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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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