" There was an eccentric editor of the Hansard, the official record of parliamentary debates in Britain. One day, goes the story, an angry member of Parliament stormed into the office of this editor, threw an open copy of the paper on the table, and said to him: “I never said that!” To which the editor replied quite calmly: “I know you didn’t, but you should have. "

― Chinua Achebe , The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays