Category Archives: Blogging

EXCLUSIVE?

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a story from the front page of today’s Cancer – “The campaigning newspaper of the year” – marked in large red letters as an EXCLUSIVE: The next chief executive of Bristol City Council will be paid about £180,000 a … Continue reading →

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Litigious Russian oligarch alert!

Posted on September 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who’s trying to buy Arsenal Football Club, is currently using London lawyers Schillngs to prevent bloggers revealing unsavoury facts about his behaviour and background. Bloggers who’ve been pulled off the web over the last 24 hours include … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 4, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

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On the web this week

Posted on September 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s an excellent piece by Fat man on a keyboard responding to John Pilger’s call for a boycott of Israel in the New Statesman in particular and the “pro-Palestinian left” in general. The Palestine/Israel conflict is not easily reducible to … Continue reading →

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Rock 'n' Roll Bristol style

Posted on August 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

James Barlow today blogs about this tool that reveals where anonymous Wikipedia edits have originated from. One entry from someone at Bristol City Council throws up this little gem about Grant from Massive Attack: “On the morning of Friday, 8 … Continue reading →

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Lib Dems' pretend friends

Posted on August 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Super-geek Northavon MP Steve Webb has come up with a hilarious little jape to entertain the press for August. The man charged with writing the next Lib Dem election manifesto – a document that combines the realism of an In … Continue reading →

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Moderated comments off

Posted on August 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As an experiment moderated comments have been turned off on this blog. So it’s post and watch for the next few days…

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Top 20 political blogs

Posted on August 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The voice of Tory Party Central Office, blogger Iain Dale, is asking people to name their top 20 political blogs to go into the 2007 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. The deadline for submitting your Top 20 is … Continue reading →

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This is priceless

Posted on August 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Anyone following the Nick Cohen/Johann Hari spat across the internet at present? It started with the intensely irritating Independent columnist Hari writing an ill-judged review of Cohen’s book What’s Left? for the New York based Dissent magazine. Cohen has now … Continue reading →

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Tory blog joy

Posted on July 31, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Well rah, rah, rah, jolly hockey sticks and hurrah! hurrah! This looks like terrific fun what? Our very own genuine Tory voice of Oxbridge, private education and privilege (surely modern Conservatism? Ed) right here in Bristol. The Blogger’s favourite Tory … Continue reading →

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