Interviewed this afternoon by Andrei Marr, formerly editor of scandal-sheet The Independent - which I like to pronounce in the French manner: "Andy Pandy".

Marr is now a standup comedian for the BBC, electronic mouthpiece of the former British Empire. He's recently also become the whisky correspondent of glossy magazine e-Squire, the post-Bubble, high-tech, wi-fu journal for the connected gentry.

I ask him why he has dropped the hairstyle he favoured when he was lead guitarist with The Smiths. He laughs and suggests that a good theme song for my World Tour would be his old fave Heaven Knows I'm Portable Now.

I like this guy's style! What a trouper.