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?

How to heat your home, save cash and the planet

Some basic measures can go a long way to tackling carbon emissions.

Could Housing First put an end to the idea of people being ‘unhouseable’?

A radical alternative to traditional housing solutions is offering hope and stability to Bristolians who have spent years without a home to call their own.

Down but not out: Voices of young people excluded from school

Often marginalised, rarely listened to or understood, the Cable has been working with young people who have left mainstream education to give them a voice.

Bristol SEND crisis: from isolation to family

Amid a crisis in special educational needs, these parents are building their own community.

Bristol: A city of solutions

There’s already so much great work being done across the city to find solutions. Here’s just a few ...

Brian’s story and the scandal of fuel poverty in Bristol

Why many Bristolians can’t afford to keep warm.

“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.

Why women in Bristol are going on ‘strike’

For International Women’s Day this Sunday 8 March, feminist collectives in Bristol are putting on a “Women’s Strike”. The Cable has been following the event's organisers to learn about the personal stories and politics behind the action.

The Bristolian 17-year-old campaigning for racial justice in climate change movement

The Cable catches up with Mya-Rose Craig, the 17-year-old Bristolian activist, about sharing a stage with Greta and race equality in the environmental movement.

Bristol History Podcast: Graffiti and Street Art in Bristol

Nowadays Bristol is internationally known as a centre of graffiti and street art culture. I met with John Nation – pioneer and promoter of graffiti...

‘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.