Category Archives: Bristol

Tory blog news

Posted on February 25, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

A blog combining Bristol University, the Conservative Party and wealthy students you say. For real? It appears so. And one of the first items on the new BUCA (Bristol University Conservative Association) Blog finds our new student idealist friends getting … Continue reading →

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Fellow travelling with Stop the War

Posted on February 23, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Some Hezbollah paramilitaries making that internationally recognised sign of peace and goodwill. The town in the background is Metula, in the north of Israel. Another sign – as if it were really needed – of the collective madness of the … Continue reading →

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Headline news

Posted on February 23, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristle KRS was rather taken with a headline in Thursday’s Evening Cancer: ACKER BILK BAULKS AT SILAGE BAG EYESORE Which is pretty good stuff. But it’s generally been a good week for Cancer headlines. Here at the Blogger we were … Continue reading →

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In a parallel universe very, very nearby …

Posted on February 22, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

A couple of nuggets added to Charlie Bolton’s blog today … First we learn Bristol City Council is spending £43,000 a year on bottled water. Perfectly reasonable really. How can we possibly expect council officers to drink water out of … Continue reading →

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Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest?

Posted on February 21, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Convention at the city council dictates that when a decision is brought before councillors to consider it’s always accompanied by a detailed report drawn up by supposedly impartial, objective and disinterested city council officers. This report will outline what, in … Continue reading →

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Robotics news

Posted on February 21, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Looks like New Labour’s TOP SECRET Robotics Division have been working overtime in their TOP SECRET lab deep in the bowels of the Houses of Parliament. And we can report that the K3RR4 model that’s been so badly malfunctioning over … Continue reading →

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Corporate backscratch (with added greenwash)

Posted on February 20, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Well, well, well … Who’s this sponsoring the Evening Cancer Business Awards 2008 then? Why knock me down with 10,000 tons of high strength concrete if it isn’t Atkins, the multinational civil engineering outfit (Blogger passim) who’ve recently received a … Continue reading →

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St Christopher of Orlik?

Posted on February 20, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Does the former Labour Councillor for Windmill Hill, Christopher Orlik know something about his former employers we don’t? Not only has he joined the campaign to save the railway path but he’s rejected all the usual sedate campaigning pastimes aimed … Continue reading →

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Democracy update

Posted on February 19, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Simon Bale – new boss of yet another one of the city’s ever-multiplying quangos, the Bristol Partnership – breaks cover in the Cancer today to answer a few soft questions optimistically billed as “an interview” by the Cancer’s imaginative subs. … Continue reading →

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Redland Green: another finance farce

Posted on February 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

When you’re at work, have you ever wondered why the receptionist doesn’t order £75,000 of luxury office furniture on a whim and the admin assistant doesn’t decide on a boring Friday afternoon to order a new £2m fleet of Mercedes … Continue reading →

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