Category Archives: Blogging

The McCarthy touch

Posted on December 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Another local politician shows the kind of sure touch we’ve come to expect from the city’s leadership … Wednesday found “award winning” blogger Kerry McCarthy breathlessly explaining to us “Why I haven’t been blogging.” Apparently the Bristol East MP had … Continue reading →

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Tidings of red trousers and joy …

Posted on December 1, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s that time of year again. We’ve just dusted down the Trojan Christmas Box Set here at Blogger HQ so we thought we’d give you the Christmas itinerary. And what a coup we have for readers this year. After the … Continue reading →

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Local MP: People on benefits "lack social skills" and don't know "what is right or proper"

Posted on November 26, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour’s Bristol East MP, Kerry McCarthy, has been getting a bit of useful publicity from her slightly obscure attacks on the Jeremy Kyle Show made in Parliament yesterday. She has continued her old-fashioned Tory-style moral crusade on this less-than-urgent matter … Continue reading →

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Content is king?

Posted on November 23, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Lib Dem leader Barbara Janke’s got a lot to say on her new website.

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Local MP receives minor award for blogging that's barely worth mentioning really

Posted on November 21, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Frankly unbearable levels of smugness over on Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy’s blog today after she was given some Mickey Mouse award only open to MPs for her blog. Since the news yesterday she seems to have given up any … Continue reading →

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Car crash blog post of the week

Posted on November 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Take a bow Bristol’s only Green Councillor, Charlie Bolton. In an extraordinarily misjudged outburst on his blog, Charlie managed to put not only a large dent in his credibility and raise huge questions about his personal integrity, he’s also effortlessly … Continue reading →

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All the news that's fit to print?

Posted on November 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of the Evening Cancer publishing anything about the David Bishop Greenbank land sale scandal. No doubt the fact that their Saturday columnist, Bristol’s most pompous man, George Ferguson is intimately involved in the scandal is entirely coincidental … Continue reading →

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Simon Caplan's slander watch: day 1

Posted on October 29, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

“Please can you stick to the issues and not hide behind your anonymity to slander employees at the council who are doing their best to communicate information to the public and playing their part in promoting road safety,” whines city … Continue reading →

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Phew!

Posted on October 2, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Ordinary council workers must be breathing a sigh of relief tonight. Because while today’s front page Cancer story confirms that there’s a chance that their highly trained, vetted and well-socialised senior managers may indeed send them a photo of their … Continue reading →

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BBC: ain't life brand?

Posted on September 22, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

What’s this we find on the BBC Bristol website, with its own special link given pride of place on their homepage? Why, it’s only the completely independent, uncommercial and objective blog of Sue Stones, the manager of the new Harvey … Continue reading →

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