This was the week that the council published it's £420m budget for 2021/22. We have digested the numbers and sat through the zoom calls so you don't have to. We also spoke to Carla Denyer from the Greens, as well as Nicola Bowden Jones from Labour who buth submitted budget amendments. However, after a decade of austerity was there actually much room for disagreement between councillors? Is the real action in the huge private sector partnerships that didn't grab the headlines?

At the end we spoke to Simon Holmes from St Philips Marsh Nursery school who is objecting to plans to build a waste processing plant just metres from his nursery. But is an industrial estate an appropriate place for a nursery school?

With Tin Hinson (@tinhinz88) and Rohan Roy (@riderz_of_rohan)

01/03/21 Council Budget and Waste Processing

For International Women's Day we have a special edition of Demand a New Normal with Kiran Khatra, who is speaking to organisers of the Women's Strike about what happens if women withdraw all the invisible labour which keeps the world functioning.
We speak to Lana Crosbie about schools reopening. We have a report on how £50m got added to the bill for the rebuilding of the Bristol Beacon and we speak to Marcus Smith about his new documentary for the Bristol Cable on the phenomenon of vaccine hesistancy.

With Tin Hinson (@tinhinz88) and Priyanka Ravel (@PriyRaval).

08/03/21 Women's Strike, Schools Reopen, Bill for Bristol Beacon & Vaccine Hesistancy

In the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard we spoke to an activist who says that prison cannot solve violent patriarchy. Kiran Khatra spoke to youth from the Afrikan Carribean assembly about various issues including how reperations could work in Bristol, we speak to Roy Delaney about the removal of Banksy's Atichoo from Totterdown and our very own Priyanka Raval talks about why the Bristol Cable is boycotting the Society of Editors awards.
With Tin Hinson (@tinhinz88), Priyanka Raval (@priyraval) and Rohan Roy (@riderz_of_rohan)

15/03/21 Sarah Everard, Banksy removed, Arfikan Carribean Assembly Youth & Racist Press

In the aftermath of Sunday 21sts Kill The Bill protests we look back on the protests, both trying to sort fact from fiction in terms of what happened, but also speaking to protesters about the Bill they were trying to block. As Bristol City Council attempts to shut down strip clubs Kiran Khatra speaks to a dancer, Margot, who says that it's wrong to blame patriarchy on provocative women.

With Priyanka Raval (@priyraval), Tin Hinson (@tinhinz88) and Rohan Roy (@riderz_of_rohan).

22/03/21 Kill The Bill protests and A Stripper Speaks Out

We speak to Dr Oscar Berglund who says that it is not true that some forms of protest necessarily undermine your cause. We speak to Cllr Jo Sargeant about why she is defecting from Labour and we speak to an expert on the impact of the proposed new asylum laws.

With Tin Hinson @tinhinz88, Priyanka Raval @priyraval and Rohan Roy (@riderz_of_rohan)

29/03/21 Does rioting undermine your cause? Jo Sargeant defects from Labour, New Asylum Bill

Priyanka Ravel and Rohan Roy are joined by guest producer Valentin Saiz.
Kiran Khatra investigates the challenging concept of police abolition. Tin speaks to Riley Quinn to find out what the hell Greensill Capital was and why it was given so much money, and Priyanka speaks to Euella Jackson from the Mayor's Commission on Racial Equality.

12/04/21 TIN'S ON HOLIDAY Police Abolition, Greensill & Is Britain Racist Report

Priyanka is away on holiday so it's a Tin special. I take the opportunity to fill half the show with football chat with Neil Maggs. As the council begins eviction proceedings against van dwellers in Hengrove we talk with Vehicles for Change about why people live in vans. We get an update on how Greensill Capital Scandal demonstrates that the whole economy blurs the line between fraud and real production, and as President Biden announces a withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan we reflect on 20 years of war.

19/04/21 The Tin Takeover! Neil Maggs v the Superleague, Vans & Afghanistan

Samy Lendvai-Karmout grew up in Gaza. He talks with Tin Hinson about the occupation, violence, resistance and international solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Recorded the day after large demonstrations were held in Bristol against the Israeli Defence Force's latest assault and the ongoing occupation.

An extended version of the interview that we play out on our 17th May episode.

Is Israel-Palestine complicated? With Samy Lendvai-Karmout

As BLM protesters win a court verdict that their detention by Avon and Somerset Police was unlawful we speak to both the activists involved and a barrister representing them. We have an interview with Phil Chamberlain, who is an expert in police and the media to find out about the ongoing Inquiry into Undercover Policing. And finally we have part II of Demand a New Normal on police and prison abolition.

With Tin Hinson, Kiran Khatra Rohan Roy and Priyanka Ravel.

26/04/21 Protesters Court Win, Undercover Policing & DANN on Abolition Part 2

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