Opinion

Fight For Fair Air

Cutting Bristol’s air pollution could help citizens’ mental as well as physical health

Evidence increasingly suggests that traffic pollutants can adversely affect the brain, impact cognitive function, and increase the risk of mental health problems. Bristol’s Clean Air Zone cannot come too soon.

Joanne Newbury
Joanne Newbury

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

'Disruptive protests don't win friends. But they work'

Oscar Berglund
Oscar Berglund

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

‘Bristol must take urgent action on alarming lack of diversity in climate change decision-making'

Dr Alix Dietzel
Dr Alix Dietzel

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

'Don’t let them tell you protecting urban trees isn’t essential for a sustainable and liveable Bristol'

It has been suggested that people trying to save urban trees are misguided. But with the effects of climate change being so much more intense in city centres, we need all the trees we can get.

John Tarlton
John Tarlton

Opinion

‘Bristol Energy has gone, will it pull the mayoral system down with it?’

Clive Stevens
Clive Stevens

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

‘My pension is being invested in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. This can’t continue.'

Jo Flanagan
Jo Flanagan

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

‘Saving every tree is not the answer’

In recent years it seems there hasn’t been a single tree-felling in the city that hasn’t been met with some kind of outcry, regardless of how clearly the benefits outweigh the cost. We must confront this shortsightedness.

Joe Dunckley
Joe Dunckley

Opinion

'This is how we can scrap crime without doing the time’

Delroy Hibbert, who is currently helping Bristol young people tell their stories, explains why the revolving door of criminality and incarceration needs to be broken with therapy and investment.

Delroy Hibbert
Delroy Hibbert

Solutions in Bristol

‘Tents and shipping containers won’t solve our homelessness crisis. Here’s what will’

Former council lead for housing, Paul Smith shares his take on what Bristol needs to do about homelessness.

Paul Smith
Paul Smith

Coronavirus in Bristol

‘The end of the mask mandate threatens Bristol’s young and vulnerable’

Masks coming off from ‘freedom day’ is going to restrict people’s movement around the city on Bristol’s buses.

Chloë Maughan
Chloë Maughan

Opinion

How a police and council database is predicting if your child is at risk of harm

Approximately 90 children may have been wrongly flagged as being at risk of sexual harm by a database used by the council and police, according to Jake Hurfurt, the Head of Research and Investigations at Big Brother Watch.

Jake Hurfurt

Opinion

'Why Bristol needs openness and transparency on house building'

Bristol desperately needs more affordable housing, but this is difficult to deliver in a planning system that stinks, writes former Green councillor Clive Stevens.

Clive Stevens
Clive Stevens
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