing. The four recruits will work on a live product from day one. They will curate a dedicated content channel on bigissue.com and contribute to an annual print supplement to The Big Sssue magazine. They will tackle…

Re: Former Big Issue vendor Sean McEvoy moving on after getting two jobs I agree on his experience of transferable skills. My first job after selling The Big Issue for two years was telephone marketing research. Pretty much same cold-calling techniques but in a dry, warm place, sitting down 8 hours a day. Missed the real smiles! Emilia Teglia, Facebook /bigissueUK @bigissue @allyc375 Another interesting convo on my travels was with Peter, a @BigIssue vendor. He was helping other homeless guys by signposting them to where they could get help. It was a very enlightening conversation. @DemirevaNeli Tessa Boase writes in the latest @BigIssue about Etta Lemon, the forgotten figure behind RSPB – a formidable character of single mindedness and brusqueness [The woman who ruffled feathers, June 28]. The principle…

“It’s a pleasure to look at you. I’m sure many people have said you’re nice to look at.” They haven’t. “I think you should maybe get up on stage and say… look at me.” Captain Kirk famously explored a strange new female of a different species in most episodes of Star Trek. Ho wonder then that William Shatner’s opening line – simply to confirm the Zoom call is working – is a barrage of disarming charm. I explain that I couldn’t be like him, somebody who everyone turns to look at when walking into a room. That seems like a nightmare. “It is a nightmare!” he shouts. “Especially if you have a pimple on your nose. They would say, ‘Oh, look at him, he’s got a pimple on his nose,…

The day before I opened Victoria Mas’ debut novel, The Mad Women’s Ball , Britney Spears was telling a US judge how she had been stripped of her human rights aǼter her breakdown. So I was already thinking about the way in which women’s trauma is used to subjugate them as I embarked on this tale of life in Paris’s Salpêtrière asylum. It is a gothic, feminist book inspired by the strange goings-on inthe mental hospital in the late 19th century,when neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot held sway.The female inmates – some of them committed for prostitution – were exhibited like circus freaks to an audience riveted by their afflictions. In public ‘lectures’, Charcot would hypnotise his chosen patient until she entered a state of abandonment close to sexual frenzy. The highlight…

Mosley: It’s Complicated Streaming from July 19 The death of Max Mosley at the end of May brings with it, inevitably, added interest and weight to a new documentary feature about his life and work. Entitled Mosley: It’s Complicated, the film was made with his full co-operation and involvement, and as we know now, he was battling cancer. It’s billed as a ‘no-holds-barred’ study of Mosley, although that might be overstating the case somewhat. Nonetheless, it follows the story of the stigma left by his father’s political beliefs (among the guests at his parents’ wedding was Adolf Nitler, and there’s an underlying question as to how much a parent’s legacy should define their child), and demonstrates how Mosley found his own place in the world through motorsport. Firstly as a…

In 1996, when I was 11, I stayed up late to watch the Mercury Music Prize ceremony. Pulp, Oasis, and Manic Street Preachers were nominated, alongside the War Child Help compilation, which featured both Oasis and Manic Street Preachers and was obligatory to every CD shelf of the era. Back then scruffy, stand-offish guitar music was king, but the Mercurys always reserved one nomination for what the music press would term the ‘token jazz album’.’ I remember Pulp’s Di›ferent Class, which I had on cassette and adored, being named the winner. Nowever, any memory I have of the band receiving their gong is clouded out by Courtney Pine’s performance of the 37th Chamber, from his album Modern Day Jazz Stories, the ‘token jazz’ selection that year. I can look back…

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. Which English singer/ songwriter’s two studio albums are called I Cry When I Laugh and Always in Between? 2. Who wrote the 1952 novel Invisible Man? 3. In which year did the Falklands War between the UK and Argentina take place? 4. Which football legend was born on June 23 1972 in Marseille? 5. Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce and Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan were characters in which long-running US TV show? 6. In which museum is the Mona Lisa on display? 7. Where would you find Mare Tranquillitatis? 8. What are the names of Alan Partridge’s son and daughter? 9. If your bungalow is decorated…

Intrepid Big Issue vendor Richard Cotterill has had to put his mammoth John o’Groats to Land’s End walk on hold due to injury. Last week we reported that the 47-year-old had reached the halfway point on his journey after setting off from the tip of Scotland in May in search of freedom and wellbeing. But doctors have now advised Richard to rest for four weeks after he suffered ligament damage and a slight fracture in his right ankle while climbing a hill near in Keighley in West Yorkshire. Richard has returned home to Wadebridge in Cornwall for his recovery but plans to pick up where he left off in Rochdale, near Manchester, as soon as he is able. Richard told The Big Sssue: “St’s disappointing but S’m realising already that…

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…

30,000 people die from flu and pneumonia in a bad flu season, with a loss of around 250,000 life years – a sixth of the life years lost to Covid-19 1.5 million potential years of life were lost in the UK to Covid-19 deaths during the first year of the pandemic. On average, each of the 146,000 people who died with Covid-19 lost 10.2 years of life. (The Health Foundation) Did the PM honeymoon in an amber-list country and break the rules? Read all our Fact/Fictions online at bigissue.com/ tag/fact-fiction/…

Fifty years ago, the British space programme had a problem. Through the 1950s and ’60s, while the Soviets and United States traded places at the forefront of the space race, the UK was trying not to lag too far behind. We developed the Black Arrow, a rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit. In June 1969, the month before Saturn V blasted man to the moon, Black Arrow was launched for the first time from the Woomera Range Complex in South Australia. It failed and fell back to Earth within a minute. Launch two, a suborbital test in March 1970, was more successful. Launch three in September 1970, another failure. On July 29 1971, the government announced the cancellation of the Black Arrow programme. However, because the next rocket had…

Recently, Marina Sirtis, who played Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation talked about returning to England after 35 years in the US because of the rise of the right – despite some Trump supporters purporting to be Star Trek fans. She said: “They obviously aren’t watching the same show that everyone else is. And they are the reason S’ve come home, actually. Sf you have a heart and a soul and if you care about humanity, you can’t live in America. “Trump ripped the plaster off and all the evil has come pouring out. Ne’s not gone, because he’s living in their hearts.” The interview generated debate online after one tweeter shared their take on the series: @Rhoniedotcom Ms. Sirtis said she could not understand how a…

I am not in any way a morbid person. The concept of death, in general, is not something I’ve ever made peace with. I am perfectly happy to assume that I, all my loved ones, and everybody’s pets, are immortal, destined to live, peacefully, forever.This illusion has become rather difficult to maintain, however, now that a significant part of my professional life is focused on the inevitable destruction of the universe itself. Like many people, my fascination with the universe started at the beginning. As a kid, I was a tinkerer – always taking things apart to see what they were made of – and that need to understand the inner workings of everything naturally extended to the cosmos itself. I became obsessed with questions like “What was the Big…

For the most part, we live a hermetically sealed kind of existence. The perfect temperature can be achieved at the push of a button, dinner can be delivered on cue and communication occurs ever more through screens and devices; we want for nothing apart from the latest something. So the primal chemical surges designed to deliver us through situations of risk – such as hunting, fleeing predators and bashing chests with rivals – still yearn to be released. And hearing that call of the wild, some of us resort to engineering situations that will trigger them. City fight gyms run pricey ‘pretender to contender’ training programmes, designed to give desk jockeys a taste of glory in the boxing ring. And thanks to the exaltations of Russell Brand, Liam Nemsworth and…

It’s a little bit emotional as it’s the end of an era for Boycie and me Last week was my final week as a Big Issue vendor. I started full-time work on July 7 at The Pack Norse in a place called South Stoke in Bath. I had a trial the Saturday before and that went really well. I went in and I worked the evening shift, it was pretty cool. I found it a bit weird being back in a commercial kitchen because I hadn’t actually worked in one for 18 years. It was a little bit unusual because I didn’t think I would be doing a shift, I just thought I’d be there observing so I’m glad I went there prepared. I was only on starters so it…

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Going to free museums has got even more difficult because of Covid, unless you are internet-savvy, and unless the museum has used logic on its internet site. Two museums, Tate Britain and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, do not use logic but a kind of circuitous and to me tortuous labyrinth as, at the same time, they ask you a number of questions. You may ponder and wonder why I am even bothering with this kind of problem when, as of yet, the government has still not alerted us to how they are going to keep hundreds of thousands of people in their homes due to job losses created by the pandemic. I might be accused of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, something I’ve accused many others of, going…

Rene is in her nineties and suffers from arthritis and a degenerative eye condition. Following the death of her husband and son, she experienced a period of homelessness. At a low point one of her friends invited her to attend an art project and she has been returning ever since. Several of her works have since been published, exhibited and sold. The daughter of an architect, Rene enjoys making intricate collages of geometric shapes and lines often using materials cut out of magazines, but for health reasons it has become increasingly challenging. “I’m using coloured paper these days,” she explains, “cutting my own, simple, shapes. I got inspired by a Matisse exhibition – ill health made him change his approach. I don’t rush it, I take my time.” The work…

01 The Stick Book by Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield From building a den to making a magic wand, the possibilities of what kids can do with sticks are endless. This wonderful book has 70 activities for your troopers’ “sticky fingers”. 02 Where’s Wally? by Martin Handford So much more than a spotting book, it is packed with games, creative activities and perplexing puzzles. You may even forget to find Wally. 03 Ada Twist’s Big Project Book for Stellar Scientists by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts The perfect book for kids who ask why? how? what? when? and then why? again. Ada will inspire your kids to get curious about science and – who knows – maybe help unleash their inner Einstein. 04 101 Things For Kids to do…