Features

An end to blind eyes around human trafficking?

In a potentially groundbreaking case, Bristol council has taken responsibility for the welfare of a trafficked woman. Will it signal a change?

Bea Oliver

Edition 6

Talking on the clock: Bristol’s ‘new factories’

Despite perks, testimonies of call centre workers show oldfashioned working methods continue today.

F. H. Pitts

Edition 6

Bristol: a city of shirkers, or over-workers?

How do you claw back a little time from the grind?

Joanna Clarke

Edition 6

‘It’s nasty and it’s bullying’: sexism and the council

As with most local authorities, Bristol's councillors are mostly male – and some bad attitudes have been surfacing of late. What can be done to level the gender playing field?

Lorna Stephenson

City

A place to shoot up

How the UK’s drug policy is lagging behind other countries’ “Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change,” says Irish minister

Ian Sherwood

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Ambition and challenges of Council-owned energy company

Can Bristol’s new publicly-owned energy provider make its mark in such a tough sector?

Molly Asher

City

Residents fight smokescreen power plants

Bristol residents are fighting proposals to build new power stations in urban areas. Why are these new dirty power stations planned in the Green Capital, and at a time of climate crisis? And why are the plans being kept so quiet?

Lorna Stephenson

Edition 5

Holding Green Capital accountants to account

In August 2014, it was announced that KPMG would be one of Bristol Green Capital's (BGC) private sponsors, alongside First Group. Details of what, exactly, this sponsorship entails are yet to be made public.

Joanne Ball

City