Very droll Julie Vickers. You're a fine judge - I'll nominate you for the Chaser script-writers' group (when they get out of gaol).

What an accolade - to be second-in-command to George W Bush. It doesn't get any better than that in the annals of statesmanship. If only John Winston Howsthat could have spoken in Manadarin he would have surpassed Robert Menzies on the league table and be pushing up behind Eisenhower (no triple entendre intended).

What a coup Apex has been. New deals everywhere - oil and wheat in Iraq, coal and t-shirts to China, uranium and vodka to Russia and imports of Canadian flags for security training.