Category Archives: Middle class wankers

New for the New Year … Meet The Spongers!

Posted on January 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Spongers will be a new and irregular feature on The Bristol Blogger for 2009. (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name)

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"Bloody foreign onions, coming over here, taking our shelves …"

Posted on December 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

“I, for one, wasn’t put on this earth to make life easy for British farmers, who are a reactionary and misanthropic lot as a rule – gaily destroying wildlife, backing blood sports, feeding animals the remains of their relatives and … Continue reading →

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Banksy Balls: it's a new one!

Posted on October 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Photo from Jam Factory Prepare yourselves for some skin-crawlingly embarrassing outbursts of chattering class pant-wetting over the next few days because a new Banksy has been ‘discovered’ on Park Row. Within hours the young ‘n’ edgy end of the local … Continue reading →

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Organo-bollox

Posted on September 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

With the Organic Food Festival – run by the toffs of the Soil Association – in town for the weekend, you can rely on The Evening Cancer to be talking a lot of old bollocks about it. No surprise then … Continue reading →

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Light posting today

Posted on September 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger is off to the Organic Food Festival to hear Camilla Barnard’s fascinating talk ‘Wake up to the benefits of an organic breakfast’. Then look out for our own impromptu talk: ‘Why posh, privately educated snobs called Camilla should … Continue reading →

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Praise be! It's another one

Posted on August 31, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As the city council quietly plots to deprive the sick and elderly of their free “Lifeline” emergency alarms (Blogger passim) to save a few quid, we can at least rest assured that they’ll have no problem spinning the excuses for … Continue reading →

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Told you so…

Posted on July 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

OK, OK. Admittedly a little later than expected; it’s here. The Guardian’s ‘Let’s move to…’ column this week features Southville. It’s here in all its glory. And quite amusing it is too. Sample: Those priced out of [Clifton’s] lofty neighbour … Continue reading →

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Let's vomit over…

Posted on June 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Final proof – as if it was needed – that Southville has now been entirely overrun by the worst kind of Guardian reading nanny state liberal arrives on The Blogger’s desk. The place where these kind of smug, self-interested, publicly … Continue reading →

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Class in the classroom

Posted on June 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Labour’s new education boss, Derek Pickup, has broken cover and given a keynote interview to The Evening Cancer’s so-called Education Correspondent Linda Tanner. Tanner is happy to play pat ball with Pickup, lobbing him daft brown-nosing questions to provide him … Continue reading →

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How our beach has been turned into a desert…

Posted on June 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Only officially announced last week in a fanfare of publicity, Bristol’s Urban Beach already has more than a hint of fiasco about it. Reputed to be costing £200k, the beach at Redcliffe was supposed to open on 30 June and … Continue reading →

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