Mark Mardell
6,378 posts
Former BBC R4 presenter, North America Editor, Europe Editor, Chief Political correspondent. Now Ronin, freelance writer and broadcaster.
- Incredibly flattered, thrilled and generally overwhelmed by all the appreciative messages. Thanks So, last world this weekend #tw2 (or Tdubz to really close friends) tomorrow as I leave the BBC. Immensely proud of the programme, sad to leave my friends a brilliant & lovely team.
- the proud winners of the British Press Guild podcast of the year award @moversand6 @ruskin147 @JeremyPaxman @gillianlaceysolymar @nickmostyn @paulmayhewarcher @nickhilton #parkinsons #parkycharter
- At Mandela's cell in Robben Island earlier this year Obama wrote "no shackles or cell can match the strength of the human spirit"
- @moversand6 are off to Downing Street @ruskin147 @JeremyPaxman @nickmostyn @gilliansolymar @paulmayhewarcher will be clutching our #parkycharter on Thursday -we've got 17K+ signatures, help us get at least 20K moversandshakerspodcast.com
00:00 - Excited to be back on Broadcasting House @bbcpaddy with @ruskin147 talking about our new Parkinson's podcast "Movers & Shakers" @moversand6 -some time after 9 am on BBC R4
- And I'm thrilled to be spending today, World Parkinson's Day, helping unveil the spanking new Parkinson Centre for Integrated Therapy in Canterbury. It's a hugely ambitious project aiming facebook.com/groups/1467805… kent.ac.uk/parkinsonsToday is #WorldParkinsonsDay and I will start banging on about it on @BBCLondonNews at 0750. Also a good day to subscribe to this fabulous podcast. Jeremy Paxman says it’s #%^*ing brilliant podfollow.com/1677410087facebook.comMovers & Shakers | FacebookWith a wry smile we call ourselves the ‘Movers and Shakers’. For we six have two things in common: interesting careers in the public eye and a diagnosis...
- What happened when @moverand6 went to Downing Street @ruskin147 @CureParkinsonsT @ParkinsonsUK @paulmayhewarcher @JeremyPaxman @nickmostyn @gillanlaceysolmar hear what Paxman wants to ask @RishiSunak
- Its not just the fragility of Rishi’s appeal that has been laid bare but the shallow judgment of many tory MPs and some pol corrs. Time and Brexit has stripped out talent & depth and it shows.
- Not the final version -but we're getting aggy ! @moversand6 @CureParkinsonsT @ParkinsonsEU @ParkinsonsUK #Parkinsons
- “For better, for worse” this week we bring our partners along and it is an extraordinary episode : there are tears and laughter and a degree of frankness that is quite humbling. and their reaction to adversity.
- Jewish Socialist Group "Accusations of antisemitism are currently being weaponised to attack the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party"
- I am genuinely staggered by the mess in Brussels - how can the Government NOT have squared the DUP ? How did they fail to predict DUP reax to "regulatory convergence' ? Someone please explain
- First & only clap of the night as Leanne Wood tells Farage he should be ashamed of himself for raising HIV 'health tourism' #leadersdebate







