Ideas and Action

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Features

Under surveillance: how a man was recalled to prison after visiting a Bristol anarchist social centre

Toby Shone’s arrest by counter-terrorism police surveilling the BASE centre in Easton shows the state’s escalating clampdown on political dissent.

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson

This Better Work

‘Precarity is the thing that joins all this work together’: Bristol’s sex workers demand labour rights

Natalie Sherriff
Natalie Sherriff

Area in Focus

Meet the estate residents picking up trowels and spades to fight harmful social housing stereotypes

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

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

Ideas and Action

Why women in Bristol are going on ‘strike’

For International Women’s Day this Sunday 8 March, feminist collectives in Bristol are putting on a “Women’s Strike”. The Cable has been following the event's organisers to learn about the personal stories and politics behind the action.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Interviews

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

The Cable catches up with Mya-Rose Craig, the 17-year-old Bristolian activist, about sharing a stage with Greta and race equality in the environmental 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
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