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Watch: Why you should back the Cable – in 60 seconds

A breakdown of all the things we've managed to achieve for Bristol in almost a decade of reporting.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Cable Community News

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We’re working to diversify the Cable team. Let’s start with our freelancer base

The Cable exists to challenge the structure of the media, but we are not representative enough of our city. Here’s what we’re doing to change things.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

This Better Work

A cardboard placard showing a swastika being thrown in a bin is raised above a city street full of people protesting

‘We need to face them on the streets’: how trade unions are responding to the far-right threat

The scale of the recent far-right turnout in Bristol rattled many trade unionists. Now, an anti-racist taskforce is forming to organise opposition in the South West, but activists say unions must show they have migrant workers’ backs.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Features

Olga and Maria at a recent Altered States event

Vladimir, vapes and defending democracy: when the Cable met Pussy Riot in BS3

Celebrating the subversive, we spent an evening with the legendary Russian dissidents to get behind the balaclavas to discuss all things protest.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Reports

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Council still hounding people with bailiffs after ‘ethical’ approach promise

The Cable has uncovered evidence Bristol City Council is referring thousands of council tax debts to enforcement agencies despite a stated policy to do so only as a last resort.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

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Under surveillance: how a man was recalled to prison after visiting a Bristol anarchist social centre

Toby Shone’s arrest by counter-terrorism police surveilling the BASE centre in Easton shows the state’s escalating clampdown on political dissent.

Tom Anderson

Reports

computer generated scene of the centre of Bristol with a new bike lane. Variuos people are using lots of forms of transport or walking.

New radical plans tabled to remove cars from Bristol city centre

Proposals to pedestrianise parts of the city centre and give buses more priority that were first developed under Labour are now being consulted on by the new Green-led council.

Steve Melia
Steve Melia

Opinion

‘Bristol can lead the way in pushing for legalising cannabis’

Cannabis is now legally regulated in a growing number of countries around the world, but the UK is being left behind.

Steve Rolles
Steve Rolles

Features

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Leaseholders are calling for feudal system to be abolished, but what will Labour actually change?

Change is on the horizon for leaseholders in Bristol now that Labour is in power. But it can't come soon enough.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Cable Community News

A crowd of far-right protesters are standing off against a line of police officers. One office is wielding a baton.

The Cable View: The right-wing press peddling hateful, racist bullshit has fuelled the violence on our streets. It’s time for change.

When sensationalist drivel is favoured over accurate, balanced, nuanced and insightful journalism, we all lose out.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Reports

A large crowd gather in the road on a city street.

Huge counter demo in Bristol sends clear message that far right not welcome – as it happened

After the Bristol riot on Saturday, Cable reporters were live at the scene as counter protesters returned to the streets to stand up to the far right.

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Sean Morrison, Priyanka Raval and Matty Edwards

Features

A crowd of counter protesters by Castle Park, with one holding up a placard saying 'Fuck off fascists'

Long Read: Bristol took a stand against the far right, and it’s preparing to do it all over again

As the dust settles on the weekends’ clashes, the Cable reflects on the evening’s events - the racism, the resistance and the tensions that fuelled them.

Priyanka Raval Sean Morrison
Priyanka Raval and Sean Morrison

Opinion

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‘Bristol’s council housing failings are shocking – but are just the tip of a massive national iceberg’

Decades of underinvestment in council homes by central government have led to unacceptable living standards for tenants, in our city and across the country. A national solution is needed.

Paul Smith
Paul Smith (Elim Housing Association)

Features

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Are the Greens going to save Yew Tree Farm?

Yew Tree Farm, one of Bristol’s most important wildlife sites, remains under threat from private and council development. But now the Greens say they don't have the power to deliver on their commitment to protect it.

Nick Scott
Nick Scott
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