Lorna Stephenson, Author at The Bristol Cable

Lorna Stephenson

“Beautiful, ordinary people”: Capturing Brexit on film

Ahead of Bristol Radical Film Festival, the Cable spoke to director Timothy George Kelly about his ‘state of the nation’ documentary, Brexitannia.

Lorna Stephenson

Bristol and Beyond

A never-ending journey

What can history teach us about how we got here and where we go next? The Journey to Justice project aims to find out by...

Koel Mukherjee and Lorna Stephenson

Reports

Bristol University: £3m in six years from Atomic Weapons Establishment

University’s ‘strategic alliance’ with AWE, which maintains and develops the UK’s nuclear weapons, continues.

Lorna Stephenson

City

Drug deaths in Bristol sharply increase

What explains the rising rates of drug misuse fatalities, and how can the risks be reduced for Bristol’s population of drug users?

Lucas Batt and Lorna Stephenson

Investigations

Factory farms: Six-fold increase in Gloucestershire and Somerset permits since 2010

Intensive farming has rapidly expanded across the UK in the last decade. The Cable takes a look at the south-west picture.

Lorna Stephenson

Reports

Campaign against Fishponds McDonald’s explores judicial review options

Community campaign considering further legal action against multinational.

Lorna Stephenson

Voices

Voices: Don’t let the arms industry sponsor Bristol Pride

Lorna Stephenson argues that companies such as Babcock should not be allowed to ‘pink-wash’ their dealings with repressive regimes by sponsoring Pride events.

Lorna Stephenson

Bristol and Beyond

Chronic fatigue syndrome, Bristol University, and controversial science

Certain treatments of chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME, have pitted patients against researchers, and scientists against scientists – amid furious clashes on the validity of landmark studies into the condition.

Lorna Stephenson

City