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Saturday, 24 September 2016

BBC Election Train

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The  BBC Election Train  rolled across various BBC platforms last week. It travelled the northern United States and pulled in at variou...

Compassion

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Today's From Our Own Correspondent began with Lyse Doucet recounting a story you've probably heard about before, especially ...

The Gawd'elpusfather

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Don Corbeone  On the subject of the all-conquering Mr Corbyn... This week's Newswatch followed last week's Feedback in ...

The Labour leadership paradox

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Zeno's Paradox: Illustrating the Labour leadership contest, and why Owen Smith (left) could never beat Jeremy Corbyn (right) In b...

To mark the occasion...

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Historic events today call for a classic Corbyn joke  (which the BBC's Laura K is free to make use of on Twitter should she so cho...

MISERRIMUS!

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Nowadays, whenever I listen to  Poetry Please  on Radio 4 I can't help thinking of the (recently-much-maligned) comedian Jake Yapp...

More on Brexit Street

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Still catching up.... Here's something I partly 'grabbed' while on holiday (whilst obviously not being on holiday enough...
Friday, 23 September 2016

Grammar schools and the BBC

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(h/t Andrew) Can you spot Theresa May in this old grammar school photo? There's a new BBC News website report by Hannah Ri...
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"Alas, it didn’t make the final cut"

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Talking about the Spectator , there's also a piece by Freddy Gray on "being a media Catholic", which ends with a reveali...
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Ian Katz in 'The Spectator'

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Newsnight  editor Ian Katz has a Brexit-related piece in this week's Spectator .  In it he speculates that the language used t...
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Hatchet JO'B

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'Repetition!', as they cry on Just a Minute... Well, if Gyles Brandreth is going to accuse me of 'Repetition!' for pos...
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Thursday, 22 September 2016

Make the BBC great again

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Forgive me for thinking the latest Bake-off resignation and non-resignation were predictable. I could have told you that Paul Hollywood wou...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Labour welcomes everybody (but some are less welcome than others)

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The Today Programme featured a report from Orla Geurin speaking to troops in Iraq - some of them English - fighting Daesh alongside Kurdish...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

Nick meets Jez

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The 8.10 spot on this morning's Toda y was given over to a Nick Robinson report from a pro-Jeremy Corbyn rally at the weekend.  ...
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Sorry if we unintentionally intimidated anyone

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Chatting with an acquaintance the other day about a bunch of rogues known vaguely to both of us, he suddenly described one dubious characte...
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It's the way he tells 'em

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I seem to recall (though I can't find it now) once writing something about a Twitter feed which regularly posts spoof Jeremy Cor...
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Jonathan Dimbleby talks Brexit

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Jnr Listeners to the BBC World Service - and overnight Radio 4 - might have heard a World Questions  discussion on Brexit a couple ...
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