Edition 14
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Opinion: Surveillance Britain, nothing to fear? Think again
We need to act fast to defend our civil liberties or, like the frog in the pot, we could too late find ourselves in a very different climate.
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People's History City Features Banner Home Page Visuals
Women who built Bristol: ‘We were challenging all the time’
A look at some of the great women who helped shape this city.
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Banner Home Page Photography Visuals
Photo essay: Different sides of Southmead
A few photos show the vibrancy of the often-maligned neighbourhood of Southmead.
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Ideas And Action Features Banner Home Page
Baling out the housing crisis
Could straw and timber houses on street corners be the future of urban development?
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Banner Home Page Features Ideas And Action
Being black at Bristol’s universities
Bristol is the New Black is a group of students creating media that tells their own stories as young people of colour in Bristol.
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Photography City Banner Home Page
Bristol’s vibrant urban farming scene
Urban goats, mushrooms and Bristolian salad: how local city farmers are taking food production into their own hands.
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City Banner Home Page Investigations
Prisons: From ‘warehousing’ to workshops
Could education and training for prisoners help solve the crisis at HMP Bristol?
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City Banner Home Page Features
From drugs to Jiu Jitsu
With Filwood Community Centre threatened with closure, Knowle West residents reflect on the neighbourhood’s past, present and future.
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Banner Home Page Ideas And Action Interviews
Member spotlight: the Bristol activist battling Big Pharma
The Just Treatment campaign challenges the pharmaceutical companies charging the NHS rip-off prices for vital drugs.
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Coercion: the disturbing hidden crime of controlling a partner
It’s at the heart of domestic abuse, but the police are failing to implement the new law.
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Taking on diversity beyond tokens
In December, the Cable brought together members of the local community and media organisations to discuss issues of representation.
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Co-op note: investing in what?
Much has been made recently about encouraging investment in Bristol – generally, for big headline-grabbing infrastructure projects. At the Cable we’ll be investing in the city in a different way over 2018, and we’re not talking about an underground network.
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“It’s not just about venues, but the culture of this country”: Fleece owner Chris Sharp
After the #SaveThekla campaign breathed new life into the conversation around protecting Bristol’s nightlife, the Cable spoke to The Fleece’s Chris Sharp, who’s seen it all
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Offshore In Bristol Banner Home Page
Hundreds of Bristol properties snapped up by offshore firms
Local pubs, hotels, flats and cinemas are owned by companies based in tax havens.
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Banner Home Page Investigations Offshore In Bristol
Council properties flogged to secretive offshore companies
Twenty-eight properties owned by Bristol City Council are being leased to companies based in secretive tax havens, an investigation by the Cable reveals.
