Category Archives: Bristol

Banksy Balls' Spot the Difference

Posted on June 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The picture on the left recently appeared on the BBC West website. Yet again their posh-boy journalists are trying to get all street and down with the kids on us by uncritically talking-up absolutely anything to do with the artist … Continue reading →

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How our beach has been turned into a desert…

Posted on June 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Only officially announced last week in a fanfare of publicity, Bristol’s Urban Beach already has more than a hint of fiasco about it. Reputed to be costing £200k, the beach at Redcliffe was supposed to open on 30 June and … Continue reading →

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Evening Cancer gets it right!

Posted on June 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Loads of Evening Cancer posters from Friday outside various newsagents around town saying: MY EMILY IS NOT BIG BROTHER RACIST UNCLE Can’t argue with their factual accuracy there.

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Wobbly tribunal sensation

Posted on June 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a curiosity… It’s been announced on Bristol Indymedia that The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies, as they’re better known, are going to represent a local train driver sacked by First Great Western at an Employment Tribunal … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Post: Lost and Found

Posted on June 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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The Friday night half-pissed post

Posted on June 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger was supposed to write the fourth and final part of his ‘Labour home care policy unveiled’ trilogy (yeah, yeah I know but I don’t know what you call a four-parter) tonight. However, what with a visit to the … Continue reading →

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Hot lesbo stat shocker!!!!

Posted on June 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

These WordPress blogs come with some quite nifty features including a variety of easily accessible stats about the blog. The Blogger can even find out what links on the blog have been clicked on. Usually this is fairly uninteresting. On … Continue reading →

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Hateworld… Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks

Posted on June 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. The Blogger’s cunning plan to spend the summer with his feet up, wired in to a load of Big Brother news feeds in order to regurgitate tabloid shite as thinly disguised critiques of … Continue reading →

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Hateworld

Posted on June 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

If you want to find The Blogger you could do worse than visit the Panache nightclub on All Saints Street where he might be spending time doing some in-depth research on an exciting new demographic discovered there by The Sunday … Continue reading →

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Rewriting history: Labour home care policy unveiled (part three)

Posted on June 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

First we had Helen Holland announcing her new “transparent” city council management culture. Then we had Peter Hammond announcing his secret uncosted non-plan for home care. Now Bristol Labour’s finance – ahem – expert, John Bees is getting in on … Continue reading →

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