Legal aid cuts keeping refugee families apart

A systemic squeeze is making it far harder for people fleeing violence and oppression to reunite with loved ones.

Bristol projects breaking down borders

What do Bristolian social workers, herbalists, and circus performers have in common? Using their skills to to provide direct aid to refugees, in border zones...

Not business as usual

Bristol’s small and medium-sized business sector is ethnically diverse – but BME-led businesses face barriers to growth and success. Could 2017 be the year when the city finally starts to celebrate its diverse business community instead?

Institutional racism in one graph?

Why are Britain’s own citizens proving so interesting to Immigration Enforcement officials?

“Justifiable” discrimination: 500% fee increase for asylum appeals

“A Dafuri man claiming asylum has been trying for two years to bring his wife here. If he can’t afford to even go to court and appeal...

Looking out for our wellbeing or spying on us?

The anti-radicalisation Prevent programme in Bristol, debated.

Positive News

The country is in turmoil, the political establishment is tearing itself apart, the future is unknown… and on the whole, Bristol didn’t vote for it. Seems a good time to celebrate a few bits of positive news and local victories from around the city…

Hacking away at the problems

Positive news for a Friday: techies and people with experience as refugees create projects together in Bristol’s first Refugee Hack Day.

A view from Bristol’s front line against fascism i.e. Hotwell Road

Racist and anti-racists groups tried to clash yesterday. The Police spent tens of thousands trying to stop them.

Bristol MP votes to deny lone refugee children entry to UK.

Bristol North West MP votes with the Government to turn down entry for unaccompanied child asylum seekers.

Mustaqbalka Xawaaladaha

Stapleton Road, Easton. Wuxuu u eegyahay dukaan yar oo xaafadda ku dhexyaala oo iibiya cunto fudud, cabitaan, sigaar iyo waxyaabaha caadiga ah.

A lifeline: Stapleton Road to Somalia

Stapleton Road, Easton: another corner shop selling snacks, drinks and fags. But this one, like hundreds across the UK, doubles up as an international banking terminal.