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Features

Banjo Island: the close-knit community behind the reputation

Despite its fearsome reputation, we found a warm community and good living on Banjo Island estate in Cadbury Heath.

Maff Tucker

Ideas and Action

Learning not to abuse your partner

Hannah Vickers

Interviews

Artificial intelligence, robots, and the future of society: interview with Darren Jones

Sandi Dheensa and Michael Cox

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I did time for tagging

Jack Keeling, who was imprisoned for graffiti, talks to the Bristol Cable about his sentence, Bristol’s graffiti scene and the council’s promise to create legal graffiti walls.

Hannah Vickers

Voices

Should strip clubs be banned?

Bristol Sex Workers and Kate Jerrold

Ideas and Action

Among the trauma and the bullshit: Thoughts of a black social worker

Anonymous

Photography

City were on a high, but which way will the Robins fly?

Striking photos from the stands at Ashton Gate and a few words from a diehard Robins fan.

Norberto Fernández Soriano and Stanley Hughes

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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.