“Can’t they be about… sorry… we… er… eh… no no no no… it’s just so obvious I can’t be bothered…
“You don’t have to want to return to a barter system in the stoneage to complain about the way the financial crisis affected large numbers of people in the world, do you? Even if you’re having a cup of coffee and you’ve got a tent!”
— Ian Hislop responding to Louise Mensch on Have I Got News For You, 23/10/2011