TV Editor @BigIssue. Freelance culture writer. Trustee @Running_Charity. Derby, Coventry, N London, Glasgow, SE London.
London, England
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Into 2025 with New Year @bigissue. Why a bison? Why not! Pick up a copy from our vendors across the UK to discover more. Happy new year!
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In perhaps his most personal column to date, Big Issue editor Paul McNamee writes about how this time last Christmas, his family was standing on the edge of a deep drop. They just didn’t know it yet. ✍️
Read his words on mental health, transporting trees, and hope. ⬇️
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It was a thrill to represent @BigIssue in this London vs Homelessness match at Kingsmeadow (home of Chelsea FC Women). At 50, I thought I'd hung up my boots (they went to the charity shop in 2015). But I scored in a 7-3 victory! Now we all join forces to tackle rough sleeping…
A true game of two halves, united by a shared cause and commitment to volunteer for Crisis this winter.
Last night, politicians and journalists took to the pitch for the inaugural ‘London VS Homelessness’ match to raise awareness of the urgent need to end rough sleeping by 2030.
ALT Sadiq Khan posing with ‘London VS Homelessness’ crest wearing football gear
ALT Two football teams: reds are politicians and whites are journalists
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Thanks to @BigIssue for the most personal interview ever, promoting #NeverLookAway the Margaret Moth Story!!
“When I found myself pregnant at 19, everyone was mourning the loss of my potential. They thought my life was over. But I didn’t. So I would tell my younger self to remember that life is long.”
Speaking to the Big Issue for her Letter to My Younger Self, Lucy Lawless looks back at her desperation to leave New Zealand at a young age, her surprising aversion to sci-fi and her climate activism. ⬇️
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What is happening!?
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Honoured to pick up Outstanding Contribution to Journalism for @BigIssue at @EditorsUK awards last night. For all who have ever helped put it together and everyone who has ever sold it.
They are playing a string quartet version of Zombie by The Cranberries at the Wolf Hall premiere at the BFI for maximum authenticity…
Brilliant work by Greg on this vital story. Check it out…
Across the UK, a deadly new drug has been linked to 284 fatalities.
In Birmingham alone, nitazenes killed 21 people last summer. Yet few outside the city noticed.
@BigIssue investigates a shocking and hidden tragedy
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Bronski Beat were the ‘first real gay group in the history of pop’ and their repertoire, lyrics, sound & press coverage called for a better future. 🎶
@SussexUni professor Lucy Robinson explains why their activism & politics are still relevant today. ⬇️
bigissue.com/opinion/bronski…
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Huge thank you to @CatSmithMP for asking the PM to meet with the @letsend_poverty coalition ✊
Great to hear Starmer call our #DearPrimeMinister letters - including one from Big Issue vendor Matthew - "honest, powerful and important".
Now we need action. bit.ly/3YsQeuV
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Alma's Not Normal star Sophie Willan: 'Care experienced people have superpowers – we're brilliant!'
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Last week Danny Dyer sold @BigIssue on Charing Cross Road with our vendor André Rostant. He was very good at it. Then we did an interview. It's on sale from today...
Here's a little taste of my Danny Dyer interview. He was on good form. bigissue.com/news/politics/d…
It was six years since the last time I'd interview Danny Dyer. Between us we had new haircuts, cardigans, hats, @BigIssue tabards & children / grandchildren…
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Our Letter To My Younger Self special edition magbook is on sale TODAY. Get it in all good retailers. Incredible collection. @BigIssue.
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His Three Daughters, Carrie Coon’s new film, is a beautiful, singular depiction of grief and the preparation for grief in all its complexity and intensity. 🎬
@carriecoon speaks to @adey70 about Chris Eccleston, climate change, and female-led films. 👇
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📽️Final @BigIssue share had to be this one by @adey70
If we are really serious about prisons as places of punishment & rehabilitation
then prison funding & reform is long overdue on both sides of the pond
Sing Sing - Clarence Maclin
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"Britain’s search for its new authentic self is causing a fuckload of problems."
I spoke to #Sherwood supremo @mrJamesGraham for the latest edition of @BigIssue. Please buy a copy from your local vendor (it has Sir Ian McKellen on the front!) if you can…
