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Sorry... don't have much time for a blog this week...I'm wall to wall with meetings in true ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ style. One is with the satirist Alistair Beaton, author of , The Trial of Tony Blair etc. His people called to say he has a new project for a satire on Scotland and wants to talk to me about politics here. I started to tell the woman on the phone about each year of my 40 years of reporting politics going back to the Wilson government and had only reached Devaluation when she put her hand over the phone and said:" God, this man is sooo boring". But I think she must have been talking about somebody else. Then, as I recalled how George Younger stood aside for Alec Douglas-Home in the Kinross by-election in 1963, she said:" I have to get on with the rest of my life now" and hung up. I think she was rushing off to tell her friends about me. Anyway I'm sure Alistair will set aside a few hours to listen to all my reminiscences.

Next it's a production meeting with Pauline the producer to discuss the Big Stories. The focus of the Murdoch saga has moved squarely on to David Cameron who really does look vulnerable. Just imagine what either Andy Coulson or Rebekah Brooks could say which could destroy the PM's current defences. In fact it may be that his whole future is now in the hands of two former tabloid hacks who themselves are growing increasingly desperate. Not a comfortable situation. We hear from James Cusick and Steve Hewlett.

Trevor Salmon and John Palmer lead us through the Greek debt crisis which is creeping this way whether we're in the Euro or not. One solution is deeper integration of a kind the original Common Marketeers favoured... in other words economic union not just currency union. The truth is of course that none of our countries is going to dig our way out of this debt morass without economic growth. Which brings us to . The economy in this non-EU land between Europe and Asia is booming at a terrifying rate and development is burgeoning. Why and will it last? We hear from Istanbul.

Our reporter Gillian is with the newspaper vendors of the world and, as yet another conference take place, this time celebrating the 300th anniversary of birth, we speak to someone who could almost be his modern-day equivalent - the historian, raconteur and Edinburgh bon viveur Michael Fry who as always is great value on anything to do with his native land. Now I have to get on. Meetings, meetings, meetings. Join me tomorrow at 8.