What's the difference between a party and a movement? And is communism really on the horizon? Professor Jodi Dean has the ...

Bestselling author and screenwriter Nikesh Shukla writes a monthly culture column, following his curiosity to get to know ...

It’s been almost a year since the worst racist rioting in generations swept across the UK. Dozens of cities in England and Northern Ireland ...

Nikesh Shukla introduces his new Cable column, Hope Around the Corner, with a tale that begins with a picture of a twat, and an outdated racist slur The future of independent, hard-hitting media is in ...

Helen Godwin first became a councillor for Southmead in 2016, was re-elected in 2021, and served as Marvin Rees’ cabinet member for Women, Children and Young People, until she left in August 2021 for ...

Back in the early 2000s, Bristol was one of more than 20 areas chosen by the then-Labour government for potential development of new tram networks. Had things gone ahead as planned, with a proposed ...

Open Democracy journalist and Dark Arts newsletter author Ethan Shone takes Isaac and Priyanka on a whistlestop tour of dark ...

Bristol based Solomon has been an active member of the city’s Black Lives Matter scene. As well as being a writer, performer and lyricist, Solomon campaigns with the youth chapter of the ...

A mother of a son with autism, Nura Aabe has been a central figure in the struggle to secure better special educational needs support in the city – in schools, the council and the Somali community. As ...