'Twixt Cup and Lip

[steepholm]

It's the Freudian slip that just won't stop. First there was Jim Naughtie, then Andrew Marr - and now even Jeremy Paxman's famously-flexible tongue has stumbled. I think we must face the fact that this meme is now endemic amongst BBC journos. Is it any wonder I was reminded of the valedictory song from Not the Nine O'Clock News?? (Has it really been 29 years?)