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Armchair Experts

A man sits in an armchair. A woman stands. A dog is on the floor. The man says, 'I'm moving my armchair expertise from epidemiology to nuclear powered naval submarines.'

Though the pandemic dominated the news cycle for much of the year, the federal government’s decision to buy nuclear submarines (instead of the diesel-powered ones already on order) took many people by surprise. As Matt Golding points out, the announcement created a whole new field to become ‘expert’ in.