Avonmouth: have parties failed working class voters?

Alon Aviram Additional work by: Adam Cantwell-Corn Illustration: Sam Knock Is there a growing faultline between working class voters and the Labour party? From trade-unions...

In My View: Immigration

Kerry-anne Mendoza examines the reasons behind immigration policy concerns We hear a lot from politicians, in UKIP and beyond, that we need to have a...

The drugs (policies) don’t work

The war on drugs has failed, but is drugs reform really just a pipe dream? Kitty Webster investigates.

Housing problems, unviable solutions

View Infographic Developers’ strong hand helps to squeeze Bristol’s supply of affordable homes

Darren Hall: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then you win.”

Can the Greens reach out beyond their liberal middle-class heartland to secure a victory? Joe Smith spoke with Darren Hall, the Green Party candidate for...

Fringe benefits: who are the ‘other’ candidates running for Bristol this General Election?

From painting Bristol’s cranes to look like giraffes, to parties proposing radical anti-austerity policies, what makes Bristol’s smaller parties tick? Arvind Howarth finds out.

Edition 3: Co-op Note

Intro to Issue 3 – Is The Bristol Cable political? We were stood on Prince Street Bridge on a chilly February evening, handing out issue...

Councillors’ mistaken “no comment” on Carriageworks development

Bristol Councillors who will be voting on Fifth Capital’s controversial planning application have declined from publicly indicating their voting intentions, wrongly citing reasons why.

A step forward for tenants’ rights?

Following a campaign by Acorn, a community union, Bristol City Council voted unanimously to endorse an Ethical Lettings Charter. Around 100 people protested outside City...

Photos & Video: Eviction of Stapleton Allotments

The eviction of the metrobus site started today. Teams of bailiffs and private security teams arrived on the site in the early hours to begin...

Banged up in HMP Bristol

Adam Cantwell-Corn caught up with Governor of HMP Bristol, Andrea Albutt, and ex-con and prison campaigner, Ben Gunn, to find out whether one of society’s...

Whose Stokes Croft? The struggle for the city centre?

300 met to discuss and act on corporate gentrification of Stokes Croft in the face of developers plans.