You don't ask Linford Christie to run in a circle do you, so why should swimming be any different.

BBC: The untouchables

Today I think I discovered why the world is round, because all to often you find you have just come a full circle. no matter how far you travel sometimes you find yourself straight back where you started.

BBC: Coming Clean: An addict's diary

This may explain why the stand-in Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, seemed to be trying to square a circle when he said today in Prague that his technocratic government would take his demand for a footnote to the October summit only if they had a promise of no more funny business from the president.

ECONOMIST: European politics