Peter Hoskin at Coffee House has noted that today is the tenth anniversary of Peter Mandelson's first resignation from the Cabinet.
It is a political event that I remember well, since I was on Christmas vacation from my final year at the University of York and was spending the break doing work experience at the BBC's political research unit (where I eventually worked for four years after graduating).
It was a Wednesday afternoon and as is normal in any office at this time of year, many people had taken leave either side of Christmas to give themselves a decent chunk of time off.
So when the news broke halfway through that afternoon that both Mandelson and Geoffrey Robinson were resigning from the Government over the secret £373,000 the latter had loaned the former, all hell broke loose - not least because there was only me and one full-time member of staff left in the office.
It was a real "in at the deep end moment" where the two of us had to very quickly get on top of all the background to the story and produce a briefing which within minutes was more or less being read word for word by the presenters live on BBC News 24.
Here's how the BBC website reported the story that day.
Who'd have thought then that he'd be back in the Cabinet now - in the same job - albeit having gone in and out of the Cabinet again in the meantime, not to mention a four-year stint in Brussels as European Commissioner...
