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Bristotalian of the week
Step forward Green Bristol Blogger, Chris Hutt … Despite the red trousered public school twit being out of the country prancing like a tit around Europe on his August Grand Tour, there’s no respite for Cancer readers from George Ferguson’s … Continue reading
World Cup footBALLS: parklife
Still wondering where this £100m in revenue the city council reckons can be made from hosting a World Cup is actually going to come from. We already know that all the big money from TV rights goes to FIFA, not … Continue reading
BANKSY BALLS: Gagged!
Was Friday’s synchronised pant wetting from Bristol City Council and the Evening Cancer over the Banksy exhibition quite what it seemed? The Blogger’s hyperbole-o-meter went through the roof when the Cancer gushed, “The world’s most famous living artist is coming … Continue reading
Posted in Banksy, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, CONsultants, Culture, Developments, Graffiti, Harbourside, Local government, Politics, Privatisation
Tagged Banksy Versus Bristol Museum, BMGAS, Bristol Museums, City Museum & Art Gallery, Galleries & Archives service, Kate Brindley, The Museum of Bristol
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Simon Caplan's slander watch: day 1
“Please can you stick to the issues and not hide behind your anonymity to slander employees at the council who are doing their best to communicate information to the public and playing their part in promoting road safety,” whines city … Continue reading
PR of the week
Step forward Bristol City Council’s Kate Hartas … As the only person in Bristol who’s seemingly oblivious to the longstanding antipathy between motorists and cyclists in the city, Kate was handed the job of spinning the council’s controversial plan to … Continue reading
Going … Going …
What a shame, HBOS is bankrupt (surely ‘well capitalised with a short-term funding problem‘? Ed.) and just as they’ve moved into their brand spanking new corporate HQ on what was Canons Marsh. Now, of course, thanks to Crest Nicholson’s corporate … Continue reading
EDF off
If you’re over 65 or over, then make sure you get yourself down to the EDF Energy Harbour Festival on Saturday and grab a front row seat for the immensely ordinary Beth Rowley and a host of other stuff you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Culture, Harbourside, Labour Party, Local government, Politics
Tagged EDF Energy Harbour Festival 2008
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History as bunk
A brilliant critique of the Museum of Bristol project and its embarrassing heritage-lite approach to the city’s history has appeared on the Festival of Ideas website. The piece, by ‘Tetchy Steve’, is a response to a talk at the festival … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Culture, Developments, Harbourside, Local government
Tagged Adrian Tinniswood, Festival of Ideas, Museum of Bristol
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Practical money wasting from overpaid woman
Looks like our city council’s brand new, top value £180k a year Chief Executive Jan Ormondroyd intends to hit the ground running when she starts work on Monday. The only trouble is that Jan gives the impression that she’s more … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, CONsultants, Harbourside, Local government, Privatisation
Tagged Capita, Jan Ormondroyd, Veredus
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CONsultants latest
The view of Bristol enjoyed by our new local CONsultants Another post on what seems to be this weeks’s emerging theme: the city council’s sell-out of Bristol to corporate CONsultants from London because the authority’s superannuated senior officer clique who … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, CONsultants, Culture, Developments, Harbourside, Local government
Tagged Event, Lab Architects, Museum of Bristol
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