Edition 23

Edition 23

Bristol filmmaker Michael Jenkins is ‘wreaking the best kind of havoc on the city’

A gentle giant of our city, filmmaker Michael Jenkins is quietly yet firmly shaking up the creative industries and giving Bristol’s Black community a stake in their own stories.

Euella Jackson
Euella Jackson

Solutions in Bristol

Big ideas of what a good ‘new normal’ could look like after coronavirus

Adam Cantwell-Corn Fatima Hudoon
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Fatima Hudoon

Features

Lockdown gave a safety net for Bristol’s hidden homeless… But many remain on the street this time round

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Edition 23

How Bristol 24/7 publicised Big Tobacco’s push for respectability, before accepting its money

Local magazine and news website’s £25,000 grant from Philip Morris followed a string of articles referencing its new heated tobacco products.

Alon Aviram The Bristol Cable
Alon Aviram and The Bristol Cable

Edition 23

The corporate giants dominating our care system

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Opinion

Why Bristol sport needs to do its bit in tackling the climate crisis

David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt

Features

5 ways robots are changing our healthcare

With a leading robotics research hub in the city, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, partnering with local hospitals, Bristol is at the cutting-edge of robotics in healthcare.

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Black History Month

Watch: Vulnerability, escapism and creativity, my experiences of lockdown as a young Bristolian

Lockdown left young people in the city feeling stranded, dislocated from their usual connections. Here, a young aspiring writer reflects on school, writing and the new sense of self-confidence that grew over those months

Shaheim Minzie Priyanka Raval
Shaheim Minzie, Olumide Osinoiki, Manoel Bolutife Akure and Priyanka Raval

People's History

The problematic past of the Merchant Venturers

Mark Steeds from the Bristol Radical History Group, co-author of From Wulfstan to Colston, tells the story of the origins, history and development of the Society of Merchant Venturers

Priyanka Raval
Mark Steeds and Priyanka Raval

Black History Month

Watch: “Britons never, never have been slaves?”

A backtracked BBC decision earlier this year to not sing the words to Rule Britannia at the Proms kicked off the most recent debate about the song and Britain’s past and present.

Priyanka Raval
Edson Burton, Priyanka Raval and Paula Romero

Fight For Fair Air

Air pollution close to pre-lockdown levels as battle for solutions hots up

The mayor and council have changed their mind, and want to reduce air pollution without charging drivers, but critics are calling time on yet more delays.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Investigations

Police intelligence links disappearance of Linda Millard to gangland murders

It is of one of Avon and Somerset’s longest unsolved missing persons cases. But a police intelligence report links the mother’s disappearance to a notorious gangland slaying.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram and Michael Gillard
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