Opinion
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The contagion of misinformation and a Bristol Facebook page linking 5G and coronavirus
There’s another contagion doing the rounds, it’s not coronavirus, but disinformation. And one Bristol Facebook page with thousands of likes is spreading claims that 5G is connected to the pandemic.
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‘Workers are turning to each other. We can beat coronavirus, weak rights and unscrupulous bosses’
Amid worries about pay and new confusion about if people should be working or not during the new lockdown, workers are organising in new ways, writes Stuart Melvin.
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Cops need to come clean on predictive policing of 250,000 people
Avon & Somerset Police are using algorithms to predict how likely someone is to commit a crime. A logical next step for policing or an invitation for discrimination?
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“A woman was denied emergency contraception at Asda. This is a private problem of public concern.”
When rights of different groups in society collide, compromises need to be made. But with reproductive rights, we need to do better so that women in need come first.
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Housing Bristol Moving On: Racism Against Travellers
‘I’m an Irish Traveller. The government is attacking us at every angle’
The Home Office plans to criminalise trespass, a move campaigners say threatens Travellers' way of life.
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‘Plans for new roads threaten Bristol’s countryside and limit action on the climate crisis’
The Local Transport Plan seems caught between tackling the climate crisis and building roads to boost economic growth, writes Dr Steve Melia.
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This feels like prison’: we need to talk about school exclusions
Too many children in Bristol are subject to exclusions, which disproportionately impact those from BME and working-class communities, and have been linked to rising youth violence. The system needs to change.
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I’m Jewish and I’m still campaigning for Corbyn’s Labour
Antisemitism is real, but Corbyn’s Labour is not where the danger lies, writes Sage Brice.
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“Privatising non-emergency ambulance services is bad for patients”
Across the south west, patient transport services have been transferred to private firms. But, a former NHS employee argues, the process has raised serious questions about their ability to do the job – and about wider fragmentation of our health system.
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Measles is back, and it’s not just because of anti-vaxxers
We need to take our message out of surgeries and into communities, says a Bristol pharmacist
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Masculinity and my Black male experience
The biggest problem with a stereotype isn’t that it’s false but that it’s the only story being told.
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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?