Opinion

Opinion

‘Zero-tolerance behaviour policy may be contributing to exclusion of Bristol’s most vulnerable students’

Michal Grant has worked with many kids excluded from mainstream education who say the Ready to Learn behavioural system is failing them.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Opinion

Why community action is also needed to tackle the energy crisis

In the face of government inaction on the energy crisis, Bristol Energy Network has been organising grassroots action to stop people from falling into fuel poverty.

Rachel Moffat
Rachel Moffat (Bristol Energy Network)

Opinion

‘Rwanda is just one part of the government’s latest attack on asylum seekers’

Bristol Refugee Rights outlines the stark impact of the Nationality and Borders Act on asylum seekers – from dodgy age assessments to going underground.

Tom Daly
Tom Daly (Bristol Refugee Rights)

Opinion

We need international alliances to stop airport expansions

Behind Bristol’s planned airport expansion is a Canadian pension fund. Activists must join forces and take the fight to the largest private investor in European airports.

Tanguy Tomes
Tanguy Tomes

Opinion

Unpopular opinion: We need to pay local councillors more

Pay for politicians is hardly a rallying cry. But it historically has been, and now we need to look again.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

How Bristol needs to tackle its renting crisis, according to the Greens

While it’s so difficult to build enough houses, landlord licensing across the city and rent controls are needed to make renting more secure and affordable, write Green councillors Tony Dyer and Tom Hathway.

Tony Dyer Tom Hathway
Tony Dyer and Tom Hathway

Edition 28

Bristol risks becoming a graveyard of cycling ambition

Promoting safety for cyclists has a positive knock-on effect for health, air pollution and the climate crisis – but without enough political will, funding or decent planning, getting people into the saddle will be an uphill battle.

Ian Pond
Ian Pond

Opinion

‘We need public leaders and institutions to be bold with big ideas, despite the risks and bad PR’

When we face existential issues like the climate crisis, or calls for radical changes to problems that affect us all, we need public institutions and leaders to not be timid.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

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’

You are much more likely to achieve something if you are militant, argues International Public and Social Policy lecturer Oscar Berglund.

Oscar Berglund
Oscar Berglund

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

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

New research has found white men dominate key climate discussion in Bristol, which clashes with the city’s commitment to a just transition. Dr Alix Dietzel explains why this matters on the eve of COP26, and what Bristol needs to do.

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
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