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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?

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

Lawrence Hill councillor Yassin Mohamud talks to Neil about using his new role to bring people together, and his background dealing with neighbourhood issues

How the BBC failed Gaza

Far from being ‘impartial’, BBC coverage of Gaza has consistently amplified Israeli narratives and downplayed Palestinian suffering. Another kind of journalism is needed

The workers who tried to make ‘swords into ploughshares’

Andy Danford spent decades in Bristol’s aerospace and arms sectors, navigating industrial battles, political upheaval, and bold ideas for transforming weapons factories into socially useful workplaces

Damien Egan school visit: Anatomy of a faux scandal

How a sentence in a Cable article led to a media firestorm — resident political pundit Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins delves into the Damien Egan furore

In conversation with: Art Against War Club

We sit down with the new collective using art to shine a light on Bristol’s production of 'shit tons of killing equipment'

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