Category Archives: Race

Whitewash? The new blog on the block

Posted on November 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The latest blog to appear in Bristol is Bristol 2007’s Weblog. This appears to have been set up to look at the legacy left by the city’s controversial Abolition 200 events this year. The city council’s Abolition 200 Steering Group, … Continue reading →

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Notting Hill's radical history

Posted on October 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s been light posting this weekend as The Blogger has been laying out Tom Vague’s excellent Bash the Rich Radical History Tour of Notting Hill pamphlet. It’s a kind of riotous, left wing, pop cultural, psychogeographic ramble through the streets … Continue reading →

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U-turning and u-turning in the widening mire

Posted on October 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

There’s been an update on the Avon & Somerset site and in The Cancer on the carnival night killing of 35-year-old Somalian, Mohamoud Muse Hassan who was stabbed to death at The Criterion pub in Ashley Road, St Pauls (Blogger … Continue reading →

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Housing: Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted on October 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Compare and contrast: Bristol Evening Cancer Friday 5 October 2007 “I’ve got a friend who has three children living in a one-bedroom council flat. She’s been waiting for a new property for months but can only watch as more Somali’s … Continue reading →

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Tory toenail worshippers refuse to publically back their slave trading boy

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

They can’t get down to All Saints on Corn Street quick enough on a wet and windy October morning to worship the remnants of the great man’s toenails. But it seems Bristol’s Edward Colston loving Tories aren’t quite so keen … Continue reading →

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Dead strange

Posted on September 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Avon & Somerset’s story of the murder on carnival night in St Pauls isn’t adding up. It’s been widely reported now that a 35-year-old local Somalian man, Mohamoud Muse Hassan, was stabbed to death in the early hours of Sunday … Continue reading →

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Working classes not racist shocker!!!

Posted on September 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

by Keren Suchecki I get really fed up with the sneering attitude of ‘serious’ media commentators over Big Brother every year. Low brow it may be, harbinger of the apocalypse it is not. You’ve got to admire this programme’s honesty … Continue reading →

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The great Arnolfini cover-up

Posted on August 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A local art gallery is set to disappear behind a controversial temporary art installation. The temporary artworks – partly funded by the city council – would cover the walls of a gallery on Narrow Quay dedicated to contemporary art. Called … Continue reading →

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Jesse and the jews

Posted on August 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Clueless equalities communities bore, Labour Social Services supremo Peter Hammond is at it again. News that Jesse Jackson is visiting the city has got Bristol’s Mr Diversity almost wetting his pants with joy at the thought of someone black, American … Continue reading →

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