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, with Habib Kadiri on pernicious police stop-and-search powers

Habib Kadiri, from charity StopWatch, explains why stop-and-search matters, what your rights are and how marginalised communities can push back.

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Sean Morrison, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and George Colwey

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Sound against the system – punk, rave and Dave from Faithless

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George Colwey, Priyanka Raval and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

People Just Do Something

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Listen: People Just Do Something – Fadumo Farah on Barton House, ACORN and a Holiday Inn mattress blockade

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George Colwey, Priyanka Raval and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something and how to start a student encampment

People Just Do Something is a relaxing and possibly enraging podcast about people who might self-identify as activists, untangling the means of effecting change in Bristol, broken Britain and beyond.

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Priyanka Raval, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and George Colwey
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People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something with Grace Blakeley and the ‘cacophony of woke’

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George Colwey, Priyanka Raval and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
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Area in Focus

How St Paul’s residents fought to make the Malcolm X Centre a space for the community

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Podcasts

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

On 2 May 2024, Bristol will wave goodbye to its mayor and return to a committee system. Isaac Kneebone Hopkins chats with Priyanka Raval about what we can learn from Sheffield's experience of local government reform.

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Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

Features

Bristol is about to ditch its mayor. What can it learn from Sheffield?

The clock is ticking down on Marvin Rees’ time in charge, with a new less centralised power structure based around committees replacing the mayoral model. With a similar transition having taken place in South Yorkshire, are there lessons for our city?

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Reports

Community standoff with council over eviction threat of beloved Kuumba Centre in St Paul’s

The space next to Stokes Croft has served the local community for decades but activists are now fighting to secure its long-term future.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins