Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/25/2021 i The Big Issue

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL VENDOR 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…

I have always been an Ingredientist. As far as I know this intellectual concept has not been formally named yet, but it does not stop me from sitting and thinking about the ingredients that make up a thing – the “thing” being a loaf of bread, for instance, or a social collapse. In 1893, at the Chicago World Fair, a radical German baker, according to Simeon Giedion in his book Space, Time and Architecture, introduced a new kind of bread. The traditional loaf took about 40 minutes to bake. The radical baker could turn out bread in four minutes. His method was aeration. You pump hot air into dough and inflate it. You end up with the modern loaf of white bread that hundreds of millions of us in the…

The environmental sector ranks the second-worst for diversity in the UK. Just 3.1 per cent of workers are from minority backgrounds, according to a 2017 study from think tank Policy Exchange, with only farming faring worse at 1.4 per cent. Just 0.6 per cent of environment professionals are people of colour. That’s a big problem, AFC head of programmes Laura Kravac tells The Big Issue, with “climate change impacting people from ethnic minority backgrounds and in the global south disproportionately”. AFC is one of 30 environmental partner charities to launch Race for Nature’s Recovery, a scheme deploying the government’s Kickstart scheme – six-month placements for people aged 16-24 – to address racial inequity in the sector. The Big Issue spoke to four inspiring young people of colour in the conservation…

BOOKS Taking a different journey to find the real Shane MacGowan Richard Balls FILM Movie-style climate change is unpredictable, just like the weather Graeme Virtue TV Seinfeld’s George is emerging as an unlikely post-lockdown hero Lucy Sweet 240 Project Art Exhibition The 240 Project, an activity centre in London supporting vulnerable adults, is having its annual art exhibition. There will be work for sale, as well as mugs, cards and bags all designed by the project’s members – many of whom appear frequently in Big Issue Street Art. The artwork pictured, titled Discarded, is by Rene Robbins. The Tabernacle, London, October 28-31; 240project.org.uk 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…

A clattering sound was emanating from the stage at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where I had turned up to see Elvis Costello and the Attractions. One of this motley crew playing support was smashing himself over the head with a tin tray. The singer was clearly out of it. A poster told me they were The Pogues and had an album called Red Roses for Me. I was 17 and had no reference points for what I was seeing and hearing. I stood there transfixed. Fast forward 28 years and I found myself outside a private clinic in Belgravia, waiting for the heavy door to open and Shane MacGowan to appear. I had arranged to meet up and interview him for a book about Stiff Records. The…

letters@bigissue.com Sound people It was only after reading Big Issue book of Letters to My Younger Self, which I was given for Christmas two years ago, that I began buying The Big Issue from the Frome, Somerset vendor who sat quietly smiling at passers-by on a corner near Boots on Saturdays. Because I’m very deaf I didn’t hear all she said, but learned that her husband sat on the footbridge over the river where he played his accordion. He was always smiling when people passed between the car park/market stalls and shops. He played jolly tunes which cheered people up. Lockdown prevented our vendor and her husband from coming, so we missed them. Then once restrictions were lifted I saw a young lady at that corner selling The Big Issue,…

Can you picture 50 trillion dollars? It’s quite a lot. Fifty trillion dollar bills stacked one on top of each other would easily reach into space. Laid out, they would cover nearly 200,000 square miles, almost the size of France. The likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the richest people on earth, enjoy a personal wealth of around $200 billion each – a figure that is smaller than one per cent of $50 trillion. Considered in the abstract like this, $50tn is an incomprehensible sum of money. But what if you were told it was also the total price of tackling climate change globally and saving the planet for ever? Estimates as to this figure vary in reality, depending on various factors, and the true picture of climate economics…

With COP26 approaching, it’s more vital than ever that young global voices are heard. The decisions that are made now are pivotal. All the decisions which have led to the climate crisis, or which have helped mitigate some impacts, are vital, but as we get close to the global point of no return, they’re becoming even more so. In Tomorrow is Too Late, I hope to help share the stories and solutions of these incredible young people. I have learned so much from working with them, and I hope readers will learn just as much. They have so many different stories to tell. Tales of the impact of the crisis in their homelands, discussions of how the crisis and activism has impacted their mental health, messages for fellow young activists…

01 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson A classic of the haunted house genre, this is more about female repression than ghosts. The house itself feels malevolent, eating the identity of women. The mundanity of the domestic details in Jackson’s narrative throw the creepiness into sharp contrast. 02 The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill I find this scarier than The Woman in Black. Haunted pictures. Brr. There’s a lot of polite toing and froing about who gets to have a cursed painting – it’s all so British. 03 Agata’s Machine by Camilla Grudova All of The Doll’s Alphabet is unsettling, full of decay and tinned meat obsessions, but Agata’s Machine, a story about a haunted sewing machine that projects the ghost of a scary, sexy clown,…

Anyone aged 13 or under can enter. Post your entries to: Christmas Kids Cover Competition, The Big Issue, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 1HW or email high-resolution pictures to: editorial@bigissue.com. Make sure to include THE BIG ISSUE on the cover and send it to us by November 22. Don’t forget to include a name, age, address and telephone or email contact on all entries. We can’t return artwork but will print as many pictures as we can squeeze on to the page. All entries will also feature in a spectacular online gallery!…

1. Which UK band’s last Top 10 hit single in their native country was Precious in 2005? 2. How many former UK prime ministers are still alive (and name them)? 3. In which UK city would you find the Walker Art Gallery? 4. According to offical data, what was the most popular name for baby boys in the UK in 2020...? 5. … and what was the most popular name for baby girls? 6. Which African country has the largest population? 7. What is Brad Pitt’s real first name? 8. Which motorcycle manufacturer made the Tiger Sport 1050 and the Bonneville T100? 9. Which football club does Delia Smith co-own? 10. What are the two main ingredients in the dish Cullen Skink? 11. What is the Barbie doll’s full name?…

@OccupyLondon What a great account of #OccupyLondon from @BigIssue particularly remembering the man who was already living on the steps of St Paul’s when we turned up, 10 years ago tomorrow. RIP and all love to Jimmy. @lewstringer This week’s @BigIssue features an exclusive cover by @LFORLLOYD and there’s a short interview with him inside too. Available from sellers in most towns and cities today. @TheGrantPerkins That is a beautiful cover. @OliverGoldie1 I enjoyed the V for Vendetta exhibition at the @Cartoonmuseumuk for sure. @OliverGoldie1 Love this image in @BigIssue of the ‘Merkel diamond’ [October 4]. It represents an influential and inclusive leader.…

People read fiction for all sorts of reasons, but one of the main reasons I love doing so is to get a glimpse of the wild and weird imagined worlds of the authors. This week we have two very different but equally inventive journeys into fictitious universes, books that maybe give an insight into the mindsets of their creators. First up is the wonderfully bonkers Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson. The British author is best known for his multi-award winning Wormwood trilogy, books that have set a benchmark for modern science fiction. Far From the Light of Heaven shows an equal breadth of vision to its predecessors, and perfectly balances inspired universe building with both high-octane action and emotional depth. The story focuses on the colony…

Until very recently (ie: last week) the photo on my phone’s lock screen was not of my child, my husband or my dog. It was a pixelated screenshot of George Costanza from Seinfeld, slumped on a sofa with crisps all down the front of his jumper. Why? He’s my hero. If you’ve never seen Seinfeld (and if you haven’t, watch it right now) George is one of life’s biggest losers – or winners, depending on how you look at it. He’s a balding, socially inept, lazy ingrate who lives with his parents and can’t hold down a relationship or a job. And now all nine seasons of the legendary Nineties sitcom have come to Netflix, I anticipate that George will quickly become the poster boy for our postlockdown end times.…

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