inequality

Edition 15

Safeguarding shouldn’t mean alienating: parents criticise FGM investigations

There’s growing discontent among sections of the Bristol Somali community around how anti-FGM efforts are being handled. Getting the balance wrong risks driving a wedge between families and the professionals paid to protect children.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

City

Women who built Bristol: ‘We were challenging all the time’

A look at some of the great women who helped shape this city.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Photography

PHOTOESSAY: Different sides of Southmead

A few photos show the vibrancy of the often-maligned neighbourhood of Southmead.

Colin Moody

City

Gasheads are taking action against hunger in Bristol

Disgusted at the rise of food poverty in Bristol, a group of Rovers fans are stepping up.

Jack Newcombe

Features

Coercion: the disturbing hidden crime of controlling a partner

It’s at the heart of domestic abuse, but the police are failing to implement the new law.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Photography

The cared-for become carers

Elm Tree Farm is a working farm in Stapleton providing support and training to adults with learning disabilities and autism. Photographer Esther May Campbell spent a year documenting it.

Esther May Campbell

City

Learning the legal hustle

Bristol-based project Street2Boardroom is ready to shake up the street and business worlds, but challenges lie ahead. “We can’t live in a society where people...

Jack Newcombe

People's History

Bringing the fight against apartheid to Bristol

Remembering Ron Press, the white South African dissident who became a leading light in Bristol activism.

Colin Thomas

Ideas and Action

Collective re-organisation

In Bristol, people are turning to alternative unions like ACORN and the IWW to get their voices heard on critical issues such as housing and workplace inequality.

Jenny Stringer

City

Ice cream scandal: the Lopresti business investigation continues…

Earlier this year we exposed the underpayment and poor working conditions at the Lopresti ice cream and property business. The allegations keep coming in.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Ideas and Action

Free money for everyone: not such a wild idea anymore

The idea of a no-strings income for all citizens is making waves in the UK and beyond – we asked a leading Bristol academic why the time may be right for a universal basic income.

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn

Reports

Lopresti tries to cover-up exploitation…by removing stickers!

Can you spot the difference?

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn
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