John Bird
John Bird is the founder of ‘The Big Issue’. He spent periods in orphanages and on the street as a child, and in prison in adult life.
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This week's big questions: Are you worried by the rise of Ukip? What do you do when you pass someone sleeping rough?
21 December 2012 06:47 PM
This week's questions are answered by John Bird, founder of The Big Issue
WHERE I GREW UP
16 February 1997 12:02 AM
A. John Bird, founder of The Big Issue, spent his childhood in a slum near Paddington
Why we can't tell the truth about life on the streets
02 February 1997 12:02 AM
Three years ago we launched the Welsh Big Issue in Cardiff before an audience interested in seeing homeless people getting a chance to do something for themselves. The first two speakers were Welsh homeless people who had sold the magazine in London. Each told a story of how they had used the Big Issue to get themselves sorted out. How in a destitute state they had come across us and signed up to sell.
Dear Jack Straw
07 September 1995 12:02 AM
The Shadow Home Secretary wants to rid the streets of begging and squeegee teams. He should know better, says the editor-in-chief of the Big Issue
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David Cameron goes to war with press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
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