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And as the most-British-ever tennis player wins Wimbledon for Britain again...

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At least the BBC has chosen not to lead its News website with the anti-Brexit march in London. Sky, on the other hand, is leading with it:

The obvious thing to say about this march has already been said by General Boles on Twitter (from a couple of hours ago): 

Unless there are 18 million people on #marchforeurope they'd have been better off staying in bed.

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Incidentally, the Twitter feed of Anbarasan Ethirajan, the BBC's South Asia analyst (featured in the previous post) is typical of many BBC Twitter feeds. It proudly bears the BBC's name and says "RTs are not endorsements".

Scroll through his public tweets both before and since June 23 regarding the Brexit vote and you'll see that Anbarasan has RT-ed (or - more accurately - linked to) anti-Brexit piece after anti-Brexit, mostly from the Guardian and the New York Times (many linking racism with the Brexit vote).

"RTs are not endorsements"? Really, Anbarasan?

newspapers and Is Norman Smith the BBC's "main pro-May, kill-Gove voice"?newspapers

Charles Moore on the BBC's Norman Smith:

I don't know if that's fair or not, as I've not caught Norman Smith's reporting in the past couple of days or so, but Norm's Twitter feed (which he uses as an important part of his BBC reporting) does show quite a striking difference in treatment between Mrs. May and Mr. Gove.

Compare and contrast and see what you think:

About Theresa May:

About Michael Gove:

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From Twitter:

newspapers and Unusual things on 'Marr', and that 'Sunday Express' lead story about Turkey and the EUnewspapers

This morning's Andrew Marr programme did a couple of unusual things during its paper review: 

The clip mentioned in the second tweet there was of Boris a few years back saying that Turkey should be let into the EU and that it's not right that they should be excluded, especially just because they are Muslims.

Both of those things did happen and both of them are unusual. 

Somewhat more usual, however, was Andrew Marr doing a spot of impromptu editorialising and describing the Sunday Express's take on the possibility of huge numbers of Turks moving through the EU to the UK as "much more extreme".

That same headline really isn't getting 'a good press' from the BBC today. Roger Johnson on BBC Breakfast earlier felt the need to add "Of course Turkey is some way to joining the EU yet" after reading it out, and BBC Middle East correspondent Quentin Somerville gave it the full BBC Twitter treatment (albeit pithily), echoing the head of CAABU: