Not only is the McLaughlin Group a weekly public affairs television programme, it's also a finite simple group of order 898,128,000. To prevent confusion, here are a few simple ways to tell the two apart. The television programme is a flimsy and ephemeral product of human civilisation which will not long endure in this universe. The finite simple group is a logical necessity inhabiting a timeless Platonic realm of abstraction and pure truth. The television programme predicts that Pope John Paul II will win a Nobel Peace Prize. The finite simple group takes no stand on the matter. The television programme contains only very pedestrian and boring subgroups, while the finite simple group contains the Mathieu group M22 as a maximal subgroup. The television programme is generated by John McLaughlin (as far as I can tell, no relation to the jazz artist of the same name), whereas a 22-dimensional representation of the finite group over the finite field F7 is generated by the matrices
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The McLaughlin Group, and the McLaughlin group. Do not confuse the two.