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

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 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.

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".

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