I went along to see the political philosopher John Gray give a talk yesterday at the Watershed. It was a very illuminating talk with lots of interesting points. His main point is that regardless we admit it or not, many of us have an idea of political 'progress' as a cumulative thing. read full story / add a comment

UWE, Bristol is currently host to an interesting event about the psychology of climate change - as in why given the pressing nature of the issue, do we have such trouble adapting our behaviour? read full story / add a comment

You can see the beginning stages of a campaign by police to soften the public up for a repression of environmental protesters as campaigns around global warming hot up. As it looks possible for the government to push forward/allowing a number of massive carbon-white elephants, from locals schemes like the Bristol Ring Road or Bristol Airport Expansion to national projects like Heathrow or more coal fired power stations. read full story / add a comment

I was going to title this article 'Bread and Cabot Circuses' but the excellent Evening Post Watch website go there first. This is a key moment in the landscape of Bristol - remember this day - not for the opening of another unimaginative shopping centre - but the moment the free press overtook the corporate press as the real purveyors of news in the city. read full story / add a comment

I have been collecting images of local graffiti for a while now, inspired when I couple of images I really liked got pointed over! I guess that is in the nature of it, that graffiti is transient and changes. Indeed in St.Agnes park, I saw that one of the houses had the wall render removed so work could be done and what emerged - some old graffiti reading 'Stuff the Poll Tax'!! read full story / add a comment

It has been a long time coming - but come it always was going to...the housing bomb is bursting and the first major local casualty has been announced; Edward Ware Homes Ltd goes pop. read full story / add a comment

I have previously argued that debating with denailists was a point less exercise (the comments around which on Bristol Indymedia just went to prove my point) – and I am not the only one who thinks so.... read full story / add a comment

I have noticed huge debates breaking out on a couple of websites over global warming and the truth of it, I have also been spending (far too much) time of late reading about Creationism – the psudo-science idea pushed with a fanatical intensity by religious fundamentalists that the earth and all living things were created by god and thus evolution is not true. What has become increasingly obvious to me is that the denial of global warming and the denial of evolution are pretty much the same thing – a comfort-blanket against reality and so it is pointless debating with advocates of either point of view. read full story / add a comment

Passing though the Bear-Pit today, there was a remarkable view of that vision; a wild flower paradise in the centre of the concrete jungle! And it got me thinking... read full story / add a comment

Dawn is on the NEC, and the NEC are 'jointly and jointly and severally" responsible for the party's debt, while former party boss buys a £4 million pad. read full story / add a comment

5 years on, it is not over and we need to remember how we got into this mess. There needs to be a reckoning...

"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." –Vice President Dick Cheney, "Meet the Press," March 16, 2003 read full story / add a comment

You may have read in the news today some interesting news about houses and prices - really; "...the Yorkshire Dales national park authority is proposing to limit the number of outsiders buying second homes and retirement cottages in the 684 sq miles of the Dales. Under the scheme, which is set to be approved today by the authority's planning committee, virtually all new housing in the area will be reserved for rent or purchase by locals and outsiders taking existing jobs in the area. The restriction will also apply to new conversions of barns and other farm buildings." read full story / add a comment

Is drug policy held hostage to right-wing rants? read full story / add a comment

Trying to Have their Cake and Eat it - At Our Expense! read full story / add a comment

"The UK's largest defence firm, BAE made a pre-tax profit of £657m ($1.4bn), compared with £378m a year earlier." All thanks to the War of Terror! read full story / add a comment

Daily Mail and Trust, BBC and Virgin Media News read full story / add a comment

Notes from Ramona Africa's MOVE talk in Bristol on 2nd July. read full story / add a comment

"For the first time in 700 years the Knights Templar of Jerusalem will be holding an investiture service at St.Mary Redcliffe Church on Saturday 23rd June at 4.30pm. All welcome." read full story / add a comment

BAE and bribery – two linked words that seem to currently echo through the media. On google news its says there are 473 related articles to the story that will not die. read full story / add a comment

I have been looking at the Bristol Local Election results and I think the real story is the slow, but sure march of the Greens as a political force in Bristol, and this is driven by the change in the culture of the city towards ecological and sustainable issues. read full story / add a comment