Opinion

Moving on: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities

‘Why we must challenge media narratives of Travellers’

A Cable member recently cancelled their membership because we write about inequalities faced by Gypsies, Roma and Travellers instead of where the latest unauthorised encampment is. Here’s why we do that.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Moving on: Bristol's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities

‘Sites set up during coronavirus offer hope for new understanding between Bristol’s vehicle-dwelling communities and the council’

In the midst of the pandemic, Bristol council has created two new temporary sites for the city’s vehicle-dwellers. Insiders’ perspectives show just how beneficial providing land in this way is for these ever-diversifying communities.

Andreas Nicolaou and Jack Clements

Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services

Opinion: ‘The NHS sends too many mental health patients to hospital for expensive, ineffective care’

People are being sent away to private mental health providers for specialist treatment, but this often means poorer outcomes at higher costs, says occupational therapist Keir Harding.

Keir Harding
Keir Harding

Opinion

‘Bristol museum’s ‘Do You Believe in Magic?’ exhibition risks disappearing colonised people’

Deya Mukherjee examines Bristol Museum's recent 'visually stunning' but problematic 'Do You Believe in Magic' exhibition.

Deya Mukherjee

Opinion

Analysis: How £35 million of public money was ‘lost’ to Bristol Energy

Old Sparky, Private Eye’s energy specialist, dissects what went so wrong for Bristol’s energy company in this long read special

Old Sparky

Coronavirus in Bristol

‘Coronavirus means it’s never been more important to deal with the scandal of killer cold homes in Bristol’

Spring is bringing warmer temperatures now, but the COVID-19 pandemic has added an extra reason to act on living conditions that cause thousands of preventable deaths each winter, says Sarah Becker

Sarah Becker

Opinion

‘Covid-19 is creating a housing crisis in Bristol’ – A lettings agent on how to avert it

Tenants don’t need to be lumped with rent arrears and landlords can still get their rent in the long run, writes Bristol lettings agent Boris Drappier.

Boris Drappier

Opinion

‘We need nature to help stem Bristol’s flood risk’

As the effects of climate change become more severe, so too will Bristol’s flooding. And artificial barriers and walls aren't enough, writes Jake Chapman.

Jake Chapman

Coronavirus in Bristol

‘We must not let Bristol’s coronavirus recovery be built on shortsighted banks, empty gestures and missed opportunities’

The shape of economic recovery is being set by powerful local institutions. We must guard against reinstating the ‘old normal’ says Adam Cantwell-Corn

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Coronavirus in Bristol

‘Coronavirus shows growing our own food is now a necessity – and Bristol is fertile ground’

Bristol’s food movement has been catapulted into action and is meeting overwhelming demand in this current health crisis, says Grow Wilder’s Matt Cracknell.

Matt Cracknell

Coronavirus in Bristol

“Working with mutual aid groups has shown me we can get through this crisis. And become stronger.”

COVID community care, or mutual aid groups, have sprung up across the country. There are hundreds – if not thousands – of people involved in...

Heather Mack

Opinion

‘We need better data and more testing to avoid coronavirus deaths in our care homes’

New data reveals that nearly one in three of Bristol’s coronavirus deaths have taken place in care homes. Nick Lawrence, a Cable member who used to work in public health, is baffled by the lack of up-to-date data and the government’s testing strategy.

Nick Lawrence
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