October 31 2022

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Italian Job Lot
If you think our cabinet is bad, it could be worse. Years of collapsing governments in Italy has brought about a supergroup coalition of right-wing parties to consolidate power. The controversial trio includes 86-year-old magic-haired billionaire Sil
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The Dispatch
We’re trying to run the country here! Civil servants say government chaos means they can’t do their jobs properly The government merry-go-round is causing chaos for civil servants trying to deliver policies, the leader of the civil service union has
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FOUNDERS John Bird and Gordon Roddick GROUP CHAIR Nigel Kershaw GROUP CEO Paul Cheal MANAGING DIRECTOR Russell Blackman EDITORIAL & PRODUCTION Editor Paul McNameeArt director Mark NeilDeputy editor Steven MacKenzieDigital editor Alastair Re
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Editor’s Letter
Years ago I was a music journalist. I was on the news desk of the NME for quite some time. In those days we got a lot of unsolicited calls and tips. They were a mixed bag, but now and again proved useful. Eminem’s mum rang me one evening. That was an
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Bird’s Words
Reading: My Early Life by Winston Churchill Listening:Collection of Portuguese fado music Watching: The 39 Steps, the 1935 film with Robert Donat Doing: Building a social safety net alliance in the UK A day in the life of an observer: I was walking t
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The Traumas We Face Can’t Be Dismissed
Seeing someone murdered changes you as a person. Nothing ever feels light again. I’d seen death before. I was at my father’s side as he took his last breath, comfortable in his bed surrounded by his family, surrounded by love. It was a gentle passing
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Letters
The Big Issue, 2nd floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW letters@bigissue.com @bigissue /bigissueUK @bigissueuk @thebigissue Those who identify as journalists within the mainstream media are jubilant at yet another prime ministerial res
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We Need To Change Now For A Better Future
The UK’s state of flux and confusion has been a constant for months. In that time there have been measures that have helped the population who find themselves in a fearful financial cost-of-living crisis. As winter approaches, more will need to be do
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‘Everyone Can Make A Difference – Particularly If We Combine And Cooperate’
Critically acclaimed new film Living might initially seem a world away from cinematic classics like Trainspotting or Dead Poets Society. But if we look closer, the underlying message is the same. Even if it takes close proximity to death to ram home
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‘I Wanted It To Be A Study Of A Certain Kind Of Englishness’
Were you a reluctant screenwriter? I’m one of these awful people, the equivalent of the ones that come up to me to say, I’ve got a great idea for a novel. So I had a great idea for a film, an Ikiru remake set in post-war Britain with Bill Nighy in i
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Lorraine Kelly
At 16 I was probably spending most of my time sitting listening to David Bowie with my friend Stuart. I was quite a late developer. I wasn’t a bit sophisticated, not interested in boys or anything like that whatsoever. I’ve never been that interested
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Dust Off For War Child UK
Prints by over 150 photographers including David Sims, David Bailey, Inez & Vinoodh, Anders Edström, Casper Sejersen, Venetia Scott and more are available to purchase now, with all profits going to War Child UK. Curated by Dust Off, who use photograp
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Books
As a successful music producer (Prince, David Byrne) turned cognitive neurologist, Susan Rogers is unusually well qualified to investigate the mysterious, drug-like impact music has on the physical body and the emotional mind. But it is a bold soul w
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Photography
It was when I was eating my Weetabix. In the old days you used to get a toy in a cereal packet and for a long time in Weetabix you would get a little card with two pictures that looked the same. I thought, what’s all this about? You had to send away
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Trash Talk
Ah, the 1990s. Life was simple. No internet or mobile phones. Three prime ministers for the whole decade rather than three in three months. And Friday nights peaked with Eurotrash, watched by folk returning sozzled from the pub or by schoolkids in se
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Robin Ince Is On The Road
As if by magic, I am at the other end of the world. In London, I get into a capsule and watch Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, I briefly change capsules and watch Curb Your Enthusiasm and with little sense of movement, save for some fairground ride turbulen
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Music
Train delays, work issues – life – had made a group of now-disgruntled people late for Ludovico Einaudi’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall. During the Proms – held at the same London venue – latecomers are only permitted entry in between pieces,
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Puzzles
1. Particular about southern ocean in a pronounced way (8)6. Small diagrams of fruit (4)8. Stick with one in a suit (4)9. It is not expected that one in France comes from Ilkley! (8)10. On reflection one will get distorted views here (4,2,7)11. Nail
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My Pitch
EUZEFINA TATARU, 46 Lately things have been quite steady at the pitch where I sell. The local community know me very well and I like the fact that they want to get to know me more, they’re curious about me as a person, and they speak very kindly to

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