I am a great admirer of John Rentoul’s series of Questions to Which the Answer is No and recommend it to you without hesitation. Until today, however, I had not known of the inspiration for this splendid feature. Discovering that it all began with the Daily Mail is no great surprise and could anything really be more perfect than the question* that Rentoul picked to begin this valuable series:
There is, I submit, something almost heroic about this and the minds capable of producing such dizzying leaps of logic. It is magnificent.
*As is often the case, the online version isn’t quite as good.
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