We arrived at Bristol Crown Court, at the beginning of the trial on 30 November 2020, to find the press bench no longer available under Covid restrictions. Just as journalists are eventually housed in ...

The murder of James Bulger in 1993 by two 10-year-old boys was an horrific act of violence that essentially led to a huge change in the country’s youth justice system: the abolition of the legal term ...

Full disclosure: I’m profiling an organisation I once worked for. I wondered if that counts as a conflict of interest – but I couldn’t edit a print edition themed on youth justice without mentioning ...

The British government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was dealt two serious blows this month. Not only was the decision to ban the group found unlawful in High Court, a ...

With long treatment waiting lists, negative media coverage and rising transphobia, life is becoming harder for trans people ...

From Klezmer to queer folk-punk, Bristol’s Jewish artists are keeping a radical tradition of antifascism alive ...

In 1940s Nazi-occupied Denmark, landscape architect Carl Theodor Sørensen noticed something: children ignored the playgrounds he built—they’d much rather make their own. And so Sørensen came up with ...

Dr Edson Burton wears many different hats, both figuratively and literally. He’s a writer, performer, historian, poet, well-dressed man about town, and – as you’ll know if you follow his social ...

The Green Party have secured a historic victory in Bristol’s local elections, falling just short of taking overall control of the council. After eight years of Labour being in power under mayor Marvin ...

On a spring day last year, Heidi Sævareid was walking her dog with a friend through Temple Quay in central Bristol. Stopping by the river for coffee, the pair were enjoying a brief bask in the sun ...

Booking controversial punk-rap duo Bob Vylan could cost independent festival Shindig its future, organisers say — but they’re standing firm. Members of the South Cotswold Conservative Association ...

Neil sits down with the ‘King of Southmead’ to discuss social media beef after his recent signing for Gloucester, class and culture in rugby, and how it feels to face the end of a sporting career When ...