{"id":1318,"date":"2005-12-10T00:09:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T23:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/10\/bigots_friend_back_in_shadow_cabinet"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:28:05","slug":"bigots_friend_back_in_shadow_cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/10\/bigots_friend_back_in_shadow_cabinet","title":{"rendered":"Bigots&#8217; friend back in shadow cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting that Boris Johnson, the former editor of the <em>Spectator<\/em> who allowed the brazenly unbalanced analysis of the July bombings and French riots to appear on his watch <a title=\"BBC NEWS | Politics | Johnson given Tory frontbench job\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4514866.stm\">has been given a shadow cabinet post<\/a> by David Cameron.  On one hand, of course, this means the possibility of a better editor for the magazine and a possible rise in the quality of its output; on the other hand, Boris Johnson is not fit for either the Shadow Cabinet or the editorship of a major political magazine.  Notice that the BBC does not mention his biased and inflammatory coverage of a &quot;hot button&quot; issue, but rather what he and Petronella Wyatt did in their spare time.  Shame on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting that Boris Johnson, the former editor of the Spectator who allowed the brazenly unbalanced analysis of the July bombings and French riots to appear on his watch has been given&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tory_stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42685,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/42685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}