Sean Morrison

We've Got Your Boy

Series Overview

A new investigative podcast series on school exclusions, child imprisonment, and the roots of serious youth violence. Starting here, on the outskirts of Bristol, Vinney Green secure children's home.

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Sean Morrison

Edition 41

Underpaid, over-policed and under threat: Bristol’s delivery drivers at the sharp end of government’s immigration crackdown

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Adam Quarshie and Sean Morrison

Edition 41

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A year ago, Bristol showed up to resist racist, anti-migrant hatred. But the fight’s not over

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Adam Quarshie and Sean Morrison

Reports

East Bristol’s ‘liveable neighbourhood’: Is this really progress?

The Cable has been collecting data since November on how residents of east Bristol feel about the scheme and how it has impacted them so far. Hundreds of people responded to our call out, and their message is clear…

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Sean Morrison, Nicole Skidmore, Matt Lay and Laurence Ware

Reports

Marvin Rees receives payment from energy giant he awarded massive contract to

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Sean Morrison
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The Debrief

Listen: The Debrief – Filton 18, the Palestine Action activists hit by anti-terror laws amid the British state’s crackdown on dissent

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Adam Quarshie and Sean Morrison

Cable Community News

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Editorial: Why the Cable will be shining a light on child imprisonment

The Cable's investigations lead introduces our new long-term reporting strategy that puts impact at its heart – starting with a deep-dive on child prisons and exclusion from society.

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Sean Morrison

The Big Story

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Filton 18: ‘The more you oppress people, the more they will rise’

The British state is treating Palestine Action activists who targeted an Elbit Systems Israeli arms facility on the outskirts of Bristol like terrorists – subjecting them to repressive sanctions in jail as they await trial.

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Sean Morrison

together for change

No silver bullet: why we should stop criminalising young people and start investing in them

Anti-knife violence campaigners and youth workers speak out on school exclusions, the reasons children are carrying knives, and why the police must stop ‘victim-blaming’ kids.

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Sean Morrison

Reports

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‘This does not feel like justice’: two young men jailed and one on trial for resisting far-right extremists

Months on from the far-right violence that gripped Bristol in August, police and prosecutors are treating anti-fascist counter-demonstrators the same as people who brought racist disorder to Bristol’s streets.

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Sean Morrison and Muznah Sh Farah

The Debrief

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Listen: The Debrief – what a leaked police report revealed about racial inequalities in stop-and-search

A report leaked to the Cable showed the shocking fact that Black people are 25 times likelier to be strip-searched than white peers. Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval ask what the findings say about police institutional racism.

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Sean Morrison, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

No to Section 60

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Black children and adults strip searched 25 times more often than white peers in Avon and Somerset, leaked report reveals

EXCLUSIVE: The sensitive ‘deep-dive’ review also reveals the police officers who prolifically and disproportionately stop and search Black people in Bristol.

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Sean Morrison
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