Monthly Archives: June 2007

Class in the classroom

Posted on June 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour’s new education boss, Derek Pickup, has broken cover and given a keynote interview to The Evening Cancer’s so-called Education Correspondent Linda Tanner. Tanner is happy to play pat ball with Pickup, lobbing him daft brown-nosing questions to provide him … Continue reading →

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Blogasmic Bristol Labour

Posted on June 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Hold the front page. The Bristol Labour Party has entered the blogosphere. The Blogger has discovered that Avonmouth councillor Terry Cook has got himself a blog. Here’s what he says: “This is my blog about me and my experiences – … Continue reading →

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A BBC Points West guide to art

Posted on June 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The great works reworked and explained for the West’s audience Picasso’s Guernica (Final Cut): that epic comedy masterpiece with just a bit chopped off! Van Gogh’s Chair Legs: the old master’s simple but hilarious chair legs Matisse’s Reclining nude without … Continue reading →

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Banksy Balls' Spot the Difference

Posted on June 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The picture on the left recently appeared on the BBC West website. Yet again their posh-boy journalists are trying to get all street and down with the kids on us by uncritically talking-up absolutely anything to do with the artist … Continue reading →

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How our beach has been turned into a desert…

Posted on June 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Only officially announced last week in a fanfare of publicity, Bristol’s Urban Beach already has more than a hint of fiasco about it. Reputed to be costing £200k, the beach at Redcliffe was supposed to open on 30 June and … Continue reading →

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Evening Cancer gets it right!

Posted on June 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Loads of Evening Cancer posters from Friday outside various newsagents around town saying: MY EMILY IS NOT BIG BROTHER RACIST UNCLE Can’t argue with their factual accuracy there.

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Wobbly tribunal sensation

Posted on June 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a curiosity… It’s been announced on Bristol Indymedia that The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies, as they’re better known, are going to represent a local train driver sacked by First Great Western at an Employment Tribunal … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Post: Lost and Found

Posted on June 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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Olympic logo New World Order conspiracy proof

Posted on June 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Yes. It had to be. The London Olympics are “in on it too”. Proof positive that a world Zionist conspiracy is afoot: My favourite conspiracy theory of the moment is one claiming that John Lennon was shot by novelist Stephen … Continue reading →

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The Friday night half-pissed post

Posted on June 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger was supposed to write the fourth and final part of his ‘Labour home care policy unveiled’ trilogy (yeah, yeah I know but I don’t know what you call a four-parter) tonight. However, what with a visit to the … Continue reading →

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