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

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

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".

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.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Just because you don't know how to do stand-up doesn't mean you don't know how to put on a show.

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.