Monthly Archives: November 2007

Things that come back to haunt you

Kerry McCarthy has this to say about Labour’s new foreign office GOAT (Government of all the talents – geddit!), Mark Malloch Brown: he clearly has a huge breadth of knowledge, gained from years of working at the UN. I think … Continue reading

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Half our pupils are missing

Can it only be last week that Labour’s deranged multiculturalist guru Peter Hammond announced: he believed school was a place we went for the opportunity to meet other cultures that lived around us. But oh dear. What a shock. How … Continue reading

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Hammond does it again!

As expected Labour’s Deputy Leader, the bearded fool, Peter Hammond is destroying yet more of Bristol’s Social Services because the hopeless incompetent can’t understand – let alone control – expenditure in his department (again). Back in 2005, as leader of … Continue reading

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Sadistic foodie watch

Looks like Bell’s Diner’s luvvie chef Chris Wicks, darling of the Venue reading classes, hasn’t been telling the whole truth: Bell’s Diner have decided to stop selling Foie-Gras after only one demo against them! Bristol animal rights activists were very … Continue reading

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Fw: the Bristol Festival

New community festival for 2008! A brand new festival is being organised for 2008 by volunteers who feel it’s what the community needs, especially in light of the unfortunate demise of the Bristol Community Festival (at Ashton Court). Built from … Continue reading

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Black schools

The Blogger’s attention was caught by a report posted on Bristol 2007’s Weblog about a recent brief debate on the issue of black only schools for Bristol. Here’s a part of it: Cllr Peter Hammond [a key member of the … Continue reading

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Museum of Bristol update

Predictably the Labour Cabinet nodded through on Thursday the £25m Museum of Bristol project on the site of the Industrial Museum. And just in case any of our elected representatives – not in the cabinet – might have wanted to … Continue reading

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Whitewash? The new blog on the block

The latest blog to appear in Bristol is Bristol 2007’s Weblog. This appears to have been set up to look at the legacy left by the city’s controversial Abolition 200 events this year. The city council’s Abolition 200 Steering Group, … Continue reading

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Hyocrite watch meets eco balls

Not ones to pass up the opportunity to put a semi-naked teenager on their pages, today’s papers are full of stories about teenage supermodel sensation Lily Cole becoming the new face of Marks & Spencer. Cole is currently the posh … Continue reading

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Meet "the new one that you must call the master"

Well, well, well. Who’s this slithering back up the greasy pole into the higher echelons of Bristol’s public life? Those fine and honourable fellows of our local creepy millionaires’ misogynist sect, the Society of Merchant Venturers, have only gone and … Continue reading

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