David Miliband: the inside truth of an EU summit
October 19th, 2007
If anyone else has been waiting for the first really senior politician to come out as an excellent blogger, I think we can declare a winner with UK foreign secretary David Miliband:
Here’s what I didn’t know before attending my first European Council for Heads of Government and Foreign Ministers last night.
People smoke. Three on cigarettes, one cigar and one pipe. Everyone thanks everyone else for their excellent contribution even when they disagree. It seems to be ok to do a lot of texting and even to read a book. And a bit like a basketball match all the excitement is in the last five minutes when huddles of tired people stick to their guns or make compromises to get a solution.
There’s even a full-text RSS feed.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:19 am
[...] I wrote the other day about David Miliband being the first bona fide senior minister to really blog. It looks like Mike Leavitt, the US secretary for health and human services, beat him by about a month. His posts aren’t that “bloggy”, but they’re pretty good. He was interviewed yesterday on All Things Considered and confirmed that he wrote his posts himself, which I think does come across. [...]