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BBC London take Gold in clip-finding

August 19th, 2008 3 Comments

A gold medal for whoever found the clip of Tim Parker saying this to BBC London on the Politics Show on 13 July:
I’m here to get the job done. You won’t find me disappearing over the hill in a couple of months.

He was right, of course – it’s only been one month.
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BBC London coverage now on YouTube

June 21st, 2008 1 Comment

Thanks to a kind reader by the name of Wireman, who grabbed the BBC London video stream as a video file and sent it over to me, I have now been able to put the BBC London gaffe coverage from Thursday on YouTube. If you haven’t seen it yet, have a look now:

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Answer to my previous post: Very

June 20th, 2008 2 Comments

I’ve just had confirmation that the BBC London "Are you sure?" footage was from Tuesday, after the issue had appeared in the Guardian that morning and been rumbling around the blogosphere for two days, and indeed a day after Boris’s own office had put out a press release ostensibly offering his views on the matter. [...]

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Quite how breathtaking was Boris’s ignorance of the Rise situation?

June 20th, 2008 3 Comments

One last point on this evening’s surprising story.
I was just pondering exactly when the BBC London footage of Boris not knowing anything about the whole axed anti-racism business was filmed.
The story first broke on Dave Hill’s blog at lunchtime on Sunday, snowballing through various other blogs and media enquiries and so forth, with the news [...]

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Boris on BBC London tomorrow evening

June 5th, 2008 11 Comments

Boris will be putting in an appearance on BBC London tomorrow evening, Friday 6 June, at 6.30pm on BBC One.
They’re soliciting questions for the presenter to put to Boris: e-mail yours to yourlondon@bbc.co.uk now!
And if you need any inspiration, Dave Hill’s list’s not a bad starting point.
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