Category Archives: Equalities

Progressive?

Posted on August 31, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Bristol Labour Party has now waded into the Cancer’s row over Bunter Eddy and the Big Lottery grant to Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (Each). Their Deputy Leader, Mark Bradshaw, published an open letter on the matter on Friday night. … Continue reading →

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Muslim balls

Posted on July 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Time to take a day off from the thrill ‘n’ spills of World Cup footBALLS and turn instead to another of this blog’s obsessions … Yes it’s Tuesday, which means our old friend Farooq Siddique has his ‘A Muslim in … Continue reading →

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Entertainment news

Posted on June 30, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Three weeks now and our old friend, Farooq Siddique, the Evening Cancer’s outspoken ‘A Muslim in Bristol‘ columnist is still keeping his counsel on what is surely the big Islamic issue of the day. Namely what’s going on Iran? Instead, … Continue reading →

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Shirley and the coconuts (legal mix)

Posted on June 27, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s been a fairly understandable level of uproar across the city since the city council published then unpublished and then republished its report (pdf) into Lib Dem councillor Shirley Marshall and her notorious ‘coconut’ slur (Blogger passim). The crux of … Continue reading →

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Shirley not?

Posted on March 3, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I hope local members of the teaching profession are making use of some of the excellent teaching materials designed by Bristol City Council’s Ethnic Minority Achievement Service (Emas4success) that make sure our kids are right up-to-speed and all tickety-boo with … Continue reading →

Posted in Abolition 200, Bristol, Education, Equalities, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics, Race | Tagged , | There are 6 comments

Let them eat cake!

Posted on March 3, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger
Posted in Abolition 200, Bristol, Equalities, Local government, Politics, Race | Tagged , , | There are 8 comments