This is odd. Overnight both the Sky News and ITV News websites have Keith Vaz stepping down as an MP as their second stories. In contrast, the BBC News website doesn't have the story among their headlines at all. Wonder what the thinking is there?
This isn't odd. The rise of national conservative VOX in Spain sees the BBC going into overdrive with the term "far-right" to describe them, whereas the fall of leftist Bolivian president Evo Morales over electoral fraud allegations sees the BBC curiously avoiding terms like 'socialist', 'left-wing' or 'far-left' to describe him.
Ah, what's in The Times this morning? Ah, here's Matt Chorley. (I do like Chorley cakes. Are they only a Northern thing?)
In addition to holding debates almost every Friday night, the BBC has gone full W1A (the sitcom that tries to spoof the unspoofable corporation). A press release announcing election plans confirms that Huw Edwards will take over from David Dimbleby, but also promises a podcast called Election and Chill, Radio 1 touring the country in the BBC’s “Travelling Living Room” (a campervan) and BBC Breakfast asking normal people what normal people think “over a morning cup of coffee from a specially converted BBC Breakfast Coffee Cart”. I think someone’s had enough coffee already.I should probably have less coffee. I might have been asleep now.
