Priyanka Raval

Reports

Shindig Festival stands firm on Bob Vylan booking despite licencing pressure

Could antisemitism row spell the end for much-loved festival?

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

‘We wanted allies, not saviours’: Bristol’s Palestinian diaspora on allyship, isolation and enduring grief

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People Just Do Something

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

Nicholas Buret on why a plan for the planet is no substitute for actual politics.

Investigations

The rise and fall of Bristol Patriots

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

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.

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.

In conversation with Rising Arts Agency

For the past five years, Euella Jackson and Jess Bunyan have co-directed Rising Arts Agency, an organisation empowering young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds. We sit down with them to talk about leadership, innovation, and the challenges of the cultural sector

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.

Moyah: Sound of survival

MoYah — rapper, Afrofusion artist, activist — sits down with The Cable to trace his journey from Mozambique to Portugal to the UK, and how that path shaped his sound and sense of self

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…