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Monthly Archives: November 2007
The Big Arse: greenwash photo-op watch
Pictured is an embarrassing clown alongside someone dressed up as Robin Hood. The question that needs to printed on that bit of paper is ‘can Bristol bear this idiot in charge any longer?’ What passes for a leader in this … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Environment, Global warming, Labour Party, Local government
Tagged Helen Holland
There is 1 comment
Hammond's homecare plans unravel
Peter Hammond and the Labour Party’s promise at the last local election was to keep the city’s home care service “in-house”. We might have understood from this there would be no more privatisation of Bristol city council’s home care service … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Home Care, Labour Party, Local elections 2007, Local government, Politics
Tagged Alun Beynon, Peter Hammond, Sean Beynon
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An invitation to the shed?
Sid and Doris Bonkers may soon have to send out that first gilt-edged invitation for a night out in their shed in Sea Mills. Writer of a The Naked Guide To Bristol, Gil Gillespie, who also used to write a … Continue reading
The Blogger get's it wrong, wrong, wrong
Not an admission we have to make around here that often you’ll agree and, yes, it’s hard to countenance but The Blogger’s got it wrong. On Friday we said: In another piece of transport news, that no doubt will be … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Local government, Transport
Tagged Colin Knight, Mark Bradshaw, Mike Norton
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Bristol not a media ball balls
Exciting news just in from the spiritual home of the laptoperati, Bristol Media. This is the local website that acts as a sort of online support group where badly paid marketing assistants, PR nobodies, wannabe web designers, media studies graduates … Continue reading
Only in South Bristol . . .
A half-dressed Denise Van Outen who was not in Hartcliffe today The new Morrison’s store at Hartcliffe – launched today in a hail of crazed government regeneration hyperbole that was enough to make you think they’d rebuilt the fucking Pompidou … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Developments, Hartcliffe, MPs
Tagged Dawn Primarolo, Denise Van Outen, Helen Holland, Ken Morrison
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Mailer
The last 25 years haven’t been particularly kind to Norman Mailer, who died yesterday, as his various attempts to produce “The Great American Novel” all ended in dismal and embarrassing failure. But go a bit further back and The Armies … Continue reading
New additions
A couple of new additions to the blogroll. _saturnine who provided the recent Philip Street graffiti photos also has a blog, mainly of photos, here. Bristol Anarchist Black Cross, campaigning for prison reform have also recently started a blog. Their … Continue reading
Full of Eastern promise?
Bristol East MPs old and new in the news this week. The former MP until 2005, Jean Corston, the New labour ultra-Blairite ultra-loyalist whose ruthless focus on her Westminster career rather than her constituents saw her rise to be Chair … Continue reading