Opinion: ‘Black Excellence’ shouldn’t hinge on white ideas of success

Achievements should be celebrated, but we should create our own metrics of success.

OPINION: the voting system is broken, it’s time for change

Have you ever felt your vote didn’t count? The turnout in both national and local elections suggests that a lot of people share that view....

Opinion: Unconscious bias training won’t end police institutional racism

When it comes to police racism, is it the case of a few rotten apples or do we need a new barrel altogether? Sam Kidel...

Opinion: The re-tendering revolution is eroding our public services

Disruption of care, risky transition periods and dangerous cost-cutting reveal a broken commissioning cycle. However, an alternative is possible.

Opinion: Bristol’s new phoneboxes could end up spying on you

Councillors should scrutinise plans to introduce phonebox replacements with potentially worrying surveillance capabilities.

Opinion: Surveillance Britain, nothing to fear? Think again

We need to act fast to defend our civil liberties or, like the frog in the pot, we could too late find ourselves in a very different climate.

Opinion: Anna Campbell’s idealism and conviction should inspire us all

Ultimately, she was willing to give her own life so that others might be free. How many people can say that?

Opinion: Bristol Pound ‘looks like Monopoly money’, but is quite the opposite

It may not solve everything but it is a great start.

Voice: A Bristol guide to racist Halloween costumes

“If I can dress up as Captain America why can’t I be an ‘Arab’ or an ‘Indian’? And how dare you offend me by being...