Quotes from Eddie Mair

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.

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