Marr puts a new perspective on events and the leaders who shaped them. Critics may cry rose-tinted spectacles, bias, or spin doctoring born as a result of five years spent reporting for the BBC on a Labour government - but when he argues his case so eloquently, persuasively and resolutely, given his knowledge and authority on the subject, it is impossible not to see from his point of view. After all, he doesn’t have to change people’s minds on happenings that the British public (myself for the most part excluded) have lived through themselves.
Despite the times we find ourselves living in, Marr ends on a positive note with a short, succinct sentence that brought a little lump to my throat. Personally I feel that it should be on the reading syllabus for every political and history student in Britain. My only regret is that he did not write it five years ago when I became one.
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