Monthly Archives: September 2007

Tory toenail worshippers refuse to publically back their slave trading boy

They can’t get down to All Saints on Corn Street quick enough on a wet and windy October morning to worship the remnants of the great man’s toenails. But it seems Bristol’s Edward Colston loving Tories aren’t quite so keen … Continue reading

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Competition time!

Big prizes to be won: This is a small section of the council’s recent press release about the recommendations of the recent citizen’s jury on recycling. All you have to do is tell us what you think it it means. … Continue reading

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Toffs at the top

Former Bristol South East MP, aristo-socialist Tony Benn’s been hitting the headlines again. Firstly because his niece, Emily, has been selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency on the south coast despite not yet … Continue reading

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Class in the classroom (Part II)

by Keren Suchecki Ahh, the new school year! As usual Bristol’s LEA’s tongue is sticking out the corner of its mouth in concentration as it tries to understand the latest GCSE results. One week Bristol’s Director of Children and Young … Continue reading

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It's Tory candidate's gone mad I tell you

It looks like The Blogger’s favourite Tory gal, Bristol North West parliamentary candidate Charlotte Leslie, has found herself a “straight banana issue”. This is the peculiarly Tory habit of “discovering” strange and bizarre pieces of legislation usually from Europe, but … Continue reading

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A lovely, social time for all?

You’ve gotta love the local anarcho-cyclist Critical Mass contingent. They’re now optimistically describing their last effort in Bristol back in May as “a lovely, social ride around Bristol”. Although they do go on to say: “There was a near police … Continue reading

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Vowlsie ain't gonna like this!

Redland Conservatives are running a Film Night on 18 October 2007 at the Conservative Club, 5 Westfield Park, Clifton, Bristol. The film? Mine your Own Business – The Dark Side of Environmentalism I fear Vowles the Green is going to … Continue reading

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Pass the sickbag: Writers’ Rooms

That Guardian Review column that never fails to disappoint… This week we meet Joshua Ferris, some tricksy New York-based novelist who has created a(n extremely) minor sensation with his debut novel, Then We Came to the End, that’s supposed to … Continue reading

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The not so young Adonis makes an appearance

Entirely coincidentally – at the same time as The Blogger was publishing ‘The Masterplanners’, querying Bristol Education Department’s long term plans for secondary education in the city – who should roll into town on Friday? Only Lord Adonis himself, the … Continue reading

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This is England (and Scotland and Wales)

If you wanted to suggest a simple core principle underpinning the UK and its politics at the start of the 21st Century, you could do worse than propose something along the lines of the Voltaireian: “I might disagree with what … Continue reading

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