Category Archives: Bristol

Tory toenail worshippers refuse to publically back their slave trading boy

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

They can’t get down to All Saints on Corn Street quick enough on a wet and windy October morning to worship the remnants of the great man’s toenails. But it seems Bristol’s Edward Colston loving Tories aren’t quite so keen … Continue reading →

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Competition time!

Posted on September 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Big prizes to be won: This is a small section of the council’s recent press release about the recommendations of the recent citizen’s jury on recycling. All you have to do is tell us what you think it it means. … Continue reading →

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Toffs at the top

Posted on September 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Former Bristol South East MP, aristo-socialist Tony Benn’s been hitting the headlines again. Firstly because his niece, Emily, has been selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency on the south coast despite not yet … Continue reading →

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Class in the classroom (Part II)

Posted on September 25, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

by Keren Suchecki Ahh, the new school year! As usual Bristol’s LEA’s tongue is sticking out the corner of its mouth in concentration as it tries to understand the latest GCSE results. One week Bristol’s Director of Children and Young … Continue reading →

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It's Tory candidate's gone mad I tell you

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like The Blogger’s favourite Tory gal, Bristol North West parliamentary candidate Charlotte Leslie, has found herself a “straight banana issue”. This is the peculiarly Tory habit of “discovering” strange and bizarre pieces of legislation usually from Europe, but … Continue reading →

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A lovely, social time for all?

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

You’ve gotta love the local anarcho-cyclist Critical Mass contingent. They’re now optimistically describing their last effort in Bristol back in May as “a lovely, social ride around Bristol”. Although they do go on to say: “There was a near police … Continue reading →

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Vowlsie ain't gonna like this!

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Redland Conservatives are running a Film Night on 18 October 2007 at the Conservative Club, 5 Westfield Park, Clifton, Bristol. The film? Mine your Own Business – The Dark Side of Environmentalism I fear Vowles the Green is going to … Continue reading →

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The not so young Adonis makes an appearance

Posted on September 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Entirely coincidentally – at the same time as The Blogger was publishing ‘The Masterplanners’, querying Bristol Education Department’s long term plans for secondary education in the city – who should roll into town on Friday? Only Lord Adonis himself, the … Continue reading →

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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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Redland Green as expensive as Clifton College shocker!!!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Evening Cancer yesterday reported Redland estate agents’ claims that house prices in the catchment area of Redland Green School have risen by up to 15%. This means a house in the catchment area once costing £500,000 would now cost … Continue reading →

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