Tag: commentator

Starting My Next Adventure – I’m Off To Moscow and The Eurovision Song Contest

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This Tuesday, I left a rather cryptic message on Twitter: I have in my hand a piece of paper from the Russian Consulate. Now very happy. That piece of paper was my Russian Business Visa. It joins a number of other ‘pieces of paper,’ including return tickets on British Midland from Edinburgh to Moscow; a reservation for a central Moscow hotel, a guide to the Moscow metro and specifically how to get to the Olimpiyski Stadium, and full press accreditation for a certain music event… I’m going to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest!!! Naturally I’ll be bring coverage from Russia

BBC Election Coverage, Now With Political Bloggers

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Sitting up catching the start of the Results Coverage of the Local Council and London Mayoral elections on the BBC, and I have to say congratulations to whoever decided that inviting three of the UK Political Bloggers into the ‘secondary’ studio would be a good idea, because it is. Those representing ‘us’ are… Iain Dale, Conservative (http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/) Luke Akehurst, Labour (http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/) Alix Mortimer, LibDem (http://fabulousblueporcupine.wordpress.com/) While the main studio is the usual BBC holdout of Dimbley, three politicians, the political correspondent and the academic, over at City Hall the bloggers are being regarded as full commentators, rather than a sideshow