There was a wonderful letter in yesterdays Independent in support of Rupert Murdoch. Amongst other things, it said
 

He feeds over 54,000 families every day worldwide.
 

I don't think the writer (someone who "had the pleasure to work with Rupert Murdoch during my career in Australia and London") means that Rupe's the Father Christmas of soup runs, zooming from one time zone to another to reach the needy.

Plainly he's referring to the News International workforce - and my first thought was that it would be more accurate to say that every day 54,000 families worldwide feed him. But it did strike me as giving an insight into a conservative problem that people are finding hard to explain.