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Children of the stones: Druidry in Bristol

Edition 44 1st July, 2026

With alternative spiritualities on the rise, reporter Isaac joins a dawn ceremony featuring Druids, ritual magic and one very small lighter

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

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Profiling Power

Surveillance isn’t safeguarding: Think Family and the fight for transparency

Bristol City Council says its mass data gathering tool is designed to protect, not profile the 55,000 families it monitors. But is it pushing school children into the criminal justice system?

Sean Morrison

Edition 44

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Charting a new course: How Bristol’s Muslims are mapping their own futures

In Bristol, Muslim-led organisations are building their own infrastructures for young people, centred around belonging, ambition and success

Muznah Sh Farah

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from grassroots football to the World Cup, with Liam Smith

Neil is joined by Liam Smith of Bristol Central youth football club to talk expressing yourself through sport, the tough route to making it, diversity in football – and England's World Cup chances

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Hope Is Around The Corner

Being vulnerable is a strength

On a cab ride home, Nikesh learns of a secret dessert club for taxi drivers, a space where men can bond, support each other, laugh, and eat ice cream

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Talk Club’s Gavin Thorpe – moving the dial on men’s mental health

Neil is joined by Talk Club co-founder Gavin Thorpe for an in-depth chat on men's mental health, generational attitudes and achieving change.

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‘A turning point in British history’: First Filton 25 defendants sentenced as terrorists

The Cable attended the sentencing of four Palestine Action activists as judge applies a terrorism-related enhancement to criminal damage for the first time in the UK

Tom Anderson

The Cornerman

In this four-part true crime investigation, the Cable unmasks one of Britain’s most elusive crime bosses - the Cornerman, so-called for taking a corner out of every crooked deal that came his way and hurting those who don’t pay up.

In Disrepair: Bristol’s broken renting system

This series will tell the stories of renters in Bristol, dig into how the pandemic has affected the crisis, and, crucially, what can be done about it. We will join the dots between local issues and the wider housing crisis in the UK, holding the council and central government to account on pledges for action.

The Ice Cream Slavery Case

A five year investigation Thousands of Bristolians and tourists have bought ice creams from Lopresti ice cream vans at iconic city landmarks over the decades.

Children of the stones: Druidry in Bristol

Latest stories

Surveillance isn’t safeguarding: Think Family and the fight for transparency

Charting a new course: How Bristol’s Muslims are mapping their own futures

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from grassroots football to the World Cup, with Liam Smith

Being vulnerable is a strength

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Talk Club’s Gavin Thorpe – moving the dial on men’s mental health

‘A turning point in British history’: First Filton 25 defendants sentenced as terrorists

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Edition 43

In this edition, the Palestinian diaspora in Bristol talk about allyship, isolation and enduring grief. We hold local power structures to account for their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and spotlight the resistance.

How local pension funds invest millions in defence, and why divestment isn’t simple

Sukkot: In solidarity

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Profiling Power

This investigation was reported by the Cable in partnership with Liberty Investigates, Lighthouse Reports and WIRED magazine.

Surveillance isn’t safeguarding: Think Family and the fight for transparency

Bristol data tools risked wrongly flagging victims and suspects, Children’s Commissioner ‘deeply concerned’

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We've Got Your Boy

A new investigative podcast series on school exclusions, child imprisonment, and the roots of serious youth violence.

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 5, The Streets Don’t Love You

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 4, Ain’t No One’s Friend

The Big Story

Uncovering injustice and wrongdoing

‘We wanted allies, not saviours’: Bristol’s Palestinian diaspora on allyship, isolation and enduring grief

Hurt people, hurt people: The hidden lives of children behind bars

A year ago, Bristol showed up to resist racist, anti-migrant hatred. But the fight’s not over

Weekly podcasts

From audio investigations to People Just Do Something, listen to deep-dives into local issues and recordings of live events.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Ben Carpenter – amid knife crime, online harms and isolation, what should our youth services look like?

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Paul Smith on spending £20m and ensuring Hartcliffe doesn’t get betrayed again

Listen: People Just Do Something – Life of the Party on the disaster of Your Party and the rise of the Greens

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Yassin Mohamud, the city’s first Somali lord mayor on bringing people together

Our 44th print edition is out now!

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Explained: What do council funding reforms mean for Bristol?

Watch: How Section 60 contributes to rifts between police and the communities they serve

VIDEO: Chief constable challenged on ‘anti-racist policing’ progress and stop and search reform

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