Morning update 14.09.15: Local councillors have their own mandate, says Theo
* Post-Corbyn win: Theo Blackwell says councillors have their own mandates
* John Mills pulls plug on Labour Party funding
* Ed Miliband: selfie magnet [READ ON]
BBC
The BBC report that the Tories will wish they could play on repeat
RUMOUR has it that Team Tulip is feeling a little hard done by after the BBC zoned a special report in on Hampstead and Kilburn, but went hard and long on a) the intrigue [READ ON]
FOI: ‘The new government has brought unprecedented cuts’… how Birmingham Council pitched bid to be on BBC’s The Choir
THE Choir: Sing While You’re Working is the feelgood thing on BBC2 where good salt Gareth Malone inspires the everyman to be the best they can be, and all that, by [READ ON]
Is your local authority spying on its staff’s emails?
PUBLICLY-FUNDED institutions have proved themselves to be pretty open if you ask them: Have you been spying on your employees’ emails? The BBC fessed up straightaway [READ ON]
Two-timer Glenda Jackson’s Desert Island Discs mystery
LISTENERS of Radio 4’s enduring Desert Island Discs are becoming fatigued over how the same guests keep popping up on the show, the Mail on Sunday reported yesterday. [READ ON]
Konnie Huq is still holding the torch
THE big list of torch bearers and route plans is out ahead of the London Olympics. If you didn’t get a ticket for the action – i.e. ALL OF YOU – then at least you [READ ON]
Spot the difference
ROUND 157 in the cuts blame game and Ed Davey at the BBC reports that Lambeth Council is in hot water with Pickles over bus stop posters telling locals that services will be [READ ON]
Ace On The Riverbank
…If you don’t want to know the result look away now. WHAT tension for a Friday evening. I spent six hours watching the same queue of police officers blocking a [READ ON]
OsboUrne alert
HE finds himself right at the elite of British politics, and still the great OSBOURNE conspiracy continues. Today’s, George Osborne renamers include the *never-wrong* [READ ON]
Election Live: Two minute warning
Live Blog: May 7/11.17am THANKS to the BBC for publicising my excitable tweets from the election count this morning. Hopefully some of the drama of the event came over in the [READ ON]
