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Category Archives: Local government
Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: business
Business: Wear a new suit and work in local government for 20 years spending huge quantities of other people’s money and you are an expert at business. See also marketing.
Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: holistic approach
Holistic Approach: Exactly the same as the usual hopeless Bristol City Council approach except the officers involved wear jeans.
Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: meeting
Meeting: Kind of ritualised, aimless mass non-exercise conducted by groups of city council officers on a twice daily basis in order that they can have a cup of tea and use up some time either side of lunch. See also … 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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Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: the great and good
The great and good: Those invited to the first night of the Banksy exhibtion – if you weren’t invited you weren’t great and thus you can’t be any good. To be good you must have money or a degree in … Continue reading
Glossary of Bristol City Council terms: Councillors
Councillors: A form of decorative finishing unique to Bristol’s Council House. See also Politicians.
The Blogger’s Dictionary of Bristol Political Terms
by A Reader “Bradshawing” Basic, simplistic and ineffective political spin in which you attempt to blame the opposition for the consequences of your own policies through endless repetition. As in: “the Labour leadership are Bradshawing the Tories over public sector … Continue reading
Quote of the week: BANKSY BALLS special
Cancer editor Mike Norton says in today’s paper: I was dragged around [Bristol] museum more times than I care to remember. The building and its artifacts are now part of my psyche. My dad loved the place. This explains a … Continue reading
Posted in Banksy, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Culture, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics
Tagged Mike Norton, Simon Cook, The Observer, Tim Adams
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The Blogger's Dictionary of Bristol Political Terms
by A Reader “The Popham Method” A cunning encoding system designed to convert plain text into undecipherable gobbledegook. Sir Winston Churchill is quoted as saying "Bletchley Park did OK, but Enigma was child-plays really. If the Nazi's had used The … Continue reading
It's Red Trousers wot won it!
Confirmation – as if we really needed it – that Red Trousered architect, George Ferguson, is an utterly deluded egomaniac and public school twit of the very highest order. Wondering who was the – ahem – architect of the Lib … Continue reading