Category Archives: Blogging

The Bristol Blogger is moving home

Posted on January 15, 2010 by The Bristol Blogger

The recent hoo-ha with WordPress, which resulted in the Blogger removing some posts from the blog, has highlighted how vulnerable this blog and its contents are to WordPress’s whims. The Blogger was particularly disturbed by this in WordPress’s Terms of … Continue reading →

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Legal notes from a night in the pub

Posted on January 8, 2010 by The Bristol Blogger

Champagne corks were reputed to be popping on the third floor of the Council House on Tuesday morning as Jan allegedly threw open the Strategic Leadership fridge to all and sundry to celebrate the demise of The Bristol Blogger. Alas, … Continue reading →

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Howard and me

Posted on January 7, 2010 by The Bristol Blogger

Regular readers will know that The Bristol Blogger was forcibly removed from the internet by those oh-so trendy freedom of speech spouting Californian techno buffs at WordPress on Tuesday morning without explanation. It later transpired that the geeks had decided … Continue reading →

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Election 2010: Tory wonderweb joy!

Posted on January 4, 2010 by The Bristol Blogger

Just been reading Eugene Byrne‘s political predictions for 2010 in Venue. A stonking good read mainly because the The Bristol Blogger is in it. Although another highlight is Helen Holland cracking a decentish joke while KRS will be on the … Continue reading →

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Jonnie, Jonnie, Jonnie come out, come out from wherever you are …

Posted on December 14, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

They say a week’s a long time in politics but it’s a very short time indeed for the Lib Dems’ Planning and Transport supremo, Jon Rogers, to make a complete nob of himself and demonstrate he’s a disempowered old fool … Continue reading →

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The Copenhagen mystery

Posted on December 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

That pitifully thick Clifton Tory-in-disguise that calls herself the leader of this city, Barbara Janke, gave a pitifully thick explanation for flying to Copenhagen to save the planet by doing her Christmas shopping – along with two colleagues, between them … Continue reading →

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The art of blogging: just keep banging your head against that brick wall …

Posted on December 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

… Until the right people start listening: Job done!

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Dinosaur watch

Posted on November 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

That wacky bunch of no-hoper Stalinists, conspiracy nuts and embittered ex-Northcliffe hacks who make up the membership of the local branch of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) have come up with a recruitment plan. “BRISTOL NUJ can be at … Continue reading →

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Lib Dems in office: Bishop in power: business as usual at the Council House

Posted on September 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Minor uproar has greeted this blog’s revelations that almost a fifth of the land at Ashton Gate pencilled in by Bristol City FC to become a Tesco Extra belongs to Bristol City Council. And even by the extraordinarily low intellectual … Continue reading →

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Blog of the week

Posted on September 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s been a good week locally for mentalist blog posts. The Blogger’s own balloon dueling effort rather pales into insignificance alongside the Green Bristol Blogger’s ‘THREE DIE IN BANKSY QUEUE‘ extravaganza today and Charlie’s fascinating insight that if you were … Continue reading →

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