Ideas and Action

Ideas and Action

How helping people take drugs safely will save lives

Bristol City Council’s new Drug Strategy consultation will consider the use of safe consumption rooms. Transform Drug Policy's head of campaigns examines what this could mean for the city.

Martin Powell
Martin Powell

Coronavirus in Bristol

These furloughed pub staff are providing fresh food and hope to families in need

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Black History Month

‘You need to see yourself’: tackling the national curriculum’s overwhelming whiteness

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Ideas and Action

Not all heroes wear capes. Many wear PPE. NHS staff protest for fair pay

Nurses and junior doctors say they have been left out of public sector pay rises for too long.

Priyanka Raval
Olumide Osinoiki and Priyanka Raval

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Why women in Bristol are going on 'strike'

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Interviews

The Bristolian 17-year-old campaigning for racial justice in climate change movement

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Solutions in Bristol

The routes out of Bristol’s bus nightmare

Bristol’s buses are gridlocked and there's growing clamour for change. But where to next? We break down the options.

Adam Cantwell-Corn Hannah Vickers
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Hannah Vickers

Reports

Councillors throw out airport expansion plans, but is this the end of the road?

North Somerset joins the ranks of Southampton and Stansted, whose local councillors also voted to reject airport expansion plans.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Ideas and Action

Defiant, weary, resigned - meet the locals living under the flight path

With the decision to expand Bristol Airport being announced later tonight, we ask the people most directly affected about how they feel ahead of the verdict.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Reports

A morning with activists taking direct action against immigration enforcement

The group said the action was in response to the "institutional racism of the government's hostile environment policy".

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Ideas and Action

Breaking the chain of alcoholism

Josh couldn’t get out of a vicious circle of addiction and destruction until he found an organisation that tackles the long-term effects of having alcoholic parents.

Melissa Chemam

Reports

Getting arrested in the name of the planet

We talk to some of the ‘Bathtub 16’ about why they spent eight hours in a bath on Cabot Circus this summer.

Sidney Hayns-Worthington

Ideas and Action

The initiative shaking up sex-ed in Bristol

Sex education in schools is limited in its breadth and awkward in its delivery. Could a circus TROUPE with a 12 ft silken labia be the answer?

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval and Andreas Doherty-Nicolaou

Edition 20

Time to play as Bristol launches plan

Work with under-11s was cut when the council cut its youth services budget by 30% last year, but Bristol’s organisations have come together to find...

Joe Skirkowski

Film

Watch: Deliveroo Orders Rejected - a short documentary

The gig economy is getting bigger. But some workers are getting organised. In 2018, Bristol workers joined in.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn, Melanie Vaxevanakis and The treatmentworx

Ideas and Action

Ken Macharia not detained after asylum refusal

60 supporters accompanied him to his monthly check-in at Bridgewater police station.

Samar Khan

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Homelessness: Nothing to do, nowhere to go?

Paul Blake is campaigning for a homeless day centre.

Chelsey Flood

Ideas and Action

Inside a Bristol warehouse is a vast history of women’s fight for rights

The Cable explores the present day relevance of the Feminist Archive South.

Lorna Stephenson

Voices

Has identity politics gone too far? My take

There is no such thing as a politics unaffected by identity. So what's the fuss?

Elias Williams

Edition 18

A community fights for asylum justice

Bristol Bison rugby player Ken Macharia speaks about his experience of detention, as the system comes under the spotlight.

Lorna Stephenson

Opinion

Opinion: Wood burning stoves are deadly, not trendy

Stuart Phelps argues that “poverty is the only excuse for burning wood in the city".

Stuart Phelps

Voices

A passionate appeal to save one of the few working class pubs in Easton

Recently given a new lease of life under new management, this old school boozer could be the latest victim of gentrification.

Ben Bird

Bristol and Beyond

Bristol Travellers fill food banks for Christmas

The #FoodbankNomination started in Ireland but has since spread all over the world, including Bristol. We spoke to the Bristol Gypsies and Travellers who've taken part.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Ideas and Action

Fat Paul and the Exchange’s rebirth as Bristol's first community owned venue

For the past decade, he has been one of the key “behind-the-scene” players in Bristol’s music scene, and now building a new era at The Exchange.

Melissa Chemam