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The Big Issue NOVEMBER 30–DECEMBER 6, 2015 NO.1182 EVERY MONDAY A HAND UP NOT A HANDOUT essage from tmas m hris A C TCAT BOB E part of the story RE 're all ST You CONTENTS EST. 1991 Hello, my name is Chris. NOV 30–DEC 6 2015 Selling the magazine has gone really NO. 1182 well. It’s given me confidence because REGULARS of the respect you get. And it’s given CORRESPONDENCE 4 me focus and helped me keep a EDITOR & PAUSE 6 handle on budgeting.gg e support HIDDEN BRITAIN & MY PECCADILLO 9 my customers gave me when I was Rebecca Front harmonises going through a tough tiime has been LETTER TO MY unbelievable. You’ve no idea what a YOUNGER SELF 10 Anastacia difference it makes to have people JOHN BIRD 13 who careandtakean interest... COMMENT 15 Read more on page 54. Jessica Shankleman STREET ART 16 What the critics think VENDOR LOVE 21 STREET CAT BOB 24 HOMELESSNESS ON FILM 28 Starring Richard Gere, Paul Bettanyy and Peter Mullan THE BIG COMP WIN! ZURU GOODIES 34 OUR MANIFESTO OWE BELIEVE OWE BELIEVE OWE BELIEVE in a hand up, in trade, not aid... in the right to citizenship... not a handout... Which is why we ask that Which is why The Big Issue Which is why our sellers you ALWAYS take your Foundation, our charitable BUY every copy of the copy of the magazine – it’s arm, helps sellers tackle their magazine from us for £1.25 a bloody good read and our social and financial exclusion. and sell it on to you for sellers are working and need £2.50 (except at Christmas your custom. OWE BELIEVE when it’s £1.50 and £3). in prevention... THE ENLIGHTENMENT In this way we have helped OWE BELIEVE Which is why Big Issue BOOKS 38 hundreds of thousands of poverty is indiscriminate... Invest ofers backing and FILM 41 people to take control of Which is why we provide investments between FOCUS & GEEK 43 their lives since 1991, and in ANYONE whose life is £50,000–£1.75m to social LUCY SWEET, the process created a global blighted by poverty with enterprises, charities and blueprint for social change. the opportunity to earn a businesses which deliver EVENTS & MUSIC 44 LEGITIMATE income. social value to communities. SPOT THE BALL 52 Cover illustration: Charis Tsevis / Photo: David Tett / Photo: David Charis Tsevis illustration: Cover THE BIG ISSUE / p3 / November 30–December 6 2015 CORRESPONDENCE Laid bare Write to: The Big Issue, Second Floor, 43 Bath St Glasgow, G2 1HW Load of hot air It seems Dr Anderson, in her It is a pity that you felt the Email: [email protected] Comment: bigissue.com cloistered world [November need for journalistic ‘balance’ 16-22], is missing one fact about @bigissue [Let it Snow, November 16-22] our world when bemoaning the facebook.com/bigissueUKf @bigissueuk by giving almost equal coverage poor prices commanded by totheviewsofaclimatesceptic ‘sexualised pictures of naked… alongside those views that men’, to paraphrase! representbyfarthemajority We live in a capitalist of the scientific community. society, governed by supply Indoingsoyouimplythatthe and demand. Just like female debate is more closely balanced footballers who complain they than is, in fact, the case. aren’t paid as much as men, to GWild,email whom I say when you can fill COMMENT OF THE WEEK stadia with tens of thousands, Power hungry and subsequent TV audiences Aglowingtribute Brendan O’Neill’s timely are in the millions, they’ll get article about meat eaters paid as much. Then when LarsMytting’s article onchopping wood [November 2-8] was spot on. artists’ work showing male [November 16-22] reminded me of the 1980s when, ThoughIdon’teatredmeat nudes is in equal demand to asafamily,wetookadvantageofalocaltreeafected myself, the public health advice the female equivalent, it will by Dutch elm disease. My husband chopped and [about eating meat] and that of command higher prices. dismembered the fallen tree while my two boys, just other bodies who are trying to On her other point, some of fiveandsixyearsoldatthetime,helpedtopileitonto dictate our lifestyles can Modigliani’s work is – subject a trailer to transport it approx one kilometre home. equally be applied to smoking matter aside – stunningly Of course, this took many trailer trips over many days and the ridiculous anti-sugar beautiful. I believe some of –itwasanancient,largetree!Wehadalwaysenjoyed campaign. These groups wield Freud’s art divides opinion and openfiresinourchildhoodhomesandhadbuiltona apoweroutofallproportion is not to everyone’s taste. chimneytoourhome–thatfirewoodlastedusmany, to their public support, and The Big Issue is sold on a many years after drying out, a welcome glow that politiciansofallpartiesseem capitalist model too, where somehow makes you feel warmer than any other form to be afraid to stand up to them the demand has been created ofheat.Wedidmixtheburningoftheelmwithother and tell them bluntly that they to fulfil a need. The people woods; The Firewood Poem (first published in haven’t been elected by anyone selling it would have no The Times, 1930) details the diferent burning qualities so should mind their own market and less hope in life ofourvariousBritishtreesandhasalwaysbeenagood business. Giving in to their without that process. pointofreferenceforme.Now,30yearson,Ihavea demands only encourages David Taylor, Lincolnshire woodburner so still enjoy the natural warmth that zealots even more. mother earth can provide. Steve Lustig, London I just want to say, what a Rosie Scott, Essex fantastic article by Victoria @thewidowstanton Anderson in this week’s Light-entgreatStanleyBaxter issue, about equal pay and the chatsaboutpantointhisweek’s art world. She hit the nail on @bigissue – Love him! the head and made her point It is always nice to have a chat with impact. with Kelvin, our Berkhamsted Louise, Brighton Big Issue vendor. FEEDBACK Jo Stevens, Facebook LOOP Sweet little one My two-year-old daughter and S Mortimer wrote in to tell us I went to the local Sainsbury’s [November 16-22] her vendor Extra and the lovely guy selling had given her a silk poppy on The Big Issue with his dog was a wire stalk because hers fell there. He spoke to my daughter o. This reader chimes in. and they both chatted about his dog. Then my daughter and I TACHE-TASTIC I read with interest the letter went in Sainsbury’s to get what titled ‘Lest we forget’ and was we needed and she picks up her deeply moved by the kind act of usual bag of cookies. On the Hi, my name is Bernie Anna [the vendor]. I know all too way out she gives them to the Buxton. I sell The Big well the problems of the plastic guy and said they were for him Issue in Plymouth and stalk poppy; being a chaufeur, and his dog. #heartofgold am doing Movember to the seat belt would rip of my Lindsay Rochester, Facebook raise awareness of prostate poppy. The solution was to buy cancer. Here is a picture a poppy pin badge, which I now @LeOptimist of me on my pitch. wear all the year around on my Had the most interesting jacket lapels. I noticed a lot of conversation with a #BigIssue the darts players have adopted vendor about the Northern the same solution. They cost Lights. I hope he does see them about £5 but are well worth it. some day. #aHandUp #BigLove David King, Camberley THE BIG ISSUE / p4 / November 30–December 6 2015 Provided by Sanofi Pasteur MSD JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T SEE IT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S NOT DANGEROUS PNEUMOCOCCALDISEASEcanbelife-threateningforsomepeople, sovaccinationagainstitisrecommendedandfreeforat-riskadults and children aged over 2 months with the following conditions: • diabetes (controlledbymedication) • cochlear implants •aspleniaordysfunction •chronickidneydisease of the spleen •cerebrospinalfluidleaks •chronicrespiratorydisease •chronicliverdisease • immunosuppression •occupationalexposuretometalfumes • chronic heart disease (taking into account exposure control measures in place) Vaccination is also recommended for anyone aged 65 or over, and as part of the childhood immunisation programme. If you’re at risk, help protect yourself by getting vaccinated. Reporting of side effects. If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in the package leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via the Yellow Card Scheme at: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard. By reporting side effects you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine. UK18355 07/15 THE EDITOR OFF THE GRID... Let’s lend Osborne a hand to get his house in order ’mgoingtohelpGeorgeOsborne. the solution; there are many, many He may say he doesn’t need it. He’s buildings that could be repaired and THE BIG ISSUE: Idoing fine himself. And, in truth, reused.Also,therearemany,many BIGGER THAN 1D! who am I to argue? That soft shoe people and groups out there doing this Last week The Big Issue owned the news. shule he worked to dance away from work. Frequently they need only We were trending higher than One Direction taxcreditcutswasaStrictly special. small grants, some help around arcane on Twitter – and it was thanks to cofee, And the way he suddenly became local planning laws and connections Illustration: Lauren Crow love and art. the austerity chancellor without to similar groups trying similar We revealed in last week’s magazine our austerity–well,thatwasquiteaplay. things. There is knowledge and skills partnership with cofee start-up Change Please. Still, I’m going to help him. to be shared. It sees some of our vendors moving on from The house-building plan in Also there is another side. The selling the magazine to training as baristas so Osborne’s spending review is a good people working on the buildings are they can sell cofees at the Change Please one.
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