Two Damazers

There are now clearly two Mark Damazers.

Many are familiar with the old one. A big brain at the BBC, communicating at speed with a high proportion of words over three syllables, fond of the abstruse phrase, and de facto creator of a tv production language known as "Damazer".  Donnish number 2 at BBC News, professorial Controller of Radio 4, and now Master of an Oxford University College.

Then there's the emerging Mark "Mr Angry" Damazer.  Quick to choler and opine, if only for the Evening Standard at this stage.  Reading level more Littlejohn than PhD (though that difficult word "sanguine" does make an appearance).  The sub may have written the bald headline "David Beckham is not fit to wear a Spurs shirt", but, on reading the whole piece, that's where Mark stands, or sits, bare-chested, just in front of the executive boxes.  God knows what he'll do if Beckham actually plays; best hide the fire extinguishers.