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We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 4, Ain’t No One’s Friend

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 3, Doli Capax (Capable of ‘Evil’)

At 10 years old, England and Wales has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world. In the third episode of this investigative series, we challenge the ideology of punishment over prevention.

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 2, Can’t Meet His Needs

The role of school exclusions in serious youth violence, and what a safeguarding review tells us about the issue

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 1, Hurt people, hurt people

The perpetrators of serious youth violence are often victims themselves, of failing systems of support that if they worked properly could have prevented needless loss of life. How can we stop it, if we don’t address its root causes?

Underpaid, over-policed and under threat: Bristol’s delivery drivers at the sharp end of government’s immigration crackdown

As a government crackdown on 'illegal working' in the gig economy intensifies, The Cable investigate how it’s affecting riders and what it takes to resist immigration raids

Bristol council paying huge sums of money to rent homes from banned landlord

Back in 2022, Bristol City Council obtained a five-year court order barring landlord Naomi Knapp from renting out her homes. Now, it’s spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money to use her properties as emergency accommodation.

Revealed: how two Bristol men lifted the lid on their union’s failures to tackle racism

A Unison inquiry has found ‘compelling evidence’ Black members facing race discrimination have been ‘inadequately’ represented by the union and its solicitors. Two former Bath Spa University staff, who took their own claims to a tribunal, say their case shows how the system has let people down.

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