Edition 9

The 9th edition of the cable is out

The NHS is on its knees

Our health service is in crisis, but what’s causing it? With such a colossal organisation there is no single answer, just death by a thousand cuts...

Sid Ryan

Edition 9

The infamous Berkeley affair

Peasants poached for survival, but landowners and the law brought them more misery.

Steve Mills

Edition 9

Bringing braille back from the brink

Braille literacy has been in dramatic decline. Yet in Bristol, users and innovators are joining forces to create technology to save it.

Ann Burke

Bristol Port sell off

Exclusive: Fracking protections at port not as claimed by former mayor and council

Investigation raises questions over safeguards against future oil and gas exploration.

Adam Cantwell-Corn, Alec Saelens and Sid Ryan

Edition 9

This is about more than wolf-whistling

Attempts to get misogyny classed as a hate crime, as Nottinghamshire Police have done, are being twisted in the mainstream media. Ellie Vowles explains why it’s so important.

Ellie Vowles

Ideas and Action

Black Lives Matter is an emergent force in the UK

The movement from the US is challenging today’s racism is all its forms, and can be just as relevant on this side of the Atlantic

Camille Barton

City

Revealed: Bristol’s police and mass mobile phone surveillance

Evidence points to Avon and Somerset Constabulary and five other forces having bought devices that can spy on thousands of phones at a time...

Alon Aviram

Cable Community News

In the interests of transparency: a window into the Cable

What is the ‘public interest’? If we were to judge it by the metrics of YouTube views or Facebook page likes, Psy’s Gangnam Style and Shakira would tick the box. Should the Cable publish predictable music videos or vacuous clickbait columns? The Cable media coordinators don't think so.

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Edition 9

The NHS is on its knees

The infamous Berkeley affair

Bringing braille back from the brink

Exclusive: Fracking protections at port not as claimed by former mayor and council

This is about more than wolf-whistling

Black Lives Matter is an emergent force in the UK

Revealed: Bristol’s police and mass mobile phone surveillance

In the interests of transparency: a window into the Cable

Edition 9

The NHS is on its knees

The infamous Berkeley affair

Bringing braille back from the brink

Exclusive: Fracking protections at port not as claimed by former mayor and council

This is about more than wolf-whistling

Black Lives Matter is an emergent force in the UK

Revealed: Bristol’s police and mass mobile phone surveillance

In the interests of transparency: a window into the Cable

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