Telegraph: Gaffe-prone Boris Johnson worries Tories
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"[David Cameron] is under no illusions that Mr Johnson, who is notoriously gaffe-prone, will need intensive media management."
Category Archives: localelections
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Exzentrischer Edelmann wird Bürgermeister von London
A Swiss paper has my favourite headline so far: "Eccentric Aristocrat becomes Mayor of London".
currybetdotnet; Can you trust going to a ‘Can you trust the media?’ event for a good debate?
Martin Belam: "For someone who mostly makes her living writing opinion pieces, [Yasmin Alibhai-Brown] skates on thin ice when she basically dismisses anyone else who writes self-taught opinion on the basis that they do it outside the old mainstream media
Google Maps Mania: Google Maps as an Election Predictor
"The BBC have created a map for the London Mayoral election which allows users to predict who they think will win."
Telegraph: London Mayor Election 2008: American free speech versus British election law
Toby Harnden: "In today’s London mayoral election it is a breach of the 1983 Representation of the People’s Act for the press to report anything about how voters have voted until the polls have closed."
Charlie Beckett: Reporting the elections: turn on, log on, join in – but not until after 10pm
"There’s an election on and all over England and Wales people are discussing who to vote for - but not on the BBC." At least not until after 10pm...
BBC News: The Editors: Turn on, log on, join in
Craig Oliver: "a new addition [to the BBC's election night coverage] is Emily Maitlis who'll be sifting the chatter online with the help of some of the UK's most committed political bloggers; Iain Dale, Luke Akehurst and Alix Mortimer."