Since Rupert Murdoch famously bet the farm on Premier League football to rescue Sky TV in 1991, it has been the catnip that has underpinned subscriber loyalty and, even in a far more complicated media landscape, is seen as so vital as to be worth almost any price.

The others will return at night, … pushing their experiments and nudging their projects toward completion in small, painful increments.

In other words, it may be important in a parent meeting to report the fact that their child was on task 30% of the time observed, while the comparison student was on task 85% of the time observed.

W.C. Bergmann was supplementing his meager lamplighter's income by bobtailing… picking up laundry and cleaning in his horse drawn truck...