Category Archives: Bristol

Railway path: dates for the diary

Posted on February 13, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

An example of the appalling consequences of direct action involving a bucket of shit and a politician. Here’s the beginning of a useful list of meetings where people against the BRT route on the railway path can get up, close … Continue reading →

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University challenged

Posted on February 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Great news just in! A recent parliamentary answer reveals that the city’s best known higher education college, the University of Bristol, continues to be one of the most ridiculously exclusive and elitist institutions in the country. Latest figures show that … Continue reading →

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Railway path round-up

Posted on February 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s a new summary of events so far at Conserve England, featuring many of the best of people’s comments from here and the BBC among others. Yesterday’s Evening Cancer, meanwhile, might already have provided us with the quote of the … Continue reading →

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The Holocaust, Israel and our Muslim spokesman

Posted on February 11, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

A couple of weeks ago the Blogger took issue with the Evening Cancer’s new Muslim columnist and self-styled “community leader”, Farooq Siddique, for hysterically comparing the State of Israel to Germany’s Nazi regime in a piece purporting to mark Holocaust … Continue reading →

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The corporate takeover of the railway path

Posted on February 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s some sterling research on the role of First Group and the BRT scheme over on Bristol Indymedia by Cyclopath. They point out the guided bus used in the sketch for the proposed BRT route on Bristol and Bath Railway … Continue reading →

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Railway path: the corporate priorities

Posted on February 9, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

One currently unexplored aspect of the West of England Strategic Partnership’s BRT Project Board – that has devised the plan to destroy the Bristol and Bath Railway Path – is the presence on it of a number of large corporations … Continue reading →

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NEWS FLASH: Dead body in office for over 10 years

Posted on February 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

A political body, which is believed to have been dead for at least a decade, has been found in a Bristol council chamber – where council officers had carried on working as usual. The corpse, believed to be the city’s … Continue reading →

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Diversity news

Posted on February 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

OK. How many buzz words can you get in one title? Beat this: SW Equality & Diversity Action Plan and SWRDA Draft Corporate Plan Consultation Event Start: 19 Feb 2008 – 10:00 End: 19 Feb 2008 – 16:21 Venue: Somerset … Continue reading →

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Cyclepath: Lib Dem press release

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Just in: Here we don’ t go again – Wrong turning on Bristol Rapid Bus Bristol is in danger of losing government funding for a rapid guided bus network, the Liberal Democrats are warning. Bristol and surrounding authorities could lose … Continue reading →

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A new trough for a new day

Posted on February 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like cash-strapped Stephen Williams MP has come up with a new and imaginative way to squander taxpayers money. How about paying to publish – in the local glossie for the yoof, Venue – a sartorially challenged picture of … Continue reading →

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