Ideas and Action

Defiant, weary, resigned – meet the locals living under the flight path

With the decision to expand Bristol Airport being announced later tonight, we ask the people most directly affected about how they feel ahead of the verdict.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast: Dr. Edson Burton In Conversation

This week I met with the writer, poet, historian and playwright Dr. Edson Burton. We discussed (among other things) how his historical outlook shapes his...

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Opinion

‘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.

Steve Melia
Steve Melia

Reports

Residents slam ‘serious flaw’ in planning process in campaign to save threatened trees

Crucial questions remain unanswered in the ongoing fight to protect M32 Maples, including who owns the trees.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Features

Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy

More consultation is needed and city needs to work out how to fund it, but Asher Craig says it could be one way to reduce drug deaths, as a mock safe consumption room was on display last week.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

The challenge of pissing the right people off: inside Extinction Rebellion Bristol

Lots has been written about XR, with a mixture of admiration and irritation, hope for the future and concern about some of their methods. Here’s a look at how the Bristol branches work, and their plans for future actions.

Joe Smith

Reports

Final Bristol tower block with Grenfell-like cladding to have it removed

Final Bristol tower bloc with Grenfell-like cladding to have it removed

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Experiment in democracy, as council to pilot citizens’ assemblies

Bristolians could be gathered to make decisions on issues such as the climate crisis.

Matty Edwards
Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter) and Matty Edwards

Callouts

Help us find solutions for Bristol

In the next edition and beyond, we plan to focus on exploring solutions to the biggest issues facing our city. Have your say.

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The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Edition 21

40 years ago, the far right in Bristol was faced down with music, pickets and ballots

With far-right ideas on the rise again, Colin Thomas draws on first-hand accounts and archive material to tell a story from a generation ago.

Colin Thomas

Edition 21

The tale of Bristol’s fascist-sympathising, disability rights-promoting first woman MP

Retracing a mission to uncover the elusive and conflicted past of Bristol’s largely forgotten, fascist-sympathising, disability rights-promoting first woman MP

Madge Dresser

Cable Community News

Another year in building a new media. Here’s to many more. We need it!

This year was a big one for us. Because every year we exist is a big one.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable
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