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Anton Savage: Nailing an interview is a tricky science, as Boris Johnson will tell you

The pitfalls of on-air interviewing include technical hiccups, brain farts, and being turned into a meme afterwards

Anton Savage: ‘The brain fart takes many forms. The worst being when adrenalin entirely wipes the brain clean of vital information’

Broadcasters salivate at the prospect of nailing politicians to the floor. Normally that’s a metaphor. It took Boris Johnson to make it literal.

According to LBC presenter Nick Ferrari, the station had to screw the former prime minister’s chair to the floor so that he could not do what they came to call ‘the Boris Bolt.’ During his tenure as mayor of London he was so conscious of social media and the use of clips ...