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Dividends, Debt… Direct Action
Edition 45

It’s been nearly 40 years since Wessex Water was privatised. Since then the company has been loaded with debt and dumped sewage into our waterways while paying out huge dividends. What will it take to change course?

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Latest stories

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
Sean Morrison

Edition 45

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War, weather and oil: greengrocers navigating an economy on the brink

With global conflicts, fuel price hikes and extreme weather events pushing up the price of fruit and veg, the Cable talks to Bristol shopkeepers about how they’re keeping their businesses alive 

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Features

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Bristol’s children in care face growing shortage of foster homes

As the number of children needing care rises, a shortage of foster homes is pushing the council towards expensive residential placements, long-distance moves and unregistered accommodation

Anna Zuurmond

Edition 45

A group of five people working together in a field during a harvest. It's a sunny day and there is a row of trees behind them

‘People don’t get a say in the food system’: How Generation Soil is transforming Bristol’s food waste

In a corner of Leigh Woods, an eco-project is building a circular food system and connecting Bristolians to the land

Sofia Lambis
Sofia Lambis

Edition 44

Bristol’s Sikh community: A family history

With the arrival in 1961 of Bristol’s first copy of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy text, we trace the history of the city’s Sikh community and the family it began with

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Hope Is Around The Corner

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The bravest conversations are with those we love

After coming across a far-right YouTuber trying to provoke people for content, Nikesh asks: is it better to engage or ignore? And how do we have hard conversations with those closest to us?

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla
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