Category Archives: Blogging

Bristol Labour Photoshop Horror!

Posted on April 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to Guido Fawkes for the photo. Seems the Labour candidate for Lawrence Hill, Busharat Ali, has been caught faking photographs of himself on stop the war marches. Full details here. Ali has also been somewhat coy about how long … Continue reading →

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Where the Blogger leads the mainstream follow…

Posted on April 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Firstly, a couple of new links added to the site: A Labour-friendly blog from some of the crisis hit home care staff threatened with privatisation, redundancy and pension cuts – http://bristolhomecare.blogspot.com/ A new Ashton Court Festival blog where you can … Continue reading →

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In the Post

Posted on April 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Local public sector PR consultant now mooonlighting for the Evening Post, Maurice Fells, semi-coherently rambles his way through a list of pubs due for demolition in today’s paper. He says: “… in Parson Street, the Enterprise Inn has been locked … Continue reading →

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Election? What election?

Posted on April 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

What with it being election time, The Blogger thought he better find out a bit about the candidates standing, party manifestos and the like. Where better to look than the internet? Um, anywhere really, judging by the miserable efforts made … Continue reading →

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Hypocrite Watch: Oliver Kamm

Posted on April 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Times columnist and combative new-Labour neo-con Oliver Kamm has a crack at Bloggers in The Guardian today. He says: It is a democratic medium, allowing anyone to participate in political debate without an intermediary, at little or no cost. But … Continue reading →

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Digitally challenged

Posted on April 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council’s very, very expensive ‘flagship’ e-democracy site in all its current glory. Are they trying to tell us something? Bristol, of course, recently lost out on £2m of funding in the government’s Digital Challenge to Sunderland. Perhaps the … Continue reading →

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Top tips for journalists

Posted on March 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

#1. When on assignment in Iraqi Kurdistan make sure your driver is aware of the different Iranian opposition groups operating in the territory News that US journalist Michael Totten‘s visit to meet the leadership of english-speaking, social-democratic moderates from the … Continue reading →

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