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  • The Big Issue

    After 30 years, The Big issue’s job has only just begun

    Jan 25, 2021 3 minutes
    Photo Credit: David Rose/The Independent/Shutterstock

    It is about this time 30 years ago that I was receiving annoying messages from Gordon Roddick of The Body Shop to meet and talk about a possible street paper. Gordon the year before had bought a copy of a street paper call Street News in New York and was impressed with the homeless vendor’s story. About selling the paper to make money so that he didn’t get into trouble.

    I was irritated because I much preferred the said

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