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

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.

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".

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.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

If you’ve given your all, and it's still not working, it's likely time to move on.

And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

Coach (Pat) Riley told us on June 8 we'd win the title on June 20.