culture

Hope Is Around The Corner

What are you reading for?

After getting stared at for reading a book at a gig, Nikesh ponders the point of books and gives his recommendations of Bristol bookshops and inspiring authors

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Edition 41

Moyah: Sound of survival

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Hope Is Around The Corner

Indiana Jones would want me to punch Nazis

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Hope Is Around The Corner

Nikesh Shukla's Column

Nikesh Shukla introduces his new Cable column, Hope Is Around the Corner, with a tale that begins with a picture of a twat, and an outdated racist slur.

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from Wigan to LA, via Eastville, with Bristol Northern Soul Club

Alex Turner George Colwey Neil Maggs
Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs

Music

Blazing the fire: Sound system culture through the generations

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – high sheriff Kalpna Woolf on connecting people through food and battling for boardroom diversity

Neil chats to Kalpna Woolf on her journey from west London migrant kid to BBC head of production, cookbook author and boardroom diversity advocate – as well asking what exactly a high sheriff gets up to.

Alex Turner George Colwey Neil Maggs
Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs

Photography

A football fan wearing a flat cap and holding a pint glass cheers, surrounded by other fans.

Photo essay: Down on the Farm

Non-league football club Manor Farm FC provides an antidote to the corporate experience of the top tier.

Francis Peppett

Voices

A woman and standing and smiling on a balcony, wearing a yellow jacket and black trousers. A bright red tour is on the ground floor.

‘Theatre should belong to everyone’: The Bristol artist exploring social change on stage

Portuguese artist Carlota Matos, who made her home in Bristol, uses theatre to tell stories by and with marginalised communities

Jaldeep Katwala
Jaldeep Katwala

Features

A group of people dancing together in a nightclub with pink walls

Joy as resistance: Inside the club night changing Bristol’s queer scene

With violence and political hostility towards trans and queer people on the rise, club night Soft Butch has become a vital space for community, connection, and liberation

Roshan De Stone
Roshan De Stone

Photography

A person with a mohawk and tattooed arms is sitting outdoors at what appears to be a festival gathering. The setting includes other casually dressed individuals in a relaxed, social atmosphere.

Tattoos in a Dock City: celebrating the tales behind Bristol’s body art

The meaning of a person’s tattoo can be nothing – or everything. A project by two local photographers aims to showcase the rich variety that makes the scene in Bristol so special.

Joshua Collins Kieran Woodham
Joshua Collins and Kieran Woodham

Features

A person in a robotic costume with raised fists, standing on a bridge with the London skyline including St. Paul's Cathedral in the background.

Who’s the real joke – the bin-faced comedian or the clowns in charge?

Political satirist and prime minister-baiting candidate Count Binface talks nationalising Adele, the dangers of Keir Starmer’s ‘inch-deep’ majority, and how his pastry policies can improve Bristol.

Arvind Howarth
Arvind Howarth
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