Frank Field: Labour MP who was a reformer, thinker and maverick bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Obituary: Sir Bernard Ingham bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Sir David Butler, pioneering election analyst, dies aged 98 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

A note, with John Curtice What UK Thinks: EU, on the methodology for the BBC's local elections Projected National Share of the vote (PNS), and how it may differ from Rallings and Thrasher's National Equivalent Vote (NEV):
electionsetc.com/2022/05/04/und…

Obituary: Former Argentine President Carlos Menem bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat…

Obituary: Captain Sir Tom Moore, a hero who gave a nation hope bbc.co.uk/news/uk-527261…

Obituary: Pierre Cardin bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Nice about Anglesey. Think it has had unchanged boundaries since before records began in the 1500s

Obituary: Jan Morris, a poet of time, place and self - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

If Hillary Clinton had won Florida in 2016 (or even been a tad closer to doing so), we would all having been waiting this long then. All eyes would have been on recounts in WI and MI. It’s actually surprising this doesn’t happen regularly.

I was Frank Bough’s producer for a while at LBC radio in the early 90s. He couldn’t have been more supportive of a young colleague. Enormously encouraging and unfailingly patient with mistakes. RIP.

Obituary: Juliette Gréco dies aged 93 bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Obituary: Christo Javacheff, the artist who wrapped the world bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Obituary: Little Richard, a flamboyant pioneer bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Sorry to be picky. But I think it was the actual result that framed the coverage.

I confess. Am bang to rights. But in the heat of the moment the outcome of the election looked like a decent story and we ran with it.

The BBC’s general election coverage in numbers. 🤓

#GE2019 #BBCElection

Of the programmes I’ve been part of:
1. Portillo (1997)
2. Obama speech (2008)
3. Exit Poll (2015)
4. Exit Poll (2017)
5. Trump win (2016)
6. ‘The British people have spoken’ (2016)
7. Ashdown’s hat (2015)
8. Brown quits (2010)
9. SNP surge (2015)
10. Pound tumbles (2016)

Here comes the Exit Poll! These are some of the ballot boxes for the #ge2019 #exitpoll for BBC News (UK) ITV News and Sky News. Watch out for interviewers in natty Hi-vis jackets like this one ;)