Romans Ran Europe Better Than EU Does [9min @1:00]

Boris Johnson, historian, journalist, and British Conservative MP and Shadow Minister for Higher Education, joins a 45min roundtable discussion on the weather, the Gaia hypothesis, and the eradication of terrorism, and discusses why the Romans were so successful at running a united empire of up to 100 million people, when, as he puts it, we in the European Union can't even agree on a plug for our toasters... The Dream of Rome is published by HarperCollins and there is also a 2-part series on BBC 2, starting on Sunday 29 January at 8.00pm."Start the Week" sets the cultural agenda every Monday. Guests are drawn from the top movers and shakers in politics, history, science and the arts. Host Andrew Marr also welcomes Tom fort, fishing correspondent for The Financial Times; James Lovelock, the independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who coined the term"Gaia hypothesis"; and Scilla Elworthy, director of the Oxford Research Group.