Category Archives: FOI

Turning the tables on the surveillance society: can we find out what they've been looking at on the internet?

Posted on December 20, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Chris Hutt draws our attention to an “interesting” Freedom of Information request. So can it be done? Can we find out what the great, the good, the powerful – the people that run our lives – are doing on the … Continue reading →

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Council officers plot to give land to Lansdown on the cheap

Posted on October 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

While Cabinet member Gary Hopkins continues to live in his own little make believe world where he thinks he’s in power and can make promises about the Ashton Gate land sale like “we will … get best value for Bristol … Continue reading →

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Netiquette: take care before pressing that 'Send' button …

Posted on October 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Or your private email message may end up all over the internet: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gagging_orders_in_secret_family_177#incoming-49653 Ho! Ho! Ho!

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BLACK (cloud) WATCH: council cash news

Posted on August 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A speedy reply to Woodsy’s Freedom of Information request to Bristol City Council regarding their expenditure on Victoria Park’s temporary roofless shed, ‘The Black Cloud‘, arrives on the ever-dependable ‘What Do They Know?‘ site and finds the council crunching urgently … Continue reading →

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Regal news: presidential edition

Posted on May 14, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

News is emerging that to accompany her rather grand regal move into the expensive purple carpeted environs of her “strategic leadership” suite on the third floor of the Counts Louse, Bristol City Council Chief Exec Jan Ormondroyd originally had something … Continue reading →

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Court circular #4

Posted on May 12, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Thanks to reader Overayard, we have some more news on the latest ludicrous private sector CONsultant to board the Counts Louse gravy train, Mark Fletcher. Fletcher is a senior partner at the fashionable (ie. expensive) PR and communications agency ‘Reputation’. … Continue reading →

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Regal news

Posted on April 26, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Up there in her high security, “No Plebs Allowed” Eagle’s Nest on the top floor of the Counts Louse, we learn that City Council Chief Exec, Bum Disease Ormondroyd, has been doing a bit of shopping with our money in … Continue reading →

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Howzat!! Bristol Labour Party caught taking orders from cricket club toffs and House of Lords lobbyists

Posted on February 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Gruesome truth about school places in North Bristol: what you won’t be reading in the Evening Cancer … by lilly manilly Whatever happened to that new school at Ashley Down? They spent enough money on the feasibility studies and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bishopston, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol West, CONsultants, Developments, Education, FOI, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | There are 15 comments

One law for them

Posted on December 9, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like Bristol City Council have discovered a whole new means of stopping ordinary people from finding out what they’re really up to by, er … simply breaking the law! The Blogger reported last week that Heather Tomlinson’s retarded … Continue reading →

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Completely illegal Bristol City Council try-on of the week

Posted on November 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Comes, not unsurprisingly, from Heather Tomlinson’s intellectually vacuous education department. Local Campaigners trying to save the extremely good and popular Sefton Park School from congenital school wrecker, Peter Hammond’s factory-style expansion plans have recently resorted to using the Freedom of … Continue reading →

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