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The mayor’s air quality progress, as told to the world and an NHS doctor – 2019
The above is a link to the entire Full Council meeting. The following link is for the 10 minutes that Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees aggressively responds to an NHS doctor about her request for him to help save lives. A petition was brought to Full Council by a doctors Ellen Wood and Victoria Stanford. Dr…
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Review: Toy Story 4 — spoilers
** Spoilers ahoy for both Toy Story 4 and Remains of the Day — Look away now ** The Toy Story 4 plot is a mixture of Remains of the Day and the Empty Nest Syndrome. The story begins with a flashback to nine years previously when Woody has to choose between protecting…
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Knitting Politics: a method — TBC —
The picture of C.D.N.-N.D.G. Mayor Sue Montgomery, the borough mayor of Montreal knitting her way through a council meeting has now gone viral. She knits in red when men speak and in green when women speak. Her knitting is tapered and starts narrow but gets quite wide. I’ve read since her initial tweet that the…
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Secrecy, the Western Harbour, transport, and billions in development
The Local Plan is currently open to the public for consultation: At the Central Library the previous week, a young man, looking all suited and polished and very approachable, stood in front of a Local Plan display board. I went over to take a look. I told him I was interested in seeing the part…
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The 20 Worst Polluted Places in Bristol
The 20 worst polluted places in Bristol 2017 The 20 worst polluted places in Bristol 2017 NO2 µg/m3 (2017 annual average) % above legal limit 1 Parson St. A38 East 67 67% 2 Ashley Road St. Pauls 65 63% 3 Colston Avenue (The Centre) 63 58% 4 Anchor Road 62 54% 5…
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Bristol City Councillor attendance and absence
On the 24th of October 2018, I queried councillor attendance at meetings they were expected to attend. The data is at the following link and I have queried from the beginning of 2015 until October 2018. Only currently active councillors have any data attached to them. Note that reasons for not being in attendance can…
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New book by Darren Allen, 33 Myths of the System
The cover looks as if the ground and nature have opened up and slowly produced a book out of the leaves and petals and stamen and poetry. If Walt Whitman had drawn Leaves of Grass, I imagine it would look like Darren Allen’s cover to the 33 Myths of the System. Maybe without the pause…
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Let’s have city sanctuaries instead of city farms
City farms were introduced in the 1980s so that children could see where their food came from, a friend was recently telling me as she munched on her bacon sandwich. As an Australian living in the UK, I like this view of the world as ‘other’ as something I can observe and not have it…
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Renewal coming up for litter police that only fine smokers in central ward
90% of all fines issued by Kingdom are issued in Central ward. The private company that is cost neutral to the council was brought in as part of the mayor’s clean streets initiative. Picking up litter costs the city £6 million a year, according to the council. What Kingdom say: They were brought in “as…
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If Cats Disappeared From The World, Genki Kawamura
There’s a sparse and young, almost delicate sense to Genki Kawamura’s writing that cheered me up no end even though this was a book about death. The lightness to life and what we hold too close is really what this book is about. Kawamura is 39 and is now the author of three books; If…
Ephemeral digest 