Back to the past

Good grief, this week's Dateline London panel had a real 'throwback-to-the-bad-old-days-of-Dateline' feel to it. 

There was left-leaning Polly Toynbee of the Guardian, left-leaning French-Algerian writer (who usually writes in the UK for the Observer and Independent), very-left-leaning Greek expert Maria Margaronis (who writes in the UK mostly for the Guardian)....and Bloomberg's mildly liberal (in American terms) Stryker McGuire.

They discussed Greece and the euro and ISIS and its fellow travellers, with largely predictable results.