Category Archives: The Centre

City of green syphilis

Posted on November 20, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

by Keren Suchecki Bristol has been named the only UK city short-listed for the European Green Capital award – news met with utter incredulity by most residents. Bristol used its much-waved parks and green spaces strategy to bolster its bid. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Environment, European Green Capital Award, Global warming, Local government, Politics, Recycling, Temple Meads, The Centre, Transport | Tagged , , | There are 17 comments

BBC: ain't life brand?

Posted on September 22, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

What’s this we find on the BBC Bristol website, with its own special link given pride of place on their homepage? Why, it’s only the completely independent, uncommercial and objective blog of Sue Stones, the manager of the new Harvey … Continue reading →

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Bikewash

Posted on July 26, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

We’ve had whitewash; we’ve had greenwash; now – courtesy of Bristol’s Cycling Demonstration City initiative – is it time for bikewash? One of the few actual promises we’ve had to accompany the Cycling Demonstration City money the city’s just got … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Cycling Demonstration City, Environment, Local government, Politics, The Centre, Transport | Tagged , , , , | There are 14 comments

Anarcho traffic management: is it the future?

Posted on January 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Let’s face it, all this talk of European cities, culture capitals, green capitals and the rest is just so much PR hot air and feel-good marketing soundbites from our councillors. They’re all just props to make it sound like they’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Congestion charge, CONsultants, Local government, The Centre, Transport | Tagged , , , | There are 14 comments

Transport round-up

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Minister of State for being an unpalatable shade of orange, Peter Vain, was in town yesterday making one of his stupid, posh foghorn-voiced announcements. And what tremendous news he brings! Yet another Labour government subsidy, no less, for Bristol’s most … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Environment, Global warming, Local government, The Centre, Transport | Tagged , | There are 7 comments

Choose the ineffective, low-cost PR option day

Posted on October 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Fancy that! The latest supporter of the mindless and ineffective ‘Choose Day’ Christian eco-scam is none other than Mark Bradshaw, Labour’s Transport exec. He tells The Cancer: “Choose Day will help to make Bristol a leading city in addressing th[e] … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Environment, Global warming, Labour Party, Local government, Merchant Venturers, The Centre, Transport | Tagged , , | There are 9 comments

Who the hell are Choose Day?

Posted on October 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Blogger’s been receiving various communications, on a fairly regular basis now, about some environmental/global warming event called ‘Choose Day’ launching on the Centre this coming Tuesday. Full details about the event, if not the organisation behind it, are available … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Environment, Global warming, Merchant Venturers, SWRDA, The Centre | Tagged , , | There are 14 comments

Instant History! (Just add radicals)

Posted on August 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The 1831 Bristol riot from Brandon Hill These skateboarders learn fast. Yesterday some of them attended Bristol Radical History Group’s 175th anniversary celebration of the Great Reform Dinner ruck of 1832 on Brandon Hill. Today they’re proclaiming from the pages … Continue reading →

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If hyperbole could save the planet…

Posted on May 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Then the confused hippies on bikes over on Bristol Indymedia would be in business. “State terror comes to the streets of Bristol!”, “We are being cohersed (sic) into a police state!”, they scream after a combination of cops and commuters … Continue reading →

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Sacrilege!

Posted on May 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Further proof, as if it’s needed, that this city is run by an unholy alliance of charlatans, philistines, bureaucratic retards and the plain demented. Last week the bastards demolished Radiant House, by far the best modernist building in the city … Continue reading →

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