This week, John Bird, founder of the Big Issue, gives his manifesto for ending poverty; actor Mark Williams tells Will Gore about playing G K Chesterton detective Father Brown in a new BBC series; Tim Stanley predicts a hard Islamist winter; Mark Greaves meets an ex-soldier traumatised by war who is now counselling others; and Quentin de la Bédoyère publishes a letter to his cohabiting grandson. Plus, Will Heaven explains why he will be singing in the bath in 2013. You can read it all online by subscribing here (for £40 a year). Or, for a hard copy, go here (£75 for a year’s worth).