A warm welcome to John Bercow, new Fellow of Birkbeck. Asked for the advice he would impart on new graduates, he urged them to "remember Churchill's motto: KBO - Keep Buggering On, at all times. There are two ingredients to success in life; inspiration, for which I mean talent; and perspiration, much underestimated, must underrated, much undervalued but at least as important. Insist on getting there in the end, because there’s every chance that you will. My most important message is a very simple one: persist, persist, persist.”