Alan Partridge: My girlfriend's thirty-three. I'm forty-seven. She's fourteen years younger than me. Back of the net!

One popular foreign currency transaction scheme labelled 'burning money' made people instant quadrillionaires and trillionaires in Zimbabwean dollars.

He solved the problem of his word blindness by dictating his stories and columns to the copytakers that all newspapers once relied on (and who, as he correctly notes, would tend to undermine the favourite paragraphs of wordsmith reporters with the weary words: “Is there much more of this?”)

Those same philosophy articles then immediately serve notice that, for simplicity, they will discuss only belief.