On a cheerier note, though, Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC, questions the conventional wisdom that bond yields must head back up.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

Meanwhile, Labour MP Paul Flynn adopted a slightly more conventional approach, using questions on Twitter as a springboard for unleashing more strongly worded opinions.

BBC: Mixed results as MPs try outsourcing questions to Twitter

It joins other account-recovery features such as the ubiquitous "forgot my password" and security questions, as well as less conventional methods, like identifying friends' faces in pictures or recovering passwords via text message.

CNN: Mark Milian,

We in the KC-135 chewed over such questions as what it means to be at war not with a conventional enemy, but with a network of terrorist organizations and their state sponsors.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations