Disappointingly, the debate about the possible return of grammar schools has detracted attention away from this key lesson, and no amount of statistical jiggery-pokery can mask such an elementary shortcoming.
Maintaining data transmission in freefall also took some jiggery-pokery, including a makeshift wireless antenna boosted by an adapted wok and specialist equipment for the freefallers.
But they aren't allegations about corporate malfeasance, about financial wrongdoings, about the jiggery-pokery of people that nobody trusts or wants in place.
Luckily there were a few frames of him with outstretched arms, which has now become the standard regeneration pose - and with a little jiggery-pokery that became the cover.
