Category Archives: Media

Green balls

Posted on December 14, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Some daft survey conducted by “marketing specialists” CECI, has decided the greenest location in Britain is Redland closely followed by Clifton, a report in the very slow news pages of today’s Observer says. It’s not very clear how they worked … Continue reading →

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I'd like to thank my hairdresser …

Posted on December 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It came out of a clear blue sky didn’t it? Who’d have ever thought it? But there will be no boasting, smugness and gloating here at the Award Winning Bristol Blogger (please note the name change and adjust accordingly in … Continue reading →

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Tra-la-la, tra-la-la-la

Posted on December 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Maybe I’m going bananas … But my highly tuned, failsafe journalistic instincts are telling me there’s a big, big story looming on the horizon. What could possibly happen in the next few days?

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Muslim balls: Mumbai special

Posted on December 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Our dear old friend, Farooq Siddique, Cancer editor Mike Norton’s loopy ‘A Muslim in Bristol’ columnist is at it again. Tuesday’s column found the entirely sane and rational exponent of the religion of peace doing his bit for inter-faith dialogue … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged , | There are 21 comments

Local MP: People on benefits "lack social skills" and don't know "what is right or proper"

Posted on November 26, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour’s Bristol East MP, Kerry McCarthy, has been getting a bit of useful publicity from her slightly obscure attacks on the Jeremy Kyle Show made in Parliament yesterday. She has continued her old-fashioned Tory-style moral crusade on this less-than-urgent matter … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Bristol, Bristol East, Labour Party, Media, MPs, Politics, The British Left | Tagged , | There are 38 comments

Bye by George?

Posted on November 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

What’s happened to By George, George Ferguson’s saturday column of self-regarding drivel in the Evening Cancer? It was there last week and this week it’s gone! Surely it can’t have anything to do with Councillor Ashley Fox tabling a series … Continue reading →

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Sam Mason: lest we forget

Posted on November 11, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

With all this fuss about the local radio presenter, now seems a good time to rerun an old Bristolian of the Week item from summer 2007: Sean – The radio phone-in king Sean’s recent exchange with BBC Radio Bristol’s Sam … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: PR news

Posted on November 6, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The Evening Cancer might not be prepared to report on their columnist, George Ferguson’s role in dodgy public park land deals but they’re more than happy to give his poncey Tobacco Factory bar some free publicity. “George flies the flag … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Developments, Elections, Local government, Media, Merchant Venturers, Southville | Tagged , , , | There are 8 comments

All the news that's fit to print?

Posted on November 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of the Evening Cancer publishing anything about the David Bishop Greenbank land sale scandal. No doubt the fact that their Saturday columnist, Bristol’s most pompous man, George Ferguson is intimately involved in the scandal is entirely coincidental … Continue reading →

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Simon Caplan’s slander watch: day 2

Posted on October 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Alas no word – as yet – from Simon Caplan. Although it looks like he’s been rather busy elsewhere these past few days surreptiously altering official public records in the form of city council press releases. Is that allowed? Maybe … Continue reading →

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