Category Archives: Journalism

This is England (and Scotland and Wales)

Posted on September 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

If you wanted to suggest a simple core principle underpinning the UK and its politics at the start of the 21st Century, you could do worse than propose something along the lines of the Voltaireian: “I might disagree with what … Continue reading →

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Litigious Russian oligarch alert!

Posted on September 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who’s trying to buy Arsenal Football Club, is currently using London lawyers Schillngs to prevent bloggers revealing unsavoury facts about his behaviour and background. Bloggers who’ve been pulled off the web over the last 24 hours include … Continue reading →

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Writers’ Rooms

Posted on September 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Guardian Review column that never fails to disappoint… This week a genuine giant. A giant of pomposity and pretension that is. Today poet Seamus Heaney revealed all about his study and we learned that even these people’s old planks … Continue reading →

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On the web this week

Posted on September 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s an excellent piece by Fat man on a keyboard responding to John Pilger’s call for a boycott of Israel in the New Statesman in particular and the “pro-Palestinian left” in general. The Palestine/Israel conflict is not easily reducible to … Continue reading →

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Fisk this!

Posted on August 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

I was reading The Independent by mistake on Saturday and came across an article by their, um, “controversial” Middle East Correspondent Robert Fisk saying he was “increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11. Has Fisk finally … Continue reading →

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North Bristol NHS spin shocker

Posted on August 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Nice to see North Bristol NHS Trust spending taxpayers money on blatant political spin for New Labour. This dossier compiled by the Tories of hospitals at risk of downsizing includes Frenchay Hospital’s A&E Department which, as has been well-publicised, is … Continue reading →

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Climate Camp: ha, ha, Hari

Posted on August 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

So who’s the one reporter invited by the organisers to Heathrow’s increasingly farcical Camp for Climate Change and given free rein to wander around and do what he likes while other journalists must have a “media savvy” climate camper escort … Continue reading →

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Long live the climate camp! The main event of the 21st century and the beginning of the worldwide historic turn of humanity away from capitalism

Posted on August 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The thing that’s really struck me about this Climate Camp at Heathrow is the paranoia and control freakery around the press. As The Guardian’s Helen Pidd says: “For a gathering founded on anarchist principles, the Camp for Climate Action doesn’t … Continue reading →

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A towering example

Posted on August 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The television event of the summer finishes tonight with the last episode of Anthony Wonke’s eight part documentary, The Tower, at 10.35pm on BBC 1. If you haven’t seen any of this so far, watch it while you can. The … Continue reading →

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Pass the sickbag: Writers' Rooms

Posted on August 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This week’s toe curling effort in The Guardian Review’s regular Pseuds Corner slot, ‘Writers’ Rooms’, comes from pretentious old fart, Picasso biographer John Richardson. The upper class twit says: “I loathed school, but the advantage of going to Stowe was … Continue reading →

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