Category Archives: Media

Competition time!

Posted on September 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Big prizes to be won: This is a small section of the council’s recent press release about the recommendations of the recent citizen’s jury on recycling. All you have to do is tell us what you think it it means. … Continue reading →

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Pass the sickbag: Writers’ Rooms

Posted on September 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

That Guardian Review column that never fails to disappoint… This week we meet Joshua Ferris, some tricksy New York-based novelist who has created a(n extremely) minor sensation with his debut novel, Then We Came to the End, that’s supposed to … Continue reading →

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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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EXCLUSIVE?

Posted on September 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a story from the front page of today’s Cancer – “The campaigning newspaper of the year” – marked in large red letters as an EXCLUSIVE: The next chief executive of Bristol City Council will be paid about £180,000 a … 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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Iranian HPI latest . . .

Posted on September 15, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – Iranian authorities have stepped up arrests of young people in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, as part of a nationwide “plan to eradicate corruption”. Dissidents charge that Tehran’s clerical rulers are … Continue reading →

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Banksy vs Snooty

Posted on September 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Bad day at the office for Bristol radical and controversialist, Banksy I’m afraid. The latest sighting of the great man’s work is on the top floor of the Millbank tower. The Tory press assure us that the trendy office suite … Continue reading →

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The real thing?

Posted on September 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s rumoured that Ordinary Dave’s hand-picked crew of Eton schoolmates over at Tory Party Central Office are planning a huge advertising campaign “to neutralise Labour claims that Mr Cameron has no substance and does not believe in anything.” Good idea … 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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Googledave

Posted on September 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

“Ordinary” Dave pretty much left no stone unturned in apportioning blame for the recent shooting of 11 year old Rhys Jones in Liverpool. The Daily Mail tells us: Mr Cameron blamed the rise in gang culture and yobbish behaviour on … Continue reading →

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