Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ignoble Savage better for you than Greens?

Posted on March 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of a formal press release announcing the arrival of “Junket” Jan Ormondroyd to run Bristol City Council. So we’ll just have to make do with the one that the council’s PR girl Simon Caplan did back in … Continue reading →

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Multiculturalism news

Posted on March 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Interesting article from Stephen Howe, Professor in the History and Cultures of Colonialism at the University of Bristol, in this month’s New Humanist magazine on what he calls the “general, dreadful intellectual poverty of today’s political Islamism.” He seems to … Continue reading →

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Pretentious?

Posted on March 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

“[The Bridge Cafe at the Clifton Gorge Hotel] is essentially Modern British – whatever that means these days – and it’s unfussy and unpretentious,” writes Cancer food critic Mark Taylor. And here’s a sample of the menu to prove it: … Continue reading →

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Saturday night at the movies

Posted on March 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Two new films about the Railway Path here. Both, in their own way, are far more representative of the traditional left than unwashed hippy “Green Protestors” the Cancer would have you believe. One features Labour’s prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol … Continue reading →

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Friday night is bad gags night

Posted on March 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The back of a bus and the council’s new chief exec. A reader writes … (Made me laugh anyway) Sir, Have you noticed the resemblance between our new Bristol City Council Chief Executive, Jan Ormondroyd and the back end of … Continue reading →

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Practical money wasting from overpaid woman

Posted on March 13, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Looks like our city council’s brand new, top value £180k a year Chief Executive Jan Ormondroyd intends to hit the ground running when she starts work on Monday. The only trouble is that Jan gives the impression that she’s more … Continue reading →

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Pompous prick talks pompous crap!

Posted on March 13, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol’s most pompous man has found this week’s most stupidly pompous bandwagon to jump on. Peter Abraham,  Bristol’s serial civic cross-dresser and deputy Tory leader, announced in yesterday’s Cancer: “a citizen’s allegiance to Crown and country ceremony could give young … Continue reading →

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CONsultants latest

Posted on March 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The view of Bristol enjoyed by our new local CONsultants Another post on what seems to be this weeks’s emerging theme: the city council’s sell-out of Bristol to corporate CONsultants from London because the authority’s superannuated senior officer clique who … Continue reading →

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Fwd: what does our city look like?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

From BBC Bristol … The BBC is collecting pictures of Bristol that capture the soul of the city. Why? Because Bristol is getting a new Chief Executive, and she’s new to the city. Jan Ormondroyd will be given the “official … Continue reading →

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Bristol bloggers galore!!!

Posted on March 11, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Looks like the city’s digital quango, Connecting Bristol, have called in the professionals to show us how this blogging lark should be done. “Announcing the Connecting Bristol Bloggers,” trumpets the website. “A series of Special Guest Bloggers will be contributing … Continue reading →

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