Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?

I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.

well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

To stay youthful, stay useful.

No one masters the heart.

I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."

Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.