George Colwey

Local Elections 2024

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Emma Edwards on making local politics less toxic, and whether the Greens are ready for power

Growing support for the Green Party could well see them running the council beyond May's local elections, but are they ready to make the tricky transition from the main local opposition to being in charge?

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Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Podcasts

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Tory leader Mark Weston on how the council has waged ‘war on motorists’ and wasted millions

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Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Local Elections 2024

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Jos Clark on ‘bloody rude’ Marvin, looming Labour thrashing and Lib Dem comeback

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Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Local Elections 2024

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Labour’s Tom Renhard on building new homes, his fast rise to party leader and why the Greens aren’t ready for power

Labour will be trying to hold onto power after eight years of running the city. Local leader Tom Renhard says the Greens, Labour's main competition, won't be able to step up and make big decisions.

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Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Podcasts

Listen: The Debrief – why does transparency matter, and is the council getting any better at it?

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George Colwey, Alex Turner and Priyanka Raval

Podcasts

Listen: The Debrief – Bristol is ditching its mayor, but what can it learn from Sheffield?

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Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

Podcasts

From the archive: Cable Longreads – Could co-design help transform Bristol’s housing estates?

The condition and availability of social housing, and how public bodies communicate with people, are important issues. How can co-design help?

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Sean Morrison, Ella Jessel and George Colwey

Podcasts

Illustration depicting NHS staff whistleblowing on racism

Listen: The Debrief, digging deeper into revelations of institutional racism at a local NHS trust

Priyanka Raval discusses the inside story of her recent investigation into racism in health services, and what it says about the state of the NHS, with Cable colleague Matty Edwards.

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Priyanka Raval, Matty Edwards and George Colwey

Podcasts

Listen: The Debrief – how and why we’re joining a citywide campaign to tackle knife crime

Cable journalists Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval sit down to discuss why we’re joining the Together for Change campaign against knife crime.

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Priyanka Raval, Sean Morrison and George Colwey

Podcasts

Seven people stood outside a building. Two are holding Palestine flags.

Listen: The Debrief, as seven Palestine Action activists are found guilty of criminal damage to Bristol’s ‘murder factory’

Cable journalists discuss covering the recent 'Elbit seven' trial, which brought into sharp focus a Bristol-based arms manufacturer’s role in supplying Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Sean Morrison, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

Area in Focus

Listen: Kingswood locals care about everything but a ‘meaningless’ by-election

In this episode of our Area in Focus series, we explore how the border town’s high street is struggling and, thanks to boundary changes, it’s facing a political identity crisis

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Mary Holditch, George Colwey and Sean Morrison

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Salma Najjar on experiencing the Gaza war as a Palestinian in the UK

Salma, a lawyer who spent her childhood in Gaza, shares the 'dystopian' experience of life under occupation and knowing your family are in a war zone, as well as discussing happier memories and pro-Palestinian activism in the UK.

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Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Priyanka Raval
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