It wasn't a good night for Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman. Having interviewed the Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman, about the MPs' expenses scandal, he naturally wanted to recap the discussion for the programme's main headlines. Except he appeared to suffer catastrophic autocue failure and attempts to remember off the top of his head just didn't quite come off, 35 minutes and 30 seconds into last night's programe. "Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman told this programme... er, I don't exactly what she told us... er, that public support... we haven't got exactly what... we can't tell precisely what we are proposing to repeat of what she said, but it was very interesting". Don't worry Jeremy, we're pretty sure no one noticed. It's not the first time Paxo has suffered a technical glitch – he memorably had to interview a guest on a mobile phone after a live sound link failed, prompting him to moan that the programme had become a "complete shambles". Paging Norden... !
