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Slightly paraphrasing a sentence from a John Finnemore sketch - the true source of all evil in the world seems to be, in the official opinion of the BBC, the BBC.

Once tried to set up a Mac to make it easier to use for a senior citizen. Dragged the Safari icon from the weird expanding bobby bit up to the desktop to make it more obvious. It disappeared. I then couldn't find out how to fix it because I couldn't find out how to start Safari without Safari.

"Is the Pope a Catholic?" - a rhetorical question in responding to a question whose answer is overwhelmingly and obviously "yes".

Trust Trump to answer a rhetorical question... and also to give the answer "no".

Whenever I see headlines containing "Top Trump officials" I keep imaging they'll be saying things like "No, for the turning circle of a car it's the LOWEST value that wins"

Even funnier is the notion that economics is a science

Teams used to be "invited to follow on" rather than have it "enforced". There's a certain tactical, passive aggressive Englishness in sending someone to the opposition dressing room to say "we'd like you to follow on, please".