His lengthy report – from in front of Buckingham Palace, in case we were in any doubt this was a royal story – was followed by one from Nick Higham, another of the BBC's top guys, examining what 24-hour news is contractually obliged to call "the implications".
The U.S. ambassador to Burma, Scot Marciel, called the implication that aid groups had supported ARSA "absurd". First called Harakah al-Yaqin, or Faith Movement, ARSA emerged last year after raids on police posts in October killed nine.
He speaks passionately about what he calls "the implication of the Specials as a reflection of multicultural London – what they were saying on songs like Ghost Town had a very powerful impact on me".
On Sunday, an ABC spokeswoman said Mr. Olson was hired for his "specialized knowledge and expertise in immunity agreements" and took issue with what she called the implication that ABC was paying for the interview.
Lord Mandelson calls the implication that a terrorist was released for commercial reasons "offensive", but it emerged this week that three British ministers have visited Libya in the past 15 months (as has Prince Andrew, Britain's special representative for trade and investment).
Nahid Mozaffari, a scholar and editor specializing in literature from Iran, called the implications staggering.
Michael Chertoff, a secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush, called the implications of the European court's ruling "very troubling".
In a statement, Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, said the company would oppose the order and resist efforts to provide a "back door" to the iPhone, and he called the implications of the government's demands "chilling".
Finally, it's worth thinking about what I'd call the strategic implications of Obama's first term — where it has left Democrats and their ability to protect and enact their priorities going forward.
Others needed to be tested experimentally by deducing which observable events should follow if the hypothesis were true (what Hempel called the test implications of the hypothesis), then conducting an experiment and observing whether or not the test implications occurred.
But in an overlooked 2012 speech, the then CIA director David Petraeus called the surveillance implications of the internet of things "transformational … particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft".
