Category Archives: Developments

Gordo makes it plane obvious

Posted on July 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Opponents of Bristol Airport expansion should take very careful note of at least one of Gordo’s appointments to his all-singing, all-dancing, all-inclusive new cabinet “of all the talents”. The appointment of former CBI Director Digby Jones as minister for trade … Continue reading →

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Urban beach news

Posted on June 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The more cynical readers among you are probably thinking it’s Friday night, The Blogger hasn’t got a story and so is about to use some paper-thin Bristol Urban Beach news nicked off the dead tree press as a pathetic excuse … Continue reading →

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Arena: Private profit from public cash

Posted on June 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Today’s Arena press conference saw the SWRDA and the city council responding with large cash handouts courtesy of the tax payer as the private developers involved in the Bristol Arena “partnership” predictably start to turn the screw on them. The … Continue reading →

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Spot the difference: new brutalism

Posted on June 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The proposed new flagship House of Fraser store proposed for Broadmead The National Theatre, South Bank Centre, London Eugene Street, Kingsdown, Bristol They (whoever they are) say that Brutalism is making a comeback, which is nice. Brutalist architecture was popular … Continue reading →

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Tofftastic Tories quash quangos in Bristol

Posted on June 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

I see ‘Ordinary’ Dave Cameron rolled into Bristol on Friday – with toff about town Michael Heseltine trailing in his wake – to deliver some set-piece waffle to his party unfaithful. Already flagged well in advance to the press, so … Continue reading →

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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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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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Sacrilege!

Posted on May 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Further proof, as if it’s needed, that this city is run by an unholy alliance of charlatans, philistines, bureaucratic retards and the plain demented. Last week the bastards demolished Radiant House, by far the best modernist building in the city … Continue reading →

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Waffleshed Latest

Posted on April 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

More phoney baloney emanating from the Watershed in the wake of its £6m government handout entirely for the benefit of the city’s wealthy, if underemployed, ‘creatives’. The world’s most pretentious cinema manager, Watershed boss Dick Penny, gushes to Maurice Fells … Continue reading →

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