Monthly Archives: August 2007

A towering example

Posted on August 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The television event of the summer finishes tonight with the last episode of Anthony Wonke’s eight part documentary, The Tower, at 10.35pm on BBC 1. If you haven’t seen any of this so far, watch it while you can. The … Continue reading →

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For fuck's sake

Posted on August 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council has been shutting down local area housing offices, providing services near to where council tenants actually live, for years now. The latest round of closures – done in the name of “improved access” – reduces these area … Continue reading →

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Pass the sickbag: Writers' Rooms

Posted on August 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This week’s toe curling effort in The Guardian Review’s regular Pseuds Corner slot, ‘Writers’ Rooms’, comes from pretentious old fart, Picasso biographer John Richardson. The upper class twit says: “I loathed school, but the advantage of going to Stowe was … Continue reading →

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Greener than thou

Posted on August 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

An ungreen corn starch bag? A green newspaper? We all know what bloody environmentalists are like once they get going, so it might be asking for trouble bringing this up, but I notice that both of our green blogger friends … Continue reading →

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"The hacienda must be built"

Posted on August 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

… And I suppose that wanker off the telly sort of did it. “I used to say some people make money and some make history – which is very funny until you find you can’t afford to keep yourself alive.” … Continue reading →

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Lib Dems' pretend friends

Posted on August 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Super-geek Northavon MP Steve Webb has come up with a hilarious little jape to entertain the press for August. The man charged with writing the next Lib Dem election manifesto – a document that combines the realism of an In … Continue reading →

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"The logical conclusions of an anti-establishment loner"?

Posted on August 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Ho, ho, ho… [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8413146821944842079] Hat Tip: 9/11 Cultwatch blog

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Moderated comments off

Posted on August 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As an experiment moderated comments have been turned off on this blog. So it’s post and watch for the next few days…

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Leadership: Bristol City Council style

Posted on August 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

We’re only paying ’em £150,000 a year between them. So I suppose it’s too much to ask Labour’s Education Exec Derek Pickup or the city council’s Director of Education, Heather Tomlinson, to explain to us why the results that have … Continue reading →

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Shayler speaks!

Posted on August 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

David Shayler has denied declaring that he’s the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, King Arthur and Leonardo da Vinci in The Times. He explains: “I’m afraid I didn’t claim to have been Jesus or to be ‘divine’, as you suggest. The … Continue reading →

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