Category Archives: Journalism

This is priceless

Posted on August 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Anyone following the Nick Cohen/Johann Hari spat across the internet at present? It started with the intensely irritating Independent columnist Hari writing an ill-judged review of Cohen’s book What’s Left? for the New York based Dissent magazine. Cohen has now … Continue reading →

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So farewell then… Richard Stott

Posted on July 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Former Mirror, People and Today editor Richard Stott died earlier today. He’s popular in these parts for his love of the scurrilous and thoroughly disreputable Bristolian that was published until a few years ago. Here’s what he said about the … Continue reading →

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So farewell then… Dumpster

Posted on July 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’ll probably come as no great surprise to many readers to learn that The Blogger was not a close acquaintance of the man we must now learn to call the ‘Former Former World’s Greatest Living Englishman’, Aussie gossip columnist Nigel … Continue reading →

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MoD's PR army

Posted on July 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Further proof – as if it’s really needed – that this country’s run by a class of self-perpetuating loonies was provided by the Sunday Telegraph today. The paper reports that the MoD has only just discovered that it has 1,000 … Continue reading →

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Pass the sickbag: Writer's Rooms

Posted on July 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

One of the joys Saturday’s Guardian is undoubtedly its Review section’s ‘Writer’s Rooms’ column, in which a painfully self-conscious metropolitan author describes, in scary detail, their study and working methods. Every week it’s like an extended Pseud’s Corner. This week … Continue reading →

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Bristol Blogger: stat porn

Posted on July 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

They said it couldn’t be done… “A blog? For Bristol? With news on it..? Written in your lunch hour and that spare half hour between Big Brother and Newsnight? That’ll never catch on…” Well I’m afraid it has. By 7.00pm … Continue reading →

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But soft! What rumour through yonder internet breaks?

Posted on July 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It is The Cancer, and Venue is the target… It’s fast turning into Venue week here at The Bristol Blogger. Here’s another one hot off the press. Yes, yes. This rumour circulates every couple of years doesn’t it? But this … Continue reading →

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Guarded

Posted on July 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A rather reticent article by Stephen Bates concerning our friend Howard Newby in yesterday’s People column of The Guardian: Sir Howard Newby is continuing his progress through the groves of academe like a ballbearing in a pinball machine, with the … Continue reading →

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That Venue application in full

Posted on July 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As promised – after hours of blood, sweat and tears… Here’s The Blogger’s plan for world domination: The blue sky out of the box usp vision thing bit… 1. Put it on the internet. 2. Put it on the internet. … Continue reading →

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Southville expects…

Posted on July 6, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Photo by Johnny Monroe The sense of nervous tension is palpable on the streets of Southville this Friday evening. The steady buzz of conspiratorial whispering from huddles of strange trousered bearded liberals on North Street fights for space with the mournful melodies of dated trip-hop tunes from bustling … Continue reading →

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