One of P. G. Wodehouse’s best quips concerned the “confusion of ideas” between A.B. Spottsworth and one of the lions he was hunting, which resulted in him making the obituary column. “He thought the lion was dead and the lion thought it wasn’t.”
A confusion of ideas explains Erin O’Toole’s problems with his party membership: He thought him saying “the climate change debate is over” made it so, and the grassroots thought it didn’t.
