Archive for June, 2011

A shorter version of this appeared in Venue a couple of weeks back, but didn’t go onto the website. Thought I might give it another airing here just to show I’ve not fogotten this here blog altogether … Want to feel you’re the slimmest and best-looking person in the room? Yes? Well, you don’t need […]


I’m old and grumpy enuff to remember the last time a Conservative government tried to kick-start some enterprise in Bristol. It wasn’t all bad. We got a nice bit of road out of it which is handy if you’re trying to get from north Bristol to Bath. But the Bristol Development Corporation (as was) didn’t […]