Scandal over COVID testing failure grows as Stroud rates spiralling
What went wrong, why were warnings ignored and where does the buck stop?
By Jamie O’Dell
Local political leaders
Stroud and COP26: Equipping Stroud’s homes for the future
By Jamie O’Dell
In Stroud, emissions from our homes are the one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas
Senseless and cruel: Impending Universal Credit cut will impact thousands in Stroud
By Jamie O’Dell
As of July 2021, 6,202 people in the Stroud constituency were receiving Universal Credit. On
The racist Clock and the Right’s Culture War, Stroud need not be divided
By Jamie O’Dell
Bright red lips, tobacco leaf skirt, club in hand whilst tethered to a wall by its
Local Election heats up as complaint submitted regarding ‘downright lie’ in Stroud Conservatives campaign material
By Jamie O’Dell
As debates over the Conservative government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and related government contracts
XR co-founder protests funding of polluting industries by breaking window at Barclays Bank in Stroud
“Let it be the windows of the banks that are broken not the life support systems of the earth and our children’s future. Let it be the windows of this failed system that are broken not our family across the world.”
Democracy? Siobhan Baillie votes for anti-protest Bill that could mean jail for causing ‘serious annoyance’
By Cassius Smith-Frazer, Jamie O’Dell and James Beecher
Last week we saw the Metropolitan Police violently break up a
Ending harassment and violence against all women, everywhere
By Jamie O’Dell*
Content note: Sexual Violence
Sarah Everard was last seen walking home from Clapham Common in south
What emergency? Gloucestershire County Council invests £100 million of pension pot in fossil fuels
Despite the GCC declaring a council emergency in May 2019 – with a commitment to being carbon neutral by 2050 – it continues to rely on fossil fuels for over four percent of its total pension fund value
Clothing colonialism: Stroud and the East India Company
“The details of past and present colonial exploitation outlined here, and Stroud’s own benefiting from it, shouldn’t come as a fundamental surprise.”
