Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

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Edition 44

Children of the stones: Druidry in Bristol

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

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

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

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Sarah Jaffe on love in the time of fascism

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Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

Features

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

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Nicholas Beuret on disrupting the climate transition

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval
Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla with Mathilda Mallinson

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Veronica Wignall on Bristol’s billboards and reclaiming public spaces

Billboards, inequality, and the corporations selling us problems they helped create.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Ros Martin on challenging LEGO and the toppling of Colston

Art, activism, and the audacity to speak up. Ros Martin has never stopped.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something SPECIAL – Steve Jackson – Fear and loathing at the Green Party Conference

The Greens are surging. Now comes the hard part.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Pride is a protest: Black pride in Bristol

The activists who built Pride are still fighting — this time, against Pride itself.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Mike Jay and the radical history of nitrous oxide

Isaac interviews Free Radicals author Mike Jay about Bristol's Pneumatic Institute, its founder Thomas Beddoes and the radical history of nitrous oxide.

George Colwey Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
George Colwey and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something Live – comrades aren’t cringe, with leftwing US academic Jodi Dean

What's the difference between a party and a movement? Is communism really on the horizon? And how can the UK left get its act together? Professor Jodi Dean has some – but not all – of the answers Isaac and Priyanka crave…

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George Colwey, Priyanka Raval and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
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