Mark Mardell is quietly shaping up to become one of the Beeb’s most impressive bloggers. Possibly because he has less TV demands on his journalistic output. Check this one out about the changing nature of the proposed European Treaty, depending upon who is looking at it.
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Mark’s blog is something else, very descriptive and snappy with great use of novel-like langauge that brings alive the ins and out of European politics with understandable clarity.
As to ‘possibly because he has less TV demands on his journalistic output’ – c’mon Mick give the guy credit.
But one wonders what he would have made of the Good Friday Agreement or is that the Belfast Agreement or the British Irish Agreement or the Stormont Agreement.
Oh heck maybe things are actually easier in Europe.