Ideas and Action

“Why we’re extending solidarity to all migrants”

Alice Cutler is the Welcome Centre Manager at Bristol Refugee Rights.

Alice Cutler

Boot Out Bailiffs

Bad news for bailiffs, good news for citizens as council slashes use

Use of bailiffs has fallen off a cliff since July.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

Revealed: Homemade Spice infiltrates Bristol prison

Drones, rampant violence and under-staffing as HMP Bristol struggles to deal with Spice problem.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Relative of Bristol Brink’s-Mat gangster jailed as part of organised crime ring

10 men including John 'Goldfinger' Palmer's son-in-law jailed for roles in extortion, drug dealing and blackmail gang. 

Alon Aviram
Michael Gillard and Alon Aviram

Opinion

Opinion: Tourist tax should just be the start

Adding a couple of quid to a hotel stay to top up Bristol’s coffers sounds appealing – but we need more ambitious thinking to address austerity.

Matthew Hollinshead

Edition 17

Fighting fires and austerity

Catching up with the union that fights for the rights of those who fight fires.

Jenny Stringer

Reports

Fighting the gig economy – of academics not students

Lots of Bristol University staff are highly educated, but casually employed. Bristol UCU is campaigning to change that.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast // Bristol Rugby Club

Bristol Bears' historian Mark Hoskins talks Bristol Rugby - the club's origins in the late-Victorian era, its community role during the World Wars and the professional age.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Interviews

She Makes War is a Bristol musician who wants her country back

Laura Kidd aka She Makes War on her journey from putting on her own nights to crowdfunding entire albums.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Ideas and Action

‘The difference between First Bus and buses that work for us is political pressure’

Why is it, that in 21st century Bristol we don't have reliable public transport, asks Matthew Hollinshead. 

Matthew Hollinshead

Visuals

Watch: the women working on the tools and bucking the trend

Inspiring stories of local women bucking the trend and building successful careers in the trades.

Aphra Evans
Jenny Stringer, Aphra Evans and Kaelyn Maehara

Edition 17

Photoessay: Feeding the people we love

Be it bottle, breast or both, photographer Esther May Campbells’ arresting portraits shatter the stigma to show the beauty of parents feeding their loved ones in Bristol.

Esther May Campbell
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