** Dr.Logic [Sweat Box & Soap] WP 2000 3.1 **

** Dr.Logic [Sweat Box & Soap] WP 2000 3.1 ** Scoops, spin and the unexpected...By Andrew Marr BBC News political editor...

Five years? Can it really have been five years since I first stood with a feeling close to terror in front of a live news camera, one leg shaking with the tension, and began to spout?...

Marr: 'War will define the Blair era'

The weeks and months have passed like a fast-forwarded film, a whirl of crises, rainstorms in Downing Street, elections, resignations and laughter.
In that time I must have done more than 600 news packages - those short films, that each take hours to record, write and edit - and something like 2,500 live broadcasts, TV and radio pieces, never mind the rather less impressive BBC News website output (sorry 'bout that).
On the busiest days, it was sometimes a dozen or more acts of broadcasting, and in the most frantic period of all, the climax of general election campaigns, it meant working non-stop for 28 hours at a stretch.
It's meant instant judgements relayed to millions; interviews set up at a few minutes' notice; a constant scrabbling through official documents, wobbly shorthand notes, reference books and manifestos; scripts scribbled on my knee in desert military airbases or drizzly suburban car parks; and the periodic collapse of satellite links, camera batteries, computers and screens...