tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259264469805451832024-03-05T11:24:14.954+00:00Rose of ArdenOur day to day adventures and occasional days of boredom on the canals and rivers of England and Wales. Plus the jaundiced view on life in general as observed from the deck of our boat!Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.comBlogger2511125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-48823301537508771122021-02-13T23:43:00.002+00:002023-03-01T12:01:01.417+00:00A Guide To political and Social Media Terms:<p> </p><div data-contents="true"><h1 class="oo9gr5id o0t2es00 knj5qynh n851cfcs" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bobuq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bobuq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bobuq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">A Guide To Political and Social Media Terms:</span></span></div></h1><blockquote class="h2mp5456 mk2mc5f4 peup4ujy m9osqain jq4qci2q cxmmr5t8 hcukyx3x sej5wr8e jei6r52m hv4rvrfc dati1w0a" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5b36s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5b36s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5b36s-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">If you are not politically savvy, when reading postings, some words or terms used, can be quite odd and appear to be out of context. I thought it would be useful to have a lexicon of social media political terms.</span></span></div></blockquote><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="agpmd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="agpmd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agpmd-0-0"><span data-text="true">This list is hosted on </span></span><span data-offset-key="agpmd-0-1" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Real Red Flag (a Facebook Forum) </span></span><span data-offset-key="agpmd-0-2"><span data-text="true">and is periodically updated. If you share or have shared this posting, from </span></span><span data-offset-key="agpmd-0-3" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Real Red Flag</span></span><span data-offset-key="agpmd-0-4"><span data-text="true"> forum, it should automatically update the 'original' share.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="agpmd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agpmd-0-4"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fgje9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fgje9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fgje9-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Caveat Emptor</span></span><span data-offset-key="fgje9-0-1"><span data-text="true">: However, if you share a share rather than sharing the original, it might not update. (depending on the vagaries of Facebook on the day of updating.)</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a7luk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a7luk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a7luk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><h1 class="oo9gr5id o0t2es00 knj5qynh n851cfcs" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8d8s7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8d8s7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8d8s7-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Political Jargon:</span></span></div></h1><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="92d9r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="92d9r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="92d9r-0-0"><span data-text="true">The words and phrases oft used by political commentators, politicians, journalists, lobbyists, media, trolls, keyboard warriors and other people, especially on social media, when they talk about political issues.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7kl7p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7kl7p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7kl7p-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dd083-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dd083-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dd083-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Covidiot: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1ofj2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ofj2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ofj2-0-0"><span data-text="true">A popular alternative name for Donald Trump, which has now been inherited by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ck2m2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ck2m2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ck2m2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="53t8k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="53t8k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="53t8k-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Schadenfreude:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="r9rj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="r9rj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="r9rj-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3lprp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3lprp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3lprp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2p8ih-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2p8ih-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2p8ih-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Lawfare - Vexatious Litigation:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2rqlr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2rqlr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2rqlr-0-0"><span data-text="true">When the law is used to bankrupt a person through court costs.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1aev-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1aev-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1aev-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="1aev-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought solely to harass or financially subdue an adversary. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4gj72-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4gj72-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4gj72-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c2suh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c2suh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c2suh-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Jigsaw Identification:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="agurj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="agurj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agurj-0-0"><span data-text="true">The ability to identify someone by using two or more different pieces of information from two or more sources - especially when the person's identity is meant to be secret for legal reasons.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="13q8o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="13q8o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="13q8o-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="etrsb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="etrsb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="etrsb-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Noblesse Oblige:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c5mlt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c5mlt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c5mlt-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a French expression (often confused with Latin) used in English meaning that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and requires the person who holds such a status to fulfil their social responsibilities.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3snh3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3snh3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3snh3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dt7en-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dt7en-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dt7en-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Irony:</span></span><span data-offset-key="dt7en-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fl7lb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fl7lb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fl7lb-0-0"><span data-text="true">When, a situation is funny because it happened in a way that seems the opposite of what you expected.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3uln3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3uln3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3uln3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="21apu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="21apu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="21apu-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Hegemony: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5sm2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5sm2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5sm2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the power of one nation or group over other nations or groups. This means a hegemon may not actually take control of other nations but has the power to greatly influence what they do.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6dbfu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6dbfu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6dbfu-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="6dbfu-0-1"><span data-text="true"> The disproportional influence of Israel over other nations around the world.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7caek-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7caek-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7caek-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="131io-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="131io-0-0"><span data-offset-key="131io-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Fifth Column:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="44lna-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="44lna-0-0"><span data-offset-key="44lna-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favour of an enemy or nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="44lna-0-0"><span data-offset-key="44lna-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4da0g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4da0g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4da0g-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="4da0g-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Prime Minister Theresa May demanded full details of Priti Patel's staggering 12 unauthorised, clandestine meetings during a 13-day “</span></span><span data-offset-key="4da0g-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">holiday</span></span><span data-offset-key="4da0g-0-3"><span data-text="true">” in August. Including meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu the Israeli prime minister.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fk9t6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fk9t6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fk9t6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="83uop-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="83uop-0-0"><span data-offset-key="83uop-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Legend:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1rljj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1rljj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1rljj-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a false identity that is created for an individual who is working undercover for the state.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="69ip2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="69ip2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="69ip2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="clbjg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="clbjg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="clbjg-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Perfidious Albion:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8ujin-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ujin-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ujin-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a derogatory phrase, used in Europe, to describe Great Britain’s reputation for bad faith and reneging on agreements. Furthermore, to back up accusations of outright treachery in her diplomacy and treaty-making. It refers to acts of diplomatic duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity, with respect to promises made to, or alliances formed with, other nation-states.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ujin-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ujin-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ujin-0-0"><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="b7e8t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b7e8t-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="b7e8t-0-0"><span data-text="true">Cancel Culture: </span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="656tm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="656tm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="656tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a modern form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles. Either online on social media, in the real world, or both. The expression "cancel culture" has mostly negative connotations and is commonly used in debates on free speech and censorship.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="vtpm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="vtpm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="vtpm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="4gv1c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4gv1c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4gv1c-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i><b>Example:</b></i> "The great myth about cancel culture, however, is that it exists only on the left. For the past 40 years, right-wing newspapers have ceaselessly fought to delegitimise and ultimately cancel our national broadcaster, motivated by financial as well as political ambitions." David Olusoga.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="5fr8j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5fr8j-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="5fr8j-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="2cjhl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2cjhl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2cjhl-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i><b>Head Wobble:</b></i> </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="96m3r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="96m3r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="96m3r-0-0"><span data-text="true">Give your head a wobble is said when somebody has done, said or observed something stupid, and thinks the person should reconsider this stupid or unbelievable thing.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="9on67-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9on67-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9on67-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="8gan-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8gan-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8gan-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i><b>Example:</b></i> The US President suggests doctors should look into injecting bleach or disinfectant into patients with Covid19. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="c16mo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c16mo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c16mo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="46agr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="46agr-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="46agr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Blacklisting:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="cu2nb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cu2nb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cu2nb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist of people, to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="34o60-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="34o60-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="34o60-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="6vv52-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6vv52-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="6vv52-0-0"><span data-text="true">Enemy Of The People:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="hvce-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hvce-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hvce-0-0"><span data-text="true">A designation for the political opponents of the social class in power. The term implies that by opposing the ruling class, the "enemies" in question are acting against society as a whole. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="4hcjt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4hcjt-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="4hcjt-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="8jiuc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8jiuc-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="8jiuc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Political Correctness:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="7li14-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7li14-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7li14-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offence or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. Generally used as a pejorative implying that these policies are excessive or unwarranted.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="bfnpk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bfnpk-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="bfnpk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="7gmdn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7gmdn-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="7gmdn-0-0"><span data-text="true">Deplatforming:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="2rekj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2rekj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2rekj-0-0"><span data-text="true">ls, a form of political activism by an individual, group, or organisation. With the goal of shutting down speakers from expressing their opinion.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="5cf0n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5cf0n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5cf0n-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="687bs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="687bs-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="687bs-0-0"><span data-text="true">Freedom of speech:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="hkt9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hkt9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hkt9-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="4cenh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4cenh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4cenh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="5rj3i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5rj3i-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="5rj3i-0-0"><span data-text="true">Freedom of Expression:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="er9hi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="er9hi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="er9hi-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is usually used in a legal sense, and includes any activity of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="2mh0i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2mh0i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2mh0i-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="19q71-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19q71-0-0"><span data-offset-key="19q71-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i><b>Example:</b></i> Article 19 of the UDHR states that "<i>everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference" and "everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.</i>"</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="5ktam-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ktam-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5ktam-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="5vnhq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5vnhq-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="5vnhq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Politicization: </span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="csib8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="csib8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="csib8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Refers to the tendency for facts to go from being seen as objective and seemingly outside of politics to being a part of a political culture war for discussion.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="86qt1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="86qt1-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="86qt1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="cm7ve-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cm7ve-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="cm7ve-0-0"><span data-text="true">Social Exclusion:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="77cap-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="77cap-0-0"><span data-offset-key="77cap-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the process in which individuals are denied full access to various rights, opportunities and resources that are available to members of a different group.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="b167-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b167-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b167-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="er5g1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="er5g1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="er5g1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i>Example:</i> Housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and the law. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="3gvd3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3gvd3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3gvd3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="en0ek-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en0ek-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="en0ek-0-0"><span data-text="true">Presumption Of Guilt:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="ae1ik-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ae1ik-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ae1ik-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a false flag presumption within the criminal justice system that a person is guilty of a crime until proven to be innocent.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="ds4sb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ds4sb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ds4sb-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="2v1uc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2v1uc-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="2v1uc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Internet Vigilantism:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="cpptb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cpptb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cpptb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the act of carrying out clandestine vigilante activities through social media and the Internet. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="d34i5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d34i5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d34i5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="ec3b1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ec3b1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ec3b1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i><b>Example:</b></i> Social media has enabled vigilantes to attack people they consider to be corrupt. Even if they have not committed a crime or been held accountable by the criminal justice system. There are many internet vigilante groups as well as individuals. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="d5004-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d5004-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="d5004-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="am03k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="am03k-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="am03k-0-0"><span data-text="true">Thoughtcrime:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="451ib-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="451ib-0-0"><span data-offset-key="451ib-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a word coined by George Orwell in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty Four. It describes a person's politically unorthodox thoughts, such as unspoken beliefs and doubts that contradict the tenets of English Socialism, the dominant ideology of Oceania. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="8o8cc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o8cc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8o8cc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="d46kc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d46kc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d46kc-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b><i>Example:</i></b> In usage, the word thoughtcrime describes beliefs that are contrary to accepted norms of society.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="79rkt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="79rkt-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="79rkt-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="3d2ve-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3d2ve-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="3d2ve-0-0"><span data-text="true">Persona Non Grata (Latin):</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="765ar-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="765ar-0-0"><span data-offset-key="765ar-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a status sometimes applied by a host country to foreign diplomats to remove their protection by diplomatic immunity from arrest and other normal kinds of prosecution. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="febqf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="febqf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="febqf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="dq66a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dq66a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dq66a-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i><b>Example</b></i>: In non-diplomatic usage, referring to someone as persona non grata is to say that the person is not popular or accepted by others in a group.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="asr9b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="asr9b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="asr9b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="3735s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3735s-0-0"><i><b><span data-offset-key="3735s-0-0"><span data-text="true">Social Justice Warrior:</span></span></b></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="7lfp1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7lfp1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7lfp1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="frgvh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frgvh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="frgvh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="slt2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="slt2-0-0"><i><span data-offset-key="slt2-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b>Online Shaming:</b></span></span></i></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4f6k6" data-offset-key="9t568-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9t568-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9t568-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a form of public revenge in which targets are publicly humiliated on social media platforms. Online shaming takes many forms, including call-outs, cancel culture, doxing and revenge porn.</span></span></div></div><span data-offset-key="8ujin-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e9v3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e9v3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e9v3-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a61ln-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a61ln-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a61ln-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8el8j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8el8j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8el8j-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Propaganda:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1m2j4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1m2j4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1m2j4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Information, ideas, rumours and lies that are deliberately spread to harm a person, group, movement, institution or nation.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1m2j4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1m2j4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9sjqv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9sjqv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9sjqv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="9sjqv-0-1"><span data-text="true"> The deliberate spreading of false or fake information, by a person, organisation or movement.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e0tgo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e0tgo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0tgo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="30lij-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="30lij-0-0"><span data-offset-key="30lij-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Misinformation: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dgfma-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dgfma-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dgfma-0-0"><span data-text="true">News or information that is spread, without any intention to mislead.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4rnom-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4rnom-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4rnom-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8cdmk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8cdmk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8cdmk-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Disinformation:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2h9dg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2h9dg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2h9dg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Deliberately, false often faked information which is intended to mislead. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="57rgc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="57rgc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="57rgc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="57rgc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="57rgc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="57rgc-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Source of information leaked to the media, or used by the media for political propaganda purposes. Propaganda issued by a government.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8c95b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8c95b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8c95b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="14g7i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="14g7i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="14g7i-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Cognitive Dissonance: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6k93d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6k93d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6k93d-0-0"><span data-text="true">Causes feelings of unease, tension and discomfort when rejecting new information that conflicts with existing beliefs.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="33p77-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="33p77-0-0"><span data-offset-key="33p77-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="85t95-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="85t95-0-0"><span data-offset-key="85t95-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Volte-Face:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="chdnl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="chdnl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="chdnl-0-0"><span data-text="true">An abrupt and complete reversal of attitude, political opinion or position.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2j7da-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2j7da-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2j7da-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="48qlv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48qlv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="48qlv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Leaked Information:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6tsiu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6tsiu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6tsiu-0-0"><span data-text="true">When confidential information is revealed to unauthorized persons or parties.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6tsiu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6tsiu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bc3db-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bc3db-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bc3db-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="bc3db-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Reporters often refer to leaked information given to them by secretive sources.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6pjbn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6pjbn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6pjbn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ah6hh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ah6hh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ah6hh-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sock-puppet:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dq295-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dq295-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dq295-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term, is a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dq295-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dq295-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8atv2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8atv2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8atv2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="8atv2-0-1"><span data-text="true"> When a false identity is assumed by a member of an online political community. Who then write to, or about, themselves while pretending to be another person.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="168ft-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="168ft-0-0"><span data-offset-key="168ft-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="35bab-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="35bab-0-0"><span data-offset-key="35bab-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Quockerwodger: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cd01m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cd01m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cd01m-0-0"><span data-text="true">A puppet-like individual whose strings of action are pulled by someone else.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6lfrv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6lfrv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6lfrv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="da5ke-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="da5ke-0-0"><span data-offset-key="da5ke-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Astroturf:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8rnd4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rnd4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8rnd4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organisation to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rnd4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8rnd4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b7d70-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b7d70-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b7d70-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="b7d70-0-1"><span data-text="true"> The term is derived from AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to resemble natural grass, as a play on the word "grassroots". The implication behind the use of the term is that instead of a "true" or "natural" grassroots effort behind the activity in question, there is a "fake" or "artificial" appearance of support.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8t0g4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8t0g4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8t0g4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="egoua-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="egoua-0-0"><span data-offset-key="egoua-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Shill:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2fg04-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2fg04-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2fg04-0-0"><span data-text="true">An accomplice of a political confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine person to entice or encourage others:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="48ron-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48ron-0-0"><span data-offset-key="48ron-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3iu5l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3iu5l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3iu5l-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Rogue Reporter:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="52jmo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52jmo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="52jmo-0-0"><span data-text="true">When stories are made up by Journalists and Reporters for propaganda purposes. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7onhf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7onhf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7onhf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bk52h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bk52h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bk52h-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Snake Oil:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d41f3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d41f3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d41f3-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a euphemism for deceptive marketing and reporting. It refers to the "snake oil" that used to be sold as a cure-all elixir for health problems.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d41f3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d41f3-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="991bi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="991bi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="991bi-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="991bi-0-1"><span data-text="true"> The reporter was behaving like a tawdry snake oil salesman. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c2v4g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c2v4g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c2v4g-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6piii-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6piii-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6piii-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Quid-pro-quo:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ds4k0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ds4k0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ds4k0-0-0"><span data-text="true">There is nothing inherently illegal in giving or receiving something in exchange for something else, but in legal contexts quid pro quo often refers to something that is in fact illegal.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ds4k0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ds4k0-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bttfr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bttfr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bttfr-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="bttfr-0-1"><span data-text="true">Quid-pro-quo was frequently mentioned during the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump, in reference to the charge that his request for an investigation of Hunter Biden was a precondition for the delivery of congressionally authorised military aid during a call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2fnma-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2fnma-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2fnma-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="go6g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="go6g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="go6g-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Quelle Surprise:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7uul2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7uul2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7uul2-0-0"><span data-text="true">A French phrase that means "what a surprise." Often said and used sarcastically.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="febnf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="febnf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="febnf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="292c8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="292c8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="292c8-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bad Actor:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="50o0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="50o0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="50o0-0-0"><span data-text="true">An unruly, turbulent, or contentious individual. A mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person. A person or organisation is responsible for actions that are harmful, illegal, or morally wrong.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9mi72-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9mi72-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9mi72-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2imk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2imk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2imk-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Counter-Culture Movement:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2iruq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2iruq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2iruq-0-0"><span data-text="true">A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eba74-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eba74-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eba74-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eu6og-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eu6og-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eu6og-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Mixed Messages:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bvths-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bvths-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bvths-0-0"><span data-text="true">When a person is receiving bits of information that seem to contradict each other. Creating, confusion, anger and a complete breakdown of trust.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1t9i6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1t9i6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1t9i6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c794j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c794j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c794j-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Raison D'etre:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5lj6v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5lj6v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5lj6v-0-0"><span data-text="true">A reason for being. Rationalisation - the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason. The purpose that justifies a thing's existence. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="alujo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="alujo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="alujo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8ad9k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ad9k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ad9k-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Agent Provocateur:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ap6i0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ap6i0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ap6i0-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person employed to induce others to break the law so that they can be convicted.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4jcbv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4jcbv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4jcbv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="27feg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="27feg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="27feg-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sealioning - Sea-Lioning:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fj4gh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fj4gh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fj4gh-0-0"><span data-text="true">A type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretence of civility and sincerity. It may take the form of "</span></span><span data-offset-key="fj4gh-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">childish name calling or incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate</span></span><span data-offset-key="fj4gh-0-2"><span data-text="true">".</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ahs3n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ahs3n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ahs3n-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dm290-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dm290-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dm290-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Diktat:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dalsn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dalsn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dalsn-0-0"><span data-text="true">A harsh, punitive settlement or decree imposed unilaterally on a defeated nation or political party.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dalsn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dalsn-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5v808-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5v808-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5v808-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="5v808-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Sir Keir Starmer issues a Labour Party diktat that Labour Party CLP's are not allowed talk about the treatment of labour Party member Jeremy Corbyn. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1cunv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1cunv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1cunv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8gvbc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8gvbc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8gvbc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Political Omertà:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c2q7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c2q7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c2q7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a code of silence and places importance on maintaining silence in the face of questioning by party members, authorities or outsiders.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c2q7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c2q7-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="67vq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="67vq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="67vq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="67vq-0-1"><span data-text="true">Wilfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal or questionable activities of others.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="668gm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="668gm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="668gm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7ragj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ragj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ragj-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Democracy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cmupa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cmupa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cmupa-0-0"><span data-text="true">Government by the people, a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9rn2e-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9rn2e-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9rn2e-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2n9j4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2n9j4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2n9j4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bipartisan:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9fqag-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9fqag-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9fqag-0-0"><span data-text="true">A situation where normally opposing political parties come together to agree on an initiative. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dqghv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dqghv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dqghv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d12bj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d12bj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d12bj-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Dictatorship or Autocracy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7t8m7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7t8m7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7t8m7-0-0"><span data-text="true">A form of government where unlimited power is held by one single individual.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="frpio-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frpio-0-0"><span data-offset-key="frpio-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d7g93-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d7g93-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d7g93-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Autonomy</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fueal-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fueal-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fueal-0-0"><span data-text="true">A limited form of independence where a state or colony can control its own domestic policies but has no say over its foreign affairs.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9jukc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9jukc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9jukc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eeeuq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eeeuq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eeeuq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Vote:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9vrsv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vrsv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9vrsv-0-0"><span data-text="true">People have to register to be able to vote and this has been done by someone in each household filling in a form, delivered to each address by the local council, on everyone’s behalf. </span></span>The Tory Government however modified this system to require each individual to provide proof of identity, such as a driving licence or passport.</div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="deirj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="deirj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="deirj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1r0f4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1r0f4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1r0f4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Royal Charter:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c2qbc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c2qbc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c2qbc-0-0"><span data-text="true">A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta of 1215, but since the 14th century have only been used in place of private acts to grant a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They are still, used to establish significant organisations such as boroughs, universities and learned societies.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f2cd6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f2cd6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f2cd6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d4uca-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d4uca-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d4uca-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Speaking Truth To Power:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4aogo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4aogo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4aogo-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a non-violent political tactic, employed by dissidents against the received wisdom or propaganda of governments they regard as oppressive, authoritarian or ideocracy.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cv4q4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cv4q4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cv4q4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e5ibf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e5ibf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e5ibf-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Pressure Groups:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7v8v6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7v8v6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7v8v6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Typically, an organized group of people that want to influence the policies or activities of those, able to make decisions. This could be at a local, national or international level of government.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="djh7b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="djh7b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="djh7b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6s5ka-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6s5ka-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6s5ka-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Interest Groups:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1h9j9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1h9j9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1h9j9-0-0"><span data-text="true">Seek to protect or advance the interests of their members. This means that membership is often limited to people who fit certain political criteria.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5bqdl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5bqdl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5bqdl-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bnbb0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bnbb0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bnbb0-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Cause Groups:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dt85u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dt85u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dt85u-0-0"><span data-text="true">Made up of people who share the same political attitudes and beliefs and wish to advance their cause within those who make decisions. They are not looking for personal benefits.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dt85u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dt85u-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="214la-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="214la-0-0"><span data-offset-key="214la-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="214la-0-1"><span data-text="true">Socialists focused on tackling inequality and homelessness.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8u77h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8u77h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8u77h-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6nuah-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6nuah-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6nuah-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Close to Government:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c5nu4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c5nu4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c5nu4-0-0"><span data-text="true">These people or groups will be consulted by the Government, at varying levels, on a regular basis and even sit on policy or parliamentary committees.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4itu6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4itu6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4itu6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9dq08-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9dq08-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9dq08-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Arms Length:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ecouq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ecouq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ecouq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Individuals and groups with no direct links to the Government either by choice of the Government or the group. Typically in this situation, they will try to influence the public through the print media and social media with varying success.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2h119-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2h119-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2h119-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2nmko-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2nmko-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2nmko-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Non-Governmental Organisations:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="640l5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="640l5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="640l5-0-0"><span data-text="true">A non-profit organization that operates independently of any government, typically one whose purpose is to address a social or political issue.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="640l5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="640l5-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="qifa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qifa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="qifa-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="qifa-0-1"><span data-text="true">The Red Cross and The Red Crescent.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ascro-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ascro-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ascro-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1sjsh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1sjsh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1sjsh-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Trade Unions:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9qif6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9qif6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9qif6-0-0"><span data-text="true">An organised association of workers in a trade, group of trades, or profession, is formed to protect and further their rights and interests.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9263c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9263c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9263c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="crr0s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="crr0s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="crr0s-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Kicking into the Long Grass:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7cm33-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7cm33-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7cm33-0-0"><span data-text="true">Reacting to a difficult problem by doing an investigation that never reports back. To make sure that people will forget about it removing the need to solve it.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="805ab-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="805ab-0-0"><span data-offset-key="805ab-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1drs9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1drs9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1drs9-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Night of the Long Knives:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="934sq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="934sq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="934sq-0-0"><span data-text="true">A cabinet reshuffle where ministers are sacked rather than moved around.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="83bbs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="83bbs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="83bbs-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ec922-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ec922-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ec922-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Westminster Revolving Door:</span></span><span data-offset-key="ec922-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="42jf6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="42jf6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="42jf6-0-0"><span data-text="true">When a politician with insider knowledge leaves parliament and is employed by a company, because of their knowledge, usually on a big salary while working minimal hours.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dn983-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dn983-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dn983-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3aku0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3aku0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3aku0-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Foam-at-the-mouths:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9qcf1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9qcf1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9qcf1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Politically driven, extremely angry people.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2pvv4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2pvv4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2pvv4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1atpf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1atpf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1atpf-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sequestration: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2ihic-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ihic-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2ihic-0-0"><span data-text="true">A type of insolvency is suitable if you’re dealing with debts that you would not be able to repay within a reasonable amount of time.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6ae5i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ae5i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6ae5i-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="aemuq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aemuq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aemuq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Nationalism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9rmrn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9rmrn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9rmrn-0-0"><span data-text="true">An ideology based on the premise that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass all other individual or group interests. Especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="82gdl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="82gdl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="82gdl-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e14oo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e14oo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e14oo-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Austerity:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="crgtq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="crgtq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="crgtq-0-0"><span data-text="true">A set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits, through spending cuts, taxation increases, or a combination of both. (often with the poorest paying the most)</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="skn3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="skn3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="skn3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="env4c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="env4c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="env4c-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Death Penalty - Capital Punishment:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7c7k2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7c7k2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7c7k2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a sanctioned practice of killing someone as a punishment for a crime. When someone is punished with the death penalty is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out such a sentence is known as an execution.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7c7k2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7c7k2-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="44cc7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="44cc7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="44cc7-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="44cc7-0-1"><span data-text="true">The European Union (EU), Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="egl7q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="egl7q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="egl7q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d9d2t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d9d2t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d9d2t-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Social Murder:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5dups-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5dups-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5dups-0-0"><span data-text="true">When a government engineers policies based on austerity. Where the poor are disproportionally effected. Leading to hunger, suicide and increased criminality.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ca35r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ca35r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ca35r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a4oj4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a4oj4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a4oj4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Jingoism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="68nvc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="68nvc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="68nvc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is nationalism taken to an extreme position with regards to foreign policy.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5ihqb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ihqb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5ihqb-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9nro4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9nro4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9nro4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Parti Pris:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d8q0t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d8q0t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d8q0t-0-0"><span data-text="true">The term comes from 15th century French, in which it meant a "decision taken." Later, it took on the political meaning of "bias" or "prejudice".</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="79tuu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="79tuu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="79tuu-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5oer1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5oer1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5oer1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Gaslighting:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fvfh8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fvfh8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fvfh8-0-0"><span data-text="true">An elaborate and insidious technique of deception and psychological manipulation, usually practiced by a single deceiver, or “gaslighter,” on a single victim over an extended period. Its effect is to gradually undermine the victim’s confidence in his own ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or reality from appearance, thereby rendering him pathologically dependent on the gaslighter in his thinking or feelings.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="deg5k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="deg5k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="deg5k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9kbfc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9kbfc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9kbfc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Barrack Room Lawyer</span></span><span data-offset-key="9kbfc-0-1"><span data-text="true">:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="du6eb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="du6eb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="du6eb-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who freely offers opinions, especially in matters, that he or she is uniquely unqualified to give. He or she is the local busybody, curtain twitcher, the wind-up merchant, a self-opinionated trouble-maker.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4c9iv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4c9iv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4c9iv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="143fj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="143fj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="143fj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Keyboard Warrior:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ef6mc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ef6mc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ef6mc-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who makes abusive or aggressive posts on social media, typically one who also conceals their true identity:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ets4s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ets4s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ets4s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="94g1b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="94g1b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="94g1b-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Subliminal Propaganda:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ffofb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ffofb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ffofb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Tries to influence people without them being aware of it, through reading subversive materials without realising that they have done so.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ffofb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ffofb-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a3th2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a3th2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a3th2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="a3th2-0-1"><span data-text="true"> How many times have you thought, I know “</span></span><span data-offset-key="a3th2-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">I've read that somewhere before</span></span><span data-offset-key="a3th2-0-3"><span data-text="true">.” sometimes described as feelings of Déjà vu.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5c7lq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5c7lq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5c7lq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5c7lq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5c7lq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Déjà vu:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="51g77-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="51g77-0-0"><span data-offset-key="51g77-0-0"><span data-text="true">This experience is a neurological anomaly when the brain, creates a strong sensation or feeling that an event or experience currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5ldl7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ldl7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5ldl7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d59m8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d59m8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d59m8-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Social Engineering:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eufib-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eufib-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eufib-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the use of subterfuge in an attempt to manage social change and regulate the future development and behaviour of an individual, or the whole of society.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eufib-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eufib-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d3i46-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d3i46-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d3i46-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="d3i46-0-1"><span data-text="true">The use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes. People with an email or social media account should watch out for phishing attacks and other forms of social engineering.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8kv2v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8kv2v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8kv2v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9c82h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9c82h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9c82h-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Phishing:</span></span><span data-offset-key="9c82h-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Is a form of fraud in which an attacker masquerades as a reputable entity or person in an email, on social media, or other forms of communication including the telephone, in an attempt to extract login credentials or account information from victims.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5hmar-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5hmar-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5hmar-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9f1tn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9f1tn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9f1tn-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Clickbait - Klick Bait - Click Bait</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="djev5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="djev5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="djev5-0-0"><span data-text="true">It literally means fishing with a bait for clicks. It's often a provocative social media link which is intended to entice you to click on it. The "bait" is intentionally misleading or provocative and clickbait is usually intended as a way for the Mainstream Media to make money.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="emk4s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="emk4s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="emk4s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bdhh5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bdhh5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bdhh5-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Media Phishing:</span></span><span data-offset-key="bdhh5-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bdhh5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bdhh5-0-1"><span data-text="true">A common type of clickbait through (sponsored) adverts such as you might find on various social media platforms. Such clickbait usually appeals to a variety of common interests. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Examples:</span></span><span data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-1"><span data-text="true"> include, a male or female sexy, provocatively clad picture. Or with intentionally suggestive and intriguing pictures of celebrities, with captions, like "you won't believe what this sex god did". The stories are designed to attract (Socially Engineer) people, such as by playing on their personal issues, such as weight shaming by offering weight loss methods or body building tricks. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9d7ff-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4jesp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4jesp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4jesp-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Data Dredging: <br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7432b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7432b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7432b-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant. This is done by performing many statistical tests on the data and only reporting those that come back with significant results supporting a biased opinion.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8hd65-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8hd65-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8hd65-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8hd65-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8hd65-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="8hd65-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Facebook banned Cambridge Analytica from advertising on its platform, saying that it had been deceived. On 23 March 2018, the British High Court granted the ICO a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's London offices. Individuals' accounts were trawled, and then using data analysis techniques including data mining it was possible to serve up, bespoke socially engineered political materials to influence the individual.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cfnsg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cfnsg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cfnsg-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="k6m1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="k6m1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="k6m1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Data Mining:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9l5e2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9l5e2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9l5e2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a process used to turn raw data into useful information. By using software to look for patterns in large batches of data, Users can learn more about their customers to develop more effective marketing strategies, increase sales and decrease costs.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="78rmi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="78rmi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="78rmi-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9mr70-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9mr70-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9mr70-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Non Sequitur:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="euqvo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="euqvo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="euqvo-0-0"><span data-text="true">In Latin, non sequitur means "it does not follow." The phrase was borrowed into English in the 1500s by people who made a formal study of logic. For them, it meant a conclusion that does not follow from the statements that lead to it.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="euqvo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="euqvo-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7ahc8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ahc8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ahc8-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="7ahc8-0-1"><span data-text="true">We now use non sequitur for any kind of statement that seems to come out of the blue.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3q5h3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3q5h3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3q5h3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cc2tl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cc2tl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cc2tl-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Naysayer:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8p4b7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8p4b7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8p4b7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Someone who deliberately denies or refuses to accept, opposes without reason, is a fake sceptic or cynical about something.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2k689-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2k689-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2k689-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bd3i2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bd3i2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bd3i2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Mansplain, Mansplaining:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1oa7r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1oa7r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1oa7r-0-0"><span data-text="true">Of a man, commenting on or explaining something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9k4of-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9k4of-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9k4of-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3h1qa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3h1qa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3h1qa-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Androcracy, Andrarchy or Phallocracy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fpg92-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fpg92-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fpg92-0-0"><span data-text="true">A state or society ruled by men where moral authority and control of property may also be exclusively in the hands of males.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6v1o5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6v1o5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6v1o5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fre17-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fre17-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fre17-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Transgender:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="l12g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="l12g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="l12g-0-0"><span data-text="true">Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their gender at birth.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5mu57-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5mu57-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5mu57-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ca18s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ca18s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ca18s-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">TERF: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4imm2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4imm2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4imm2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Stands for 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist'. Otherwise known as someone who </span></span><span data-offset-key="4imm2-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">supposedly</span></span><span data-offset-key="4imm2-0-2"><span data-text="true"> stands for women’s rights, while only considering people who were assigned female at birth to be women. This means they don't consider transgender women to be women.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d6qd7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d6qd7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d6qd7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8pejf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8pejf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8pejf-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Plutocratic Plutocracies:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="i185-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="i185-0-0"><span data-offset-key="i185-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is typically used to describe systems that resemble or function as plutocracies or the actions of people considered plutocrats. Used to describe things that involve a plutocracy a government in which wealthy people use their wealth to rule. Such people can be called Plutocrats. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9i55d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9i55d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9i55d-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ccr1f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ccr1f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ccr1f-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Plutocrats:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d04lc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d04lc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d04lc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Could be the actual leaders, or someone who may influence or control the decisions that the leaders make.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5mt4f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5mt4f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5mt4f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2lg39-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2lg39-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2lg39-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Mic Drop:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="61t43-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="61t43-0-0"><span data-offset-key="61t43-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the gesture of intentionally dropping one's microphone at the end of a performance or speech to signal triumph. Often used to indicate when a politician has demolished a rival's credibility.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5o07f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5o07f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5o07f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2ejd0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ejd0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2ejd0-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">In The Last-Chance Saloon:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7gthq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7gthq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7gthq-0-0"><span data-text="true">A final opportunity to be successful or to be accepted after a number of spectacular failures.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a21lm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a21lm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a21lm-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a21lm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a21lm-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="a21lm-0-1"><span data-text="true">Some of the MP's are already in the Westminster departure lounge while others are in the Last Chance Members Bar.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5342o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5342o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5342o-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="223tj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="223tj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="223tj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Cathartic, Cathartic Experience:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6t51a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6t51a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6t51a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions. An experience of emotional release and purification, often inspired by or through art.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="50v5c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="50v5c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="50v5c-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="50v5c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="50v5c-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="50v5c-0-1"><span data-text="true">In psychoanalysis, catharsis is the release of tension and anxiety that results from bringing repressed feelings and memories into consciousness.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dem1n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dem1n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dem1n-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bouv0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bouv0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bouv0-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Non-Dom, Non Domiciled:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ajgfu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ajgfu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ajgfu-0-0"><span data-text="true">The non-domicile rule, which allows some UK residents to limit the UK tax paid on earnings, has been a regular topic of debate. Various changes have been made to the way people face charges in the UK if they wish to keep their non-dom status. The tax status remains, and there is an element of mystery about it - with the number of non-doms in and outside the UK a matter of uninformed guesswork.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="aiepj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aiepj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aiepj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3a8hf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3a8hf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3a8hf-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Racial Gatekeeping:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2k3sq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2k3sq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2k3sq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the assertion that a political figure could not possibly be criticised for policies targeting a particular racially marginalised group because they themselves are members of that group.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="38hpk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="38hpk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="38hpk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c7ggn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7ggn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c7ggn-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bunga-Bunga:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="elgt8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="elgt8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="elgt8-0-0"><span data-text="true">The phrase gained popularity in Italy and the international press to refer to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex parties, which caused a major political scandal in Italy.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="elgt8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="elgt8-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fbcck-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fbcck-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fbcck-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="fbcck-0-1"><span data-text="true">The regular Tory sex scandals are surpassing the infamy of the Berlesconi bunga-bunga parties.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8r511-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8r511-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8r511-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e7b0h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e7b0h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e7b0h-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Brown Nosing:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="327lb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="327lb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="327lb-0-0"><span data-text="true">The activity of shamelessly currying favour with someone for reward or preferential treatment.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="uo6v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="uo6v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="uo6v-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="uo6v-0-1"><span data-text="true">The brown-nosing political lobbyist who gives a £50,000 '</span></span><span data-offset-key="uo6v-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">political donation</span></span><span data-offset-key="uo6v-0-3"><span data-text="true">' to a member of parliament.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e9tbe-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e9tbe-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e9tbe-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9henv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9henv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9henv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">British Honours System:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a3s06-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a3s06-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a3s06-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Honours System is overseen by the Cabinet Office Honours and Appointments Secretariat. British nationals and citizens of the 15 Commonwealth countries can be secretly nominated. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a7fvu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a7fvu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a7fvu-0-0"><span data-text="true">frequently the honours system is viewed as back-slapping awards for the establishment boys and girls. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="di0rn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="di0rn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="di0rn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bp4p2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bp4p2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bp4p2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Honours List:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1an8r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1an8r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1an8r-0-0"><span data-text="true">Consists of knights and dames, appointments to the Order of the British Empire and gallantry awards to servicemen and women. With a bravery award for civilians.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="36nh2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="36nh2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="36nh2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="12rj7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="12rj7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="12rj7-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Knighthood or Dame:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8kb3b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8kb3b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8kb3b-0-0"><span data-text="true">A Knighthood is generally granted by the monarch, to selected persons to recognise some meritorious achievement. The modern female equivalent in the English language is Dame.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8kb3b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8kb3b-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dp13b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dp13b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dp13b-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="dp13b-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Wives of knights, however, are entitled to use the honorific pre-nominal "Lady" before their husband's surname. Husbands of Dames are not allowed to use the title Sir!</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1jgih-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1jgih-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1jgih-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7upec-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7upec-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7upec-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Order British Empire:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a736r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a736r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a736r-0-0"><span data-text="true">Three awards represent different ranks in the Order of the British Empire. The highest ranking is Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), followed by Officer (OBE) and Member (MBE).</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1i6l4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1i6l4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1i6l4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="39nvs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="39nvs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="39nvs-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">British Empire Medal:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="91l32-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="91l32-0-0"><span data-offset-key="91l32-0-0"><span data-text="true">The British Empire Medal is a medal awarded for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="q1jm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="q1jm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="q1jm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="68sgm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="68sgm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="68sgm-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">British Industry Medal:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6i6oa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6i6oa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6i6oa-0-0"><span data-text="true">My father was a coal miner and my mother always said </span></span><span data-offset-key="6i6oa-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">"He (father) gets his British Industry Medals and Certificates in his pay-packet every Friday."</span></span><span data-offset-key="6i6oa-0-2"><span data-text="true"> She meant the meagre supply of notes and coins with a picture of the King or Queen head on them. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8soq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8soq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8soq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="698f6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="698f6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="698f6-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Order of the Brown Nose:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8b8la-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8b8la-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8b8la-0-0"><span data-text="true">Private Eye famously created the fake (OBN) which it awarded to political sycophants seeking a knighthood.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8j8u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8j8u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8j8u-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4hjrg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4hjrg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4hjrg-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Pyrric Victory:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8maui-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8maui-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8maui-0-0"><span data-text="true">A victory that is not worth achieving because of the excessive toll it takes on the victor.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8maui-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8maui-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fq01l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fq01l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fq01l-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="fq01l-0-1"><span data-text="true">Winning the lawsuit was a Pyrrhic victory, since it cost us everything we had.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1de58-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1de58-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1de58-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eucrq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eucrq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eucrq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Schmendrick:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5cm6v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5cm6v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5cm6v-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is Yiddish for an ineffectual, foolish, or contemptible person.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5cm6v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5cm6v-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e28pr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e28pr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e28pr-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="e28pr-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Sir Keir Starmer is a political schmendrick.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bk7o8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bk7o8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bk7o8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6pbej-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6pbej-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6pbej-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Chutzpah:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9jnee-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9jnee-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9jnee-0-0"><span data-text="true">Extreme self-confidence or audacity.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9jnee-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9jnee-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="95g07-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="95g07-0-0"><span data-offset-key="95g07-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="95g07-0-1"><span data-text="true">Love him or hate him, you have to admire Corbyn's chutzpah.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eh0vd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eh0vd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eh0vd-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cvud1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cvud1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cvud1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Gulag:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="62oed-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="62oed-0-0"><span data-offset-key="62oed-0-0"><span data-text="true">A system of forced labour camps was established during Joseph Stalin’s long reign as dictator of the Soviet Union. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="62oed-0-0"><span data-offset-key="62oed-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4oam6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4oam6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4oam6-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="4oam6-0-1"><span data-text="true"> In the 1930s, the British government set up a series of work camps or gulags for the unemployed supposedly to make them fit enough to work.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5g7v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5g7v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5g7v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8nhoc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8nhoc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8nhoc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Putsch:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b2e0u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b2e0u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b2e0u-0-0"><span data-text="true">A carefully plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a leader or government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b2e0u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b2e0u-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1nit7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1nit7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1nit7-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example</span></span><span data-offset-key="1nit7-0-1"><span data-text="true">: The Labour Party PLP in a putsch against the elected leader of the party Jeremy Corbyn.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bfe12-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bfe12-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bfe12-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="mm17-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="mm17-0-0"><span data-offset-key="mm17-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Dogpile, Pile-On: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bijqk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bijqk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bijqk-0-0"><span data-text="true">Organised harassment when a number of different individuals send threatening communications to a victim.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="erlqo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="erlqo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="erlqo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="44sp5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="44sp5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="44sp5-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Non sequitur:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bgchu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bgchu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bgchu-0-0"><span data-text="true">A statement that does not follow, to a conclusion from the rhetoric that leads to it. But we now use non sequitur for any kind of statement that seems to come out of the blue.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a0fpe-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a0fpe-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a0fpe-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2tkfp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2tkfp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2tkfp-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sterotypical:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fatpm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fatpm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fatpm-0-0"><span data-text="true">Conforming to a fixed or general pattern or type - especially when of a prejudiced nature.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9p1k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9p1k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9p1k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a6co5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a6co5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a6co5-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Islamophobia:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f1vvb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f1vvb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f1vvb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is an irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people who practice Islam.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7md8v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7md8v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7md8v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1nkkv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1nkkv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1nkkv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Plurality:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fnaen-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fnaen-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fnaen-0-0"><span data-text="true">A number of votes cast for a candidate in a contest of more than two candidates that is greater than the number cast for any other candidate but not more than half the total votes cast.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c82tm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c82tm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c82tm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dtehd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dtehd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dtehd-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Witch Hunt or Witch-Purge:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="feapu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="feapu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="feapu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is an attempt to find and punish a particular person who is being blamed for something, often simply because of their opinions and not because they have actually done anything wrong.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="feapu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="feapu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="vihn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="vihn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="vihn-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="vihn-0-1"><span data-text="true"> In political terms a witch hunt is when a fake trial or kangaroo court is held, when political opponents try to blame someone else for their own political failings.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="18vr6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="18vr6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="18vr6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f2lgt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f2lgt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f2lgt-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Kangaroo Court:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ah1o4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ah1o4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ah1o4-0-0"><span data-text="true">A court held by a group of people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence or faked evidence as guilty of a crime or misdemeanour.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="at93s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="at93s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="at93s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7hsoh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7hsoh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7hsoh-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Slapp Suit:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="95j90-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="95j90-0-0"><span data-offset-key="95j90-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defence.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="361f9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="361f9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="361f9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="esq2a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="esq2a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="esq2a-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Vexatious Litigation:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2dgjk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2dgjk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2dgjk-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2dgjk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2dgjk-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eodta-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eodta-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eodta-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="eodta-0-1"><span data-text="true"> A pattern of frivolous legal actions is typically required to rise to the level of vexatious.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="46r56-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="46r56-0-0"><span data-offset-key="46r56-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fsuph-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fsuph-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fsuph-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Virtue Signalling: (1)</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9595q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9595q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9595q-0-0"><span data-text="true">Refers to simple gestures like wearing a badge, waving flags, or using hashtags to signal that you endorse a particular political position. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9595q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9595q-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6prqb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6prqb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6prqb-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="6prqb-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Virtue Signalling Is the popular modern habit of indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favour for certain political ideas or cultural happenings.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b1nsq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b1nsq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b1nsq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="38p03-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="38p03-0-0"><span data-offset-key="38p03-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Virtual Signaling: (2)</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c3plp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c3plp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c3plp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Used by right wing political opponents as an insult to those who support virtuous causes. Suggesting that they are banner waving in order to appear virtuous, whilst in reality are doing little to nothing to support actual causes. The belief that everyone else takes empathy like they do.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="70fte-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="70fte-0-0"><span data-offset-key="70fte-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9si6g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9si6g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9si6g-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Alma Mater: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6glm3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6glm3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6glm3-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university, school, or college that one formerly attended.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4se2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4se2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4se2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="esk70-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="esk70-0-0"><span data-offset-key="esk70-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">No Pasaran:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bqrc9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bqrc9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bqrc9-0-0"><span data-text="true">The phrase comes from the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, and was used by the left-wing soldiers fighting against Franco and the Falangists as a rallying cry.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="epjet-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="epjet-0-0"><span data-offset-key="epjet-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8v5ba-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8v5ba-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8v5ba-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Accord:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ear89-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ear89-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ear89-0-0"><span data-text="true">A diplomatic agreement that does not have the same binding force as a treaty.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6u8cs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6u8cs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6u8cs-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5imr2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5imr2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5imr2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Forelock-Tuggers:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7ru4d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ru4d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ru4d-0-0"><span data-text="true">Behaving in an obsequious or overly deferential way.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ru4d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ru4d-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bl3ov-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bl3ov-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bl3ov-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="bl3ov-0-1"><span data-text="true"> ‘<i>The Tory is </i></span></span><span data-offset-key="bl3ov-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">a simpering, forelock-tugging toady.’</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a3jg8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a3jg8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a3jg8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7mhu4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7mhu4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7mhu4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Toady:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cd36j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cd36j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cd36j-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is usually defined as a hanger-on or sycophant.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3aqkd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3aqkd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3aqkd-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="edsgp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edsgp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="edsgp-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sycophant:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e0arh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e0arh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0arh-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who grovels towards someone important in order to gain an advantage.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dquvc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dquvc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dquvc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3a5b6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3a5b6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3a5b6-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Self-Publicist:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9q8p3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9q8p3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9q8p3-0-0"><span data-text="true">Politics attracts all types of self-publicists, from the geeky Inadequate to the flamboyant braggart often seen as a boaster, blowhard, poser, show-off, big-head, bull-shitter, bigmouth, wank puffin or egotist.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="n5qd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="n5qd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="n5qd-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dmnn7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dmnn7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dmnn7-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bombast:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c8rub-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c8rub-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c8rub-0-0"><span data-text="true">High-sounding language with little if any meaning, used to impress people by being pompous or having a sense of self-importance. An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bc075-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bc075-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bc075-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="es7sc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="es7sc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="es7sc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sociopath:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7vdb7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7vdb7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7vdb7-0-0"><span data-text="true">A term used to describe someone who has an antisocial personality disorder and can’t understand others’ feelings. They’ll often break rules or make impulsive decisions without feeling guilty for the harm they cause.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7vdb7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7vdb7-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1ao44-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ao44-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ao44-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="1ao44-0-1"><span data-text="true">Doesn’t respect social norms or overstep social boundaries. Lies, deceives others and uses others for personal gain. Often behaving without thinking of consequences. Doesn’t feel guilt or remorse for having harmed or mistreated others.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="btpcg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="btpcg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="btpcg-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="enmgv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="enmgv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="enmgv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Stockholm Syndrome:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="gkep-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="gkep-0-0"><span data-offset-key="gkep-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a psychological condition that occurs when a victim of abuse identifies and attaches, or bonds, positively with their abuser.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b9c5s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b9c5s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b9c5s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4m9ga-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4m9ga-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4m9ga-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Flip Flopper:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1frj4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1frj4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1frj4-0-0"><span data-text="true">A politician who changes his mind on certain important issues over time.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6em9f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6em9f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6em9f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7n6t0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7n6t0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7n6t0-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bipartisan:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9fd21-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9fd21-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9fd21-0-0"><span data-text="true">An effort that brings together both political parties in mutual agreement.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="58jtp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="58jtp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="58jtp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8r33k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8r33k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8r33k-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Feminazi:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2q44a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2q44a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2q44a-0-0"><span data-text="true">A militant Feminist who is viewed as going overboard on women's causes.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7e0ql-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7e0ql-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7e0ql-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ficn1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ficn1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ficn1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Right-to-lifer:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eqahf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eqahf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eqahf-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who is anti-abortion.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6c37c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6c37c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6c37c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="61okr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="61okr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="61okr-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Pro-Choice:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9hge0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9hge0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9hge0-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who is in favour of a woman's right to choose abortion or not.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="52ug9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52ug9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="52ug9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2md5t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2md5t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2md5t-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Greenwashing:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1f5o7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1f5o7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1f5o7-0-0"><span data-text="true">When companies attempt to make themselves look environmentally friendly usually when they're not.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3vu4v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3vu4v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3vu4v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5pv79-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5pv79-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5pv79-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Frankenfood:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c9asn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c9asn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c9asn-0-0"><span data-text="true">This term is used by politicians and lobbyists to refer to genetically-modified food products.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7t5hr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7t5hr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7t5hr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dqv3f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dqv3f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dqv3f-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Political Parties:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cnlr8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cnlr8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cnlr8-0-0"><span data-text="true">A group of people who come together, usually under one name or banner, with a common ethos about how a country should be run.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9l146-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9l146-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9l146-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="chflv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="chflv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="chflv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Socialist – Socialism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6qo8s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6qo8s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6qo8s-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the United Kingdom, socialism is what a true left-wing government does. A political government where the workers play a more significant part in the workplace. Socialism requires that the main streams of economic activity are brought under public direction, with an economic plan that works for the many and workers have rights and workplace democracy. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6qo8s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6qo8s-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="23ffd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="23ffd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="23ffd-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="23ffd-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Socialist governments favour the mixed economy with some nationalisation of key industries and the safety net of social welfare. Socialists have also adopted the causes of other social movements such as environmentalism, feminism and progressivism.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="es82v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="es82v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="es82v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cqqr8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cqqr8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cqqr8-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Agrarian Socialist</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bl0o6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bl0o6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bl0o6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Originally applying to non urban, pre-industrial revolution peoples with traditional attitudes, those who believe in the collective ownership and control of primary industries, and to a lesser extent secondary industries, for the benefit of all,</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7equp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7equp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7equp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9rva3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9rva3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9rva3-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Blairism, Blairites:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="55abu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="55abu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="55abu-0-0"><span data-text="true">The political ideology of the ex Labour leader Tony Blair and those that follow him. Proponents of Blairism are referred to as Blairites. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="55abu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="55abu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="55abu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="55abu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b><i>Example</i></b>: Blair was an interventionist and active in supporting The US president George Bush foreign policy. He also supported increasing law enforcement powers, with a particular focus on Orwell's 1984 style surveillance. Blair is now seen as an alleged war criminal in Socialist political groups.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2o225-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2o225-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2o225-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5jcti-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5jcti-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5jcti-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Liberal Democrats:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3ve7o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ve7o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3ve7o-0-0"><span data-text="true">Are a small political party in the United Kingdom. Liberal in relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy and free enterprise.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c43l3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c43l3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c43l3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bfqm1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bfqm1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bfqm1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Green Party:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ciuot-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ciuot-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ciuot-0-0"><span data-text="true">Are a growing political party in the United Kingdom. Ethos is to change the political system to protect the environment and to reduce the effects of climate change or global warming.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cjdng-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cjdng-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cjdng-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="emc22-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="emc22-0-0"><span data-offset-key="emc22-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Communist:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6qjau-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6qjau-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6qjau-0-0"><span data-text="true">Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic, ideology. A movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socio-economic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state. Communism includes a variety of schools of thought which broadly include Marxism and ancho-communism as well as the political ideologies grouped around both.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="83p92-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="83p92-0-0"><span data-offset-key="83p92-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="edlnj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edlnj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="edlnj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Ancho-Communism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4vkbc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4vkbc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4vkbc-0-0"><span data-text="true">That the current order of society stems from capitalism, its economic system and mode of production; that in this system there are two major social classes; that conflict between these two classes is the root of all problems in society; and that this situation can only ultimately be resolved through a social revolution.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="p75f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="p75f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="p75f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="92oae-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="92oae-0-0"><span data-offset-key="92oae-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Anarcho-Syndicalism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c9hsq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c9hsq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c9hsq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c9b7p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c9b7p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c9b7p-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a192v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a192v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a192v-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Autocracy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4g0uk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4g0uk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4g0uk-0-0"><span data-text="true">A form of government where unlimited power is held by one single individual.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6pi1c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6pi1c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6pi1c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ee0ea-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ee0ea-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ee0ea-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Autonomy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2i6h1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2i6h1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2i6h1-0-0"><span data-text="true">A limited form of independence where, for example, a state or colony can control its own domestic affairs but has no say over its foreign affairs.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="64soc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="64soc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="64soc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="54c89-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="54c89-0-0"><span data-offset-key="54c89-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Apparatchik:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bu4un-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bu4un-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bu4un-0-0"><span data-text="true">A derogatory term for a political zealot.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="t7b8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="t7b8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="t7b8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3kb7v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3kb7v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3kb7v-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Proletariat:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="arhcn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="arhcn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="arhcn-0-0"><span data-text="true">The working class, who make up the majority of the population within any society and must work to survive.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fg819-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fg819-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fg819-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="mneg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="mneg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="mneg-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bourgeoisie:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="86tcf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="86tcf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="86tcf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the capitalist class, usually a small minority that derives great profit from employing the working class on subsistence wages. Enabled through private ownership of the means of production.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5ls4j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ls4j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5ls4j-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9lka9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9lka9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9lka9-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Tsar - Czar - Czar or Csar:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9soh1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9soh1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9soh1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the title of the supreme ruler of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire. Also a person who has been given special powers by the government to deal with a particular issue.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="64h1o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="64h1o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="64h1o-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3puen-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3puen-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3puen-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Keynesianism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eb41i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eb41i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eb41i-0-0"><span data-text="true">Named after John Maynard Keynes whose macroeconomic theories about how economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand or total spending in the economy. According to Keynes, the productive capacity of the economy sometimes behaves erratically, affecting production, employment and inflation.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="femnl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="femnl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="femnl-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a572m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a572m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a572m-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Belle Époque:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6ko3p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ko3p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6ko3p-0-0"><span data-text="true">A beautiful epoch or period of relative peace and optimism. Marked by progress in the arts, literature, technology and economic development.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c985u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c985u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c985u-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fhjv4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fhjv4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fhjv4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Utilitarianism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b2shr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b2shr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b2shr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jeremy Bentham an English philosopher of the 18th century was the founder of Utilitarianism. A pragmatist, who believed policy decisions should be those that produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number. To him, the concept of natural laws and basic human rights was nothing more than “nonsense on stilts”.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="jqft-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="jqft-0-0"><span data-offset-key="jqft-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9sodf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9sodf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9sodf-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Rules for Radicals:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cko8s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cko8s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cko8s-0-0"><span data-text="true">Saul Alinsky was described by opponents as an organisational genius, an American political activist, although never aligned with any political party, who, through his book </span></span><span data-offset-key="cko8s-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">Rules for Radicals</span></span><span data-offset-key="cko8s-0-2"><span data-text="true">, propagated ideas for poor communities to successfully organise politically. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1otjo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1otjo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1otjo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ba9ep-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ba9ep-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ba9ep-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="ba9ep-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Prominent in the 60’s with students and other counter-culture movements. Alinsky's book </span></span><span data-offset-key="ba9ep-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">Rules for Radicals</span></span><span data-offset-key="ba9ep-0-3"><span data-text="true">, is now popular with all sides of the political divide.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1n1oc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1n1oc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1n1oc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3v9hv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3v9hv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3v9hv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Banana Republic:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1h3jg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1h3jg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1h3jg-0-0"><span data-text="true">A small country economically dependent on a single agrarian export commodity (traditionally a banana), but with a corrupt government in charge. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cg10s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cg10s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cg10s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8j744-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8j744-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8j744-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Conservatism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="aj057-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aj057-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aj057-0-0"><span data-text="true">After a period of Liberal dominance before the First World War, the Conservatives gradually became more influential in government, regaining full control of the cabinet in 1922. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aj057-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aj057-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8ck44-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ck44-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ck44-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="8ck44-0-1"><span data-text="true"> In the inter-war period, conservatism was the major ideology in Britain as the Liberal Party vied with the Labour Party for control of the left. </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="frtsp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frtsp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="frtsp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6hlm5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6hlm5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6hlm5-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Nationalism: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6tb9a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6tb9a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6tb9a-0-0"><span data-text="true">After the Second World War, the first Labour government (1945–1951) under Clement Attlee embarked on a program of nationalisation of industry and the promotion of social welfare. The Conservatives generally accepted those policies until the 1980s, when the Conservative government of Thatcher, guided by neo-liberal economics, reversed many of Labour's programmes.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="el38p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="el38p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="el38p-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1m3kd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1m3kd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1m3kd-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Thatcherite, Thatcherism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="doleo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="doleo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="doleo-0-0"><span data-text="true">A type of conservative ideology named after Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher. The term has been used to describe the principles of the British government under Thatcher from 1979 to 1990, and continuing into the governments of John Major and David Cameron. When asked what was her greatest achievement she said 'Tony Blair.' </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="doleo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="doleo-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="hedu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hedu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hedu-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="hedu-0-1"><span data-text="true"> Thatcherism represented a systematic, decisive rejection and reversal of the post-war consensus. Such as the welfare state, nationalised industry and close regulation of the British economy.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1u3b8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1u3b8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1u3b8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8024d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8024d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8024d-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Far-Left:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="12tdk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="12tdk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="12tdk-0-0"><span data-text="true">Usually characterised as being Communist, often mistaken for Socialism. Derogatory descriptions are used to describe adherents such as Trots for Trotskyism or Stalinist.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="51m7c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="51m7c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="51m7c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="96nkb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="96nkb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="96nkb-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Left-Wing:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="73d7m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="73d7m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="73d7m-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who is more liberal thinking - typically this is someone who is for equality, for gay rights, and pro-choice, among many other issues.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="pdgl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="pdgl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="pdgl-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8feg5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8feg5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8feg5-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Agrarian Socialist:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cb9kt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cb9kt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cb9kt-0-0"><span data-text="true">Those who believe in the collective ownership and control of primary industries, and to a lesser extent secondary industries, for the benefit of all.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4pc9l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4pc9l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4pc9l-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9bl62-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9bl62-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9bl62-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Third Way, Blairism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4oi8b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4oi8b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4oi8b-0-0"><span data-text="true">A political philosophy closely allied with centrism. That attempts to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics within a group - by advocating a mixture of centre-right and centrist economic platforms with a light sprinkling of centre-left social policies.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ev7h9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ev7h9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ev7h9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1rq3t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1rq3t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1rq3t-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Centrist, Centrism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="hsl7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hsl7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hsl7-0-0"><span data-text="true">In politics, centrism is a political outlook or specific position that involves acceptance or support of a balance of a degree of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy, while opposing political changes which would result in a significant shift of society strongly to either the left or the right.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hsl7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hsl7-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4b0it-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4b0it-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4b0it-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="4b0it-0-1"><span data-text="true">Centrists are characterised as sitting on the fence, or being neither for or against the status quo.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="djjn8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="djjn8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="djjn8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f5jcm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f5jcm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5jcm-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Right-Wing:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8sgp1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8sgp1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8sgp1-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who is more conservative thinking. This typically means someone who is looking for lowered taxes, to grow greater personal profits. Especially attractive to the more wealthy and those wanting decentralisation of government through the privatisation of state owned industry.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4q78b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4q78b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4q78b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9r15q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9r15q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9r15q-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Far-Right:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cgatg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cgatg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cgatg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Also referred to as the '</span></span><span data-offset-key="cgatg-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">extreme right</span></span><span data-offset-key="cgatg-0-2"><span data-text="true">' or '</span></span><span data-offset-key="cgatg-0-3" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">right-wing extremism</span></span><span data-offset-key="cgatg-0-4"><span data-text="true">'. Are political beliefs that are to the extreme right of the left–right political spectrum. Particularly associated in terms of extremist nationalism and authoritarian tendencies.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="31iei-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="31iei-0-0"><span data-offset-key="31iei-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eicbv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eicbv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eicbv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Isolationist:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="41v5d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41v5d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="41v5d-0-0"><span data-text="true">Connected with the political principle or practice of showing interest only in your own country and not being involved in international activities.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="deru1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="deru1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="deru1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="21n0h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="21n0h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="21n0h-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Nationalist:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fq6bv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fq6bv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fq6bv-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who wants their country to be politically independent, self-governing or self rule. Who strongly believe their country is better than all others.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9n2qa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9n2qa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9n2qa-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="culfv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="culfv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="culfv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Separatism – Separatist:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="end83-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="end83-0-0"><span data-offset-key="end83-0-0"><span data-text="true">The belief held by people of a particular race, religion, or another group within a country that they should be independent and have their own government or in some way live apart from other people:</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="end83-0-0"><span data-offset-key="end83-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f7eje-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f7eje-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f7eje-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="f7eje-0-1"><span data-text="true">Basque separatism, Scottish home rule, UK Brexit.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b9kjg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b9kjg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b9kjg-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ebui6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ebui6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ebui6-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Patriot - Patriotism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="89k9n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="89k9n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="89k9n-0-0"><span data-text="true">Patriotism can turn into jingoism and intolerance very quickly.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="83km9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="83km9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="83km9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4j4o2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4j4o2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4j4o2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bigot:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bl4pd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bl4pd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bl4pd-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person who refuses to discuss, consider or listen to, any beliefs or theories contrary to his or her own thinking.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7r9o7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7r9o7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7r9o7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2t3ch-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2t3ch-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2t3ch-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Jingoism - Jingoistic:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6kkoc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6kkoc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6kkoc-0-0"><span data-text="true">The extreme belief that your own country is always best, often shown in enthusiastic support for a war against another country.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5ge14-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ge14-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5ge14-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="afakq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="afakq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="afakq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Altruistic:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8rf88-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rf88-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8rf88-0-0"><span data-text="true">Showing a wish to help or bring advantages to others, even if it results in a disadvantage for yourself:</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rf88-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8rf88-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="be3a3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="be3a3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="be3a3-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="be3a3-0-1"><span data-text="true">I doubt whether Trevor Chinn's motives for donating the money to Sir Keir Starmer are altruistic - he is probably looking for publicity or influence.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="529fm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="529fm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="529fm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="em7nq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="em7nq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="em7nq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Unctuous:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2dvg2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2dvg2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2dvg2-0-0"><span data-text="true">They seem to be full of praise, kindness, or interest, but are obviously insincere and excessively ingratiating.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2dvg2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2dvg2-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8ahg9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ahg9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ahg9-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="8ahg9-0-1"><span data-text="true">Ann Widdicombe’s wonderful description of the unctuous Michael Howard as having “something of the night about him!"</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f3tof-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f3tof-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f3tof-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="47dvg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="47dvg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="47dvg-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Kafkaesque:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4kib5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kib5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4kib5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is characterised by nightmarish settings in which the people are crushed by nonsensical, blind authority.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9hoq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9hoq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9hoq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="k7q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="k7q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="k7q-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Obfuscation:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b1rnj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b1rnj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b1rnj-0-0"><span data-text="true">The action of making something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3lpc8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3lpc8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3lpc8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="23n91-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="23n91-0-0"><span data-offset-key="23n91-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Malfeasance:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3q24c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3q24c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3q24c-0-0"><span data-text="true">Dishonest or illegal behaviour, especially by a person in authority.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fss7k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fss7k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fss7k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="an9pj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="an9pj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="an9pj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Statistical Anomaly: </span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="am312-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="am312-0-0"><span data-offset-key="am312-0-0"><span data-text="true">Occurs when something falls out of the normal range for one group, but not as a result of being in that group.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5kran-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5kran-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5kran-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="khlr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="khlr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="khlr-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Zionism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1nr57-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1nr57-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1nr57-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jewish nationalist movement has as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish National State in Palestine. Zionism originated in eastern and central Europe in the latter part of the 19th century.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2ro0f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ro0f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2ro0f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ont4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ont4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ont4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Antisemitism, anti-semitism</span></span><span data-offset-key="ont4-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span data-offset-key="ont4-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">or </span></span><span data-offset-key="ont4-0-3" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">anti-Semitism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ash0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ash0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ash0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Anti-Semitism is generally considered to be a form of racism.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="813a0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="813a0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="813a0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="rb3p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="rb3p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="rb3p-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Actuarial science:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5o68a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5o68a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5o68a-0-0"><span data-text="true">The discipline that applies mathematics, statistics and probability theory to assess risk in human affairs such as insurance, issuing finance, and in some cases sentencing in criminal justice.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1mci2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1mci2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1mci2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="agjb5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="agjb5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agjb5-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Racism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="abln6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="abln6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="abln6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioural traits, corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fibqj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fibqj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fibqj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2mdd3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2mdd3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2mdd3-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bigot: </span></span><span data-offset-key="2mdd3-0-1"><span data-text="true">A person who refuses to discuss, consider or listen to, beliefs or theories contrary to his or her own.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2cte2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2cte2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2cte2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="994tn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="994tn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="994tn-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">La-La Land:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ee6at-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ee6at-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ee6at-0-0"><span data-text="true">Term suggesting a person is out of their mind.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6ujc3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ujc3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6ujc3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dicv5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dicv5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dicv5-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Skid-Row-on-Sea:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2jso-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2jso-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2jso-0-0"><span data-text="true">A political constituency in a deprived area.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a9ehn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a9ehn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a9ehn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="acplk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="acplk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="acplk-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Dystopia, Distopian</span></span><span data-offset-key="acplk-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span data-offset-key="acplk-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">or </span></span><span data-offset-key="acplk-0-3" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Cacotopia</span></span><span data-offset-key="acplk-0-4" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9pe9q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9pe9q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9pe9q-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. Dystopian rulers are brutal and dedicated to the point of fanaticism. A government that is brutal or uncaring.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3b23q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3b23q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3b23q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="at4sb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="at4sb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="at4sb-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Shapeshifting:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c0heb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c0heb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c0heb-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">Is the ability to physically transform through the use of demonic manipulation, sorcery and spells. Other forms of witchcraft are available.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="24vgr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="24vgr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="24vgr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5v7s0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5v7s0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5v7s0-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Existential Threat:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="frsgv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frsgv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="frsgv-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a threat to something’s very existence, when the continued being of something is at stake or in danger. It is used to describe threats to actual living things as well to nonliving thing things, such as a country or an ideology.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frsgv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="frsgv-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2tcqp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2tcqp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2tcqp-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="2tcqp-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span data-offset-key="2tcqp-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">The existential threat posed by nuclear weapons or climate change.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cm2ch-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cm2ch-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cm2ch-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="92va9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="92va9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="92va9-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Populism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="19vk2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19vk2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="19vk2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Political ideas and activities that are intended to get the support of ordinary people by offering them what they want. But are unlikely to deliver.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1apl6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1apl6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1apl6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b6tmm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b6tmm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b6tmm-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Populist:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a6b1f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a6b1f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a6b1f-0-0"><span data-text="true">An elite politician, who covertly appeals to unsuspecting people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups:</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a6b1f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a6b1f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4i3e6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4i3e6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4i3e6-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="4i3e6-0-1"><span data-text="true">Their ideas are simple populism - promises and pledges of tax cuts and higher wages.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fh4t3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fh4t3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fh4t3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6nqjh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6nqjh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6nqjh-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Neo-populism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="frhqe-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frhqe-0-0"><span data-offset-key="frhqe-0-0"><span data-text="true">A variant of populism in the context of globalisation and widespread acceptance of neoliberal policies.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="erv5f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="erv5f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="erv5f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7gciq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7gciq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7gciq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Conspiracy Theories:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6tttq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6tttq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6tttq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Usually when individuals and groups deny the accepted consensus or issues that cannot be proven using historical or pseudo-scientific methodologies.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9rjlj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9rjlj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9rjlj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4tair-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4tair-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4tair-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Authoritarianism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ermg7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ermg7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ermg7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is considered a core concept of fascism and scholars agree that a fascist regime is foremost an authoritarian form of government.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9q08r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9q08r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9q08r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7dkfm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7dkfm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7dkfm-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Neo-liberalism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4ls9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ls9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4ls9-0-0"><span data-text="true">An ideology and policy model that emphasizes the value of free market competition. Although there is considerable debate as to the defining features of neo-liberal thought and practice, it is most commonly associated with laissez-faire economics.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ls9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4ls9-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2oqdv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2oqdv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2oqdv-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="2oqdv-0-1"><span data-text="true">Naomi Klein offers a largely negative definition of neo-liberalism, arguing that the three policy pillars of neo-liberalism are, privatisation of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4rckf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4rckf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4rckf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8eva-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8eva-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8eva-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Capitalism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fudah-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fudah-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fudah-0-0"><span data-text="true">An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ddnrl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ddnrl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ddnrl-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8srj2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8srj2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8srj2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Democracy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="27omm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="27omm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="27omm-0-0"><span data-text="true">A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e7a7q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e7a7q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e7a7q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="71h35-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71h35-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71h35-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Chumocrasy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="76dm9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="76dm9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="76dm9-0-0"><span data-text="true">A derogatory term for a ruling elite. That is made up of people from the same social background who went to the same public schools and universities. Who know each other socially. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="76dm9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="76dm9-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2cvdt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2cvdt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2cvdt-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example:</span></span><span data-offset-key="2cvdt-0-1"><span data-text="true"> If the United Kingdom has political problems, they are caused by the chumocracy in Westminster.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6bcth-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6bcth-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6bcth-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5oimr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5oimr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5oimr-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Establishment:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="36qdv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="36qdv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="36qdv-0-0"><span data-text="true">When important and powerful people control a country or an organisation, especially those who support the existing political situation.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3mls1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mls1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3mls1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b621b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b621b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b621b-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Adversarial system:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3fcp6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3fcp6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3fcp6-0-0"><span data-text="true">The system of law, as exists in the Anglo-American world, is where an issue is argued in court by two opposing sides, the prosecutor or plaintiff, and the defence.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3dqj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3dqj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3dqj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ak5jj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ak5jj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ak5jj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Inquisitorial system:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3r1ph-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3r1ph-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3r1ph-0-0"><span data-text="true">Where a judge or panel of judges call evidence and interrogate witnesses, as exists in many European countries.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6ltht-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ltht-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6ltht-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9k3rc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9k3rc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9k3rc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Amicus curiae:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9pemd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9pemd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9pemd-0-0"><span data-text="true">Latin for ‘</span></span><span data-offset-key="9pemd-0-1" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">friend of the court</span></span><span data-offset-key="9pemd-0-2"><span data-text="true">’. A party, who is granted permission by an appellate court to be involved in proceedings. Even though it was not directly involved in the original case.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cc1h4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cc1h4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cc1h4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e9oap-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e9oap-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e9oap-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Ad Hominem:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2jnbi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2jnbi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2jnbi-0-0"><span data-text="true">A Latin term that refers to arguments, most of which are fallacious. Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion to some irrelevant issue.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f6mpp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f6mpp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f6mpp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6rghj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6rghj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6rghj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Accord:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5olat-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5olat-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5olat-0-0"><span data-text="true">A diplomatic agreement that does not have the same binding force as a treaty.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e0ga5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e0ga5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0ga5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5i0ka-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5i0ka-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5i0ka-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Dead Cat:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4u7fs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4u7fs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4u7fs-0-0"><span data-text="true">This is something said or done to divert attention away from the current conversation. So let us suppose you are losing a political argument. The facts are overwhelmingly against you, the more people focus on the reality, the worse it is for you and your case.” Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre described as “Throwing a dead cat on the table.”</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4u7fs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4u7fs-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="65n0l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="65n0l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="65n0l-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="65n0l-0-1"><span data-text="true">“</span></span><span data-offset-key="65n0l-0-2" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the table and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point is that everyone will shout, “Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!” In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat. Which is now the thing you want them to talk about and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.</span></span><span data-offset-key="65n0l-0-3"><span data-text="true">” Boris Johnson, 'This Cap on Bankers’ Bonuses is Like a Dead Cat – Pure Distraction', The Telegraph, March 3, 2013.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cpjjr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cpjjr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cpjjr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="39kr1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="39kr1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="39kr1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sheeples or Judas Goat.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="biid5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="biid5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="biid5-0-0"><span data-text="true">A derogatory term that highlights the herd behaviour of people by likening them to sheep, a herd animal. The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to any suggestion. A term of derision is used to describe people who are easily led or follow blindly. People are compared to sheep in being docile, somewhat naïve and foolish, or easily led.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="biid5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="biid5-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dn770-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dn770-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dn770-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="dn770-0-1"><span data-text="true">Like the Judas Goat which is trained to walk a flock of sheep towards the slaughter man. People acquiesce and follow on without any further thought.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fvuln-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fvuln-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fvuln-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1abku-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1abku-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1abku-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Scapegoat:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="63uj6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="63uj6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="63uj6-0-0"><span data-text="true">A person or thing that is blamed for something bad that someone else has done. Politicians have often used a scapegoat for the global economic crisis.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5cq79-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5cq79-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5cq79-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5fpqd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5fpqd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5fpqd-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Cogent:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d0lai-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d0lai-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d0lai-0-0"><span data-text="true">An argument or case that is clear, logical, and convincing.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3jbr5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3jbr5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3jbr5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f5rpc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f5rpc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5rpc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Hegemony:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fh4dq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fh4dq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fh4dq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fh4dq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fh4dq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d1t7n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d1t7n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d1t7n-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Example: </span></span><span data-offset-key="d1t7n-0-1"><span data-text="true">The British Empire comprises the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cb5i8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cb5i8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cb5i8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6et2i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6et2i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6et2i-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">SPAD:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="27rps-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="27rps-0-0"><span data-offset-key="27rps-0-0"><span data-text="true">Special Advisor - a person whose job is to give political advice to government ministers. They are often referred to as 'SpAds' or 'Spads'. SPADS have become a frequent career stage for young politicians, before being elected Members of Parliament, which has attracted criticism in recent years.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2gsvo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2gsvo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2gsvo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3hskg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hskg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3hskg-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Troll:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="71o9l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71o9l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71o9l-0-0"><span data-text="true">To antagonise others online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, offensive comments or other disruptive content. To harass, and criticize, especially by provocatively disparaging or mocking public statements, social media postings or acts.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="amh91-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="amh91-0-0"><span data-offset-key="amh91-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="39t3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="39t3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="39t3-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Memes:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6fpmf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6fpmf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6fpmf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Discrete units of knowledge, are often portrayed in pictures, as jokes and in cartoons. Memes are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes, in the gene pool. Cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful social media memes.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="auaic-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="auaic-0-0"><span data-offset-key="auaic-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2nch2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2nch2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2nch2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Snowflake:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1d5ob-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1d5ob-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1d5ob-0-0"><span data-text="true">On social media, a justice warrior who is too sensitive and too politically correct.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="amrth-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="amrth-0-0"><span data-offset-key="amrth-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="59lv8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="59lv8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="59lv8-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Conflation:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="98ia7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="98ia7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="98ia7-0-0"><span data-text="true">The merging of two subjects, into one, is often used as an intentional, but feigned error.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5a1ec-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5a1ec-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5a1ec-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4a3k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4a3k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4a3k-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Whataboutery:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8p20i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8p20i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8p20i-0-0"><span data-text="true">The technique or practice of responding to an accusation by raising a different issue.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4bj8v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4bj8v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4bj8v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="di2b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="di2b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="di2b-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bipartisan:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e7rca-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e7rca-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e7rca-0-0"><span data-text="true">An effort that brings together both political parties in mutual agreement.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="erm8u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="erm8u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="erm8u-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7g5oj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7g5oj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7g5oj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Partisan:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3roha-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3roha-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3roha-0-0"><span data-text="true">Something that only works toward the goals of one political party, and often works against the goals of the other.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bu07q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bu07q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bu07q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1f6ep-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1f6ep-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1f6ep-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Public Purse:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8pblg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8pblg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8pblg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Money collected by government in the form of taxes.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ddg8u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ddg8u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ddg8u-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="aqikc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aqikc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aqikc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Tree Hugger:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bp03t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bp03t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bp03t-0-0"><span data-text="true">A derogatory term for an environmentalist.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2uskq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2uskq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2uskq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c1c32-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c1c32-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c1c32-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Karma:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="hovi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hovi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hovi-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect. According to the theory of Karma, what happens to a person, happens because they caused it with their actions. Someone will ultimately pay for their actions.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fmtud-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fmtud-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fmtud-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="an3nj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="an3nj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="an3nj-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Councillor:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dapm7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dapm7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dapm7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Name for a locally elected official.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ddc7m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ddc7m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ddc7m-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b6fj5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b6fj5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b6fj5-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Public Servant:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="169jl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="169jl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="169jl-0-0"><span data-text="true">An official but unelected person such as a Police officer.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="56h3f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="56h3f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="56h3f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2ngus-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ngus-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2ngus-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Reform:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cn907-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cn907-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cn907-0-0"><span data-text="true">To change a law or a system to make it better, worse or more efficient.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bhb7o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bhb7o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bhb7o-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fgr0k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fgr0k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fgr0k-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Lame Duck:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ummv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ummv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ummv-0-0"><span data-text="true">A politician who is considered ineffective, either because he or she was recently elected out of office or announced retirement.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dijsn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dijsn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dijsn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3nna9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3nna9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3nna9-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Woke:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="47ctg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="47ctg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="47ctg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Woke is increasingly used as shorthand for - I'm awake now!</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fhj83-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fhj83-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fhj83-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2qd6p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2qd6p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2qd6p-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Ballot:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8c0rn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8c0rn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8c0rn-0-0"><span data-text="true">Voting form or postal vote.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e4m3h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e4m3h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e4m3h-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bucm6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bucm6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bucm6-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Neck And Neck:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8oj5i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8oj5i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8oj5i-0-0"><span data-text="true">No clear division between two or more candidates.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7et7l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7et7l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7et7l-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6q63d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6q63d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6q63d-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">To Close To Call:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="25mdj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="25mdj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="25mdj-0-0"><span data-text="true">When votes cast for each political party are very close in numbers.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5of9l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5of9l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5of9l-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3ipvg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ipvg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3ipvg-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Landslide:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9inlv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9inlv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9inlv-0-0"><span data-text="true">When one party has a clear majority over all the others.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eb434-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eb434-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eb434-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5tgbp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5tgbp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5tgbp-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Polling Station:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="d3egn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d3egn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d3egn-0-0"><span data-text="true">Place where you can cast your vote within a constituency.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7hd2b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7hd2b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7hd2b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="278rs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="278rs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="278rs-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Poll:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2qjpt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2qjpt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2qjpt-0-0"><span data-text="true">A group of people asked (before the election) about who they are going to vote for.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="527d9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="527d9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="527d9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6080f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6080f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6080f-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Exit Poll:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5i5oi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5i5oi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5i5oi-0-0"><span data-text="true">A group of people asked (after casting their vote) about who they voted for.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ebg69-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ebg69-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ebg69-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><h1 class="oo9gr5id o0t2es00 knj5qynh n851cfcs" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bdva3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bdva3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bdva3-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Westminster Waffle:</span></span></div></h1><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5l01q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5l01q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5l01q-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">House of Commons:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="da8sm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="da8sm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="da8sm-0-0"><span data-text="true">The House of Commons, is often referred to simply as the Commons, is the lower house and is the primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It meets in the Palace of Westminster. A stark contrast between the privileges of the ruling class and the dreary existence of the working class.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="njqj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="njqj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="njqj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6u5ku-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6u5ku-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6u5ku-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">B</span></span><span data-offset-key="6u5ku-0-1" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">alance of power:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8r4q7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8r4q7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8r4q7-0-0"><span data-text="true">The leverage of a small party in being able to give, support to a large, albeit still minority party, to allow it to have a majority on a vote.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="aponb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aponb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aponb-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3eaqa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3eaqa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3eaqa-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">First-past-the-post:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9ooul-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9ooul-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9ooul-0-0"><span data-text="true">Denotes an electoral system in which a candidate or party is selected by the achievement of a simple highest vote count. There may be votes for other candidates that amount to more votes that the declared winner.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fu74s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fu74s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fu74s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dq2jm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dq2jm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dq2jm-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Proportional-representation:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8p381-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8p381-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8p381-0-0"><span data-text="true">An electoral system in which divisions in an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The essence of such systems is that all votes contribute to the result, not just a plurality, or a bare majority.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1u6lh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1u6lh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1u6lh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="794qp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="794qp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="794qp-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Australian Ballot:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2s8d3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2s8d3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2s8d3-0-0"><span data-text="true">The original name was given to the secret ballot due to the fact it originated there.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9ug6k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9ug6k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9ug6k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="83hjp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="83hjp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="83hjp-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Impeachment:</span></span><span data-offset-key="83hjp-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span data-offset-key="83hjp-0-2"><span data-text="true">Is a process in which the UK parliament may prosecute and try individuals, normally holders of public office, for high treason or other crimes and misdemeanours.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="86mg5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="86mg5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="86mg5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1ob3a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ob3a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ob3a-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Coalition:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3pt5s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pt5s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3pt5s-0-0"><span data-text="true">When two or more political parties come together to form a government.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9giji-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9giji-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9giji-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="681cl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="681cl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="681cl-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">By-Election:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8hr5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8hr5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8hr5-0-0"><span data-text="true">A local election held to fill a suddenly vacated constituency due to death, imprisonment or resignation.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2adnk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2adnk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2adnk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="el3f1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="el3f1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="el3f1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Member of Parliament (MP):</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8kn0n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8kn0n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8kn0n-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the elected representative of the people within a constituency boundary.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c8ibo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c8ibo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c8ibo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3lgrd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3lgrd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3lgrd-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Backbencher:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2725i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2725i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2725i-0-0"><span data-text="true">A member of Parliament (government or opposition) who is not in a leadership role in their party but merely sits literally on the back bench.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2mhab-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2mhab-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2mhab-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ca2sg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ca2sg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ca2sg-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bed-wetter or Wet:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="94goo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="94goo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="94goo-0-0"><span data-text="true">Derogatory term for a politician (usually Tory) who panics easily and shows signs of caving when newer, creative, or more ideological policies their party advocates, start to come under criticism.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fs5ol-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fs5ol-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fs5ol-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4b60r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4b60r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4b60r-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Lame Duck:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="95uoc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="95uoc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="95uoc-0-0"><span data-text="true">A politician who is considered ineffective.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="diofo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="diofo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="diofo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="442pc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="442pc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="442pc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Round Robin:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3rvks-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3rvks-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3rvks-0-0"><span data-text="true">A petition or protest on which the signatures are arranged in a circle in order to conceal the order of signing. - A letter or petition sent among members of a political group, often with comments added by each person in turn.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2kck-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2kck-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2kck-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b2kfq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b2kfq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b2kfq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Lickspittal:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="41k68-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41k68-0-0"><span data-offset-key="41k68-0-0"><span data-text="true">A contemptible, fawning person, or parliamentarian. A servile flatterer or toady.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1j4h9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1j4h9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1j4h9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="25v8c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="25v8c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="25v8c-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Parliamentary Constituency:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a16a3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a16a3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a16a3-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the UK each of the electoral areas called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f3o5p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f3o5p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f3o5p-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8kpjc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8kpjc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8kpjc-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Cabinet of the United Kingdom:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="csnu6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="csnu6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="csnu6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a group in the government, consisting of the highest ranking Ministers of the Crown in Parliament. A committee of the Privy Council, the members include the four Great Offices of State which includes the Prime Minister, who chairs the Cabinet. Other members include the Secretaries of State who each head the government departments.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="80esq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="80esq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="80esq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6cp1j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6cp1j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6cp1j-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Cabinet Office:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e73n7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e73n7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e73n7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Traditionally the Cabinet Office's role was facilitating collective decision-making by the Cabinet, through running and supporting Cabinet-level committees. This is still its principal role, but since the absorption of some of the functions of the Civil Service Department in 1981 the Cabinet Office has also helped to ensure that a wide range of Ministerial priorities are taken forward across Whitehall. It also contains miscellaneous units that do not sit well in other departments. For example: The Historical Section was founded in 1906 as part of the Committee for Imperial Defence and is concerned with Official Histories.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a5amh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a5amh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5amh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3si70-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3si70-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3si70-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Speaker:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ec9ev-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ec9ev-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ec9ev-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Speaker of the House of Commons is the chief officer and highest authority of the House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fgt7j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fgt7j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fgt7j-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="58na4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="58na4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="58na4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Adjournment:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5loos-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5loos-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5loos-0-0"><span data-text="true">Temporary interruption during a parliamentary session.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7u32v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7u32v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7u32v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="evflh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="evflh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="evflh-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Adjournment debate:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dph57-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dph57-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dph57-0-0"><span data-text="true">In this case, MPs have the opportunity to raise specific issues with the relevant minister. The minister then answers directly or, within a specific time, provides a written response, which usually is also published online.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8i0f2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8i0f2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8i0f2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="csht2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="csht2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="csht2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">House of Lords:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e0eru-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e0eru-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0eru-0-0"><span data-text="true">The upper chamber of Great Britain's bicameral legislature (a legislative body having two chambers) Originated in the 11th century when the Anglo-Saxon kings consulted witans (councils) composed of religious leaders and the monarch’s ministers, it emerged as a distinct element of Parliament in the 13th and 14th centuries.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5r6jf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5r6jf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5r6jf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bcqe8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bcqe8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bcqe8-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Peerage (Lord):</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4q0lj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4q0lj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4q0lj-0-0"><span data-text="true">Peerage in the UK is a legal system. Historically appointed (not elected) in some cases hereditary. Comprising various titles and composed of assorted noble ranks.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2aj0c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2aj0c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2aj0c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="erof7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="erof7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="erof7-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Lord Speaker:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3bevu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3bevu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3bevu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Chairs daily business in the House of Lords chamber and is an ambassador for the work of the House of Lords.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fei3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fei3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fei3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><h1 class="oo9gr5id o0t2es00 knj5qynh n851cfcs" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6c0uq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6c0uq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6c0uq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Remembrance Day Poppies.</span></span></div></h1><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1laib-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1laib-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1laib-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Red Poppy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4i0p0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4i0p0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4i0p0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Signifies memorial to the people who died during the first World War and later conflicts.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4i0p0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4i0p0-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="681t2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="681t2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="681t2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">White Poppy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="42sv0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="42sv0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="42sv0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pays tribute to those that died in conflict, but emphasises an ultimate commitment to peace.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="42sv0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="42sv0-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7ip41-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ip41-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ip41-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Black Poppy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bpm6t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bpm6t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bpm6t-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is for remembering people of African, Asian and Caribbean descent who played a part in World War I & II.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bpm6t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bpm6t-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dcaq1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dcaq1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dcaq1-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Purple Poppy:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="79ush-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="79ush-0-0"><span data-offset-key="79ush-0-0"><span data-text="true">Represents the memorial to war animals (dogs, horses pigeons etc) who lost their lives during times of war.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1q58f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1q58f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1q58f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><h1 class="oo9gr5id o0t2es00 knj5qynh n851cfcs" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="drr2g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="drr2g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="drr2g-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Beliefs:</span></span></div></h1><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5qqsh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5qqsh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5qqsh-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Christianity:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9m8pk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9m8pk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9m8pk-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is one of the largest religions around the globe with more than 2.22 billion followers which is more than 31.5% of world’s entire population. It was founded about 2000 years ago in modern day Palestine. Christianity is divided into three major sects named Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dae75-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dae75-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dae75-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="823k7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="823k7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="823k7-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Islam:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="qu6i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qu6i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="qu6i-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the second largest of the major religions of the world having more than 1.5 billion followers. It is one of the fastest growing religions and was founded about 1400 years ago in modern day Saudi Arabia.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8bfgh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8bfgh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8bfgh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7af1p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7af1p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7af1p-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Hinduism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3epsf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3epsf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3epsf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Has 1.05 billion worshipers. It is considered the world’s oldest religion. Most Hindus live in South Asian countries such as India, Nepal and Indonesia. In India alone, it is estimated that 80% of the population is Hindu. Although very little is known about the foundation of Hinduism, it is generally believed that the faith developed over 4,000 years ago.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5stb6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5stb6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5stb6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8heg4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8heg4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8heg4-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Buddhism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="erhm6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="erhm6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="erhm6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is a leading religion around the globe with more than 488 million followers. It was founded by Gautama Siddhartha 2500 years ago in India. Buddhism is divided into three major sects named Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="93do6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="93do6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="93do6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7fn18-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7fn18-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7fn18-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Shintoism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fat9a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fat9a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fat9a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is based in Japan, with 104 million followers worldwide. Its beginnings date back to the eighth century. It is estimated that 80% of Japanese citizens belong to Shintoism, and the country is home to 80,000 Shinto shrines. A unique feature of faith is that believers do not have to declare their allegiance to the Shinto religion.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5hj86-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5hj86-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5hj86-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9oepq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9oepq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9oepq-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Taoism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1p98h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1p98h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1p98h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Was born in China about two thousand years ago. Also known as Taoism, this religion is associated with a belief in occultism and metaphysics. Most of the Taoist supporters live in Asian countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8srur-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8srur-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8srur-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8lip-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8lip-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8lip-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sikhism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="b63rr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b63rr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b63rr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is the world’s fifth largest religion having more than 28 million worshipers. It came into existence 500 years ago. This religion combined the beliefs from Islam and Hinduism. The majority of its followers is living in the Indian Punjab province.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8rad2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rad2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8rad2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="22b2s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="22b2s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="22b2s-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Judaism:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1h6lc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1h6lc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1h6lc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Has a long and rich history, and dates back to the eighth century BC. It has 13 million followers. The religion originated in the Middle East and has three major branches. These include Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reformed Judaism.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7gjkf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7gjkf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7gjkf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><h1 class="oo9gr5id o0t2es00 knj5qynh n851cfcs" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="dbclc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dbclc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dbclc-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Covid Quotes:</span></span></div></h1><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="27eh3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="27eh3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="27eh3-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Advisor:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c7nlb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7nlb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c7nlb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Someone to give you advice from behind a plexiglass screen; also, the type of facial covering that makes you look like a bottled head.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2pptf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2pptf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2pptf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1cpsv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1cpsv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1cpsv-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Antibacterial:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="i68j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="i68j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="i68j-0-0"><span data-text="true">A treatment for the complaint known as skin.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="65oad-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="65oad-0-0"><span data-offset-key="65oad-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cb5vh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cb5vh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cb5vh-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Bugle smudger:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="11ld7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="11ld7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="11ld7-0-0"><span data-text="true">The facial equivalent of the budgie smuggler; a device to render the voice indistinct (and don’t even think about lip reading); a prophylactic for the promiscuously opinionated.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="856sk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="856sk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="856sk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cmsql-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cmsql-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cmsql-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">D:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5jt68-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5jt68-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5jt68-0-0"><span data-text="true">An essential immunity-boosting vitamin provided by the sun. Not found naturally in the UK and is banned in Liverpool.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="6tgr9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6tgr9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6tgr9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8llqr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8llqr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8llqr-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Economic boom:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="49bj2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="49bj2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="49bj2-0-0"><span data-text="true">We just blew up the economy.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4f8qj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4f8qj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4f8qj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="306sp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="306sp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="306sp-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Flattening the curve:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9jkb4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9jkb4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9jkb4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Recommended exercise regime for the ‘horizontally challenged'. Boris’ silhouette following his brush with Covid.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="4a5rv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4a5rv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4a5rv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="brjok-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="brjok-0-0"><span data-offset-key="brjok-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Herd immunity:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cf94h-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cf94h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cf94h-0-0"><span data-text="true">The combination of hygge and authoritarianism that Swedes excel at.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3t635-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3t635-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3t635-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="kbv2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="kbv2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="kbv2-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Immunity:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1rm47-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1rm47-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1rm47-0-0"><span data-text="true">Imperviousness to reason, particularly when applied to politicians.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3u3di-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3u3di-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3u3di-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="a1ejl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a1ejl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a1ejl-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Lockdown:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2b227-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2b227-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2b227-0-0"><span data-text="true">A state in which millionaires, the professional classes and violent protestors thrive, bugger the rest. A golden age for freeloaders and jobsworths.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2a5pa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2a5pa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2a5pa-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7nc2b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7nc2b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7nc2b-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Mask</span></span><span data-offset-key="7nc2b-0-1"><span data-text="true">:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1pdpp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1pdpp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1pdpp-0-0"><span data-text="true">A face covering that makes us indistinguishable from criminals. A signal of being right-on politically.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="54moj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="54moj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="54moj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="blt02-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="blt02-0-0"><span data-offset-key="blt02-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Remote:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1nmkq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1nmkq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1nmkq-0-0"><span data-text="true">How we’re all working, communicating and feeling.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="ded69-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ded69-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ded69-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eehbd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eehbd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eehbd-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Rounding the curve:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9sdos-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9sdos-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9sdos-0-0"><span data-text="true">A euphemism for disappearing over the horizon.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="f5eke-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f5eke-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5eke-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="200m0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="200m0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="200m0-0-0"><span data-text="true">‘</span></span><span data-offset-key="200m0-0-1" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">R0’ number:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3v1h7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3v1h7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3v1h7-0-0"><span data-text="true">The number of friends who are still prepared to meet you.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="1k47n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1k47n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1k47n-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="euqjl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="euqjl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="euqjl-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Second wave:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="bq17n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bq17n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bq17n-0-0"><span data-text="true">Saying goodbye again; the first time to your prospects, the second time to your children’s prospects.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="cca7d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cca7d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cca7d-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="e8fg1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e8fg1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e8fg1-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Social distancing:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="8nsd0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8nsd0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8nsd0-0-0"><span data-text="true">The distance at which we feel comfortable before someone intrudes into our personal space. Varies by culture. In Britain, this is roughly the distance between our front door and the hedge or wall.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9v5ev-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9v5ev-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9v5ev-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="7rkg2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7rkg2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7rkg2-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Vaccine:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="fb9v3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fb9v3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fb9v3-0-0"><span data-text="true">A joke about looking for a black cat in a dark room, especially if the cat’s not there.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="tjgf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="tjgf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="tjgf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3bpcb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3bpcb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3bpcb-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Yardstick:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="eve2a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eve2a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eve2a-0-0"><span data-text="true">A literal one-metre rule to measure correct social distancing of 2 metres. The correct usage is to press it against your body, spin around to face anyone approaching, and thrust out your arm in said person’s direction. Failure to make contact means they get off with a warning.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="c8aan-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c8aan-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c8aan-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="2bc1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2bc1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2bc1-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Zoom:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="9uq7s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9uq7s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9uq7s-0-0"><span data-text="true">A technology that paradoxically makes you further apart while claiming to bring you together.</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="5dtkj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5dtkj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5dtkj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="3fkq2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3fkq2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3fkq2-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Sources:</span></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="9no3o" data-offset-key="69k0o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="69k0o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="69k0o-0-0"><span data-text="true">Wikipedea, The Cambridge English Dictionary, The Urban Dictionary, Wiktionary, Lexico, Oxford English Dictionary, Word Hippo, Oxford Learners Dictionary, and my insane sense of humour.</span></span></div></div></div>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-48438290512739798212021-02-12T09:03:00.004+00:002021-02-12T09:03:51.897+00:00<p> </p><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="dati1w0a ihqw7lf3 hv4rvrfc ecm0bbzt" id="jsc_c_b3"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><h4 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl n851cfcs" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 o3w64lxj b2s5l15y knj5qynh oo9gr5id"><span><b><span><i>Covid-19 Lockdown Ramblings:</i></span></b></span></span></h4><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">I'm
sat in the kitchen, surveying the cupboards while trying to decide what
I will have for my next meal. My diet has become a bit restricted, by
only doing a once every three week shop, rather than my normal twice a
week. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">I
only have a few wilted potatoes, half a dozen carrots, a large shallot,
a red onion, half a clove of sprouting garlic, and a red pepper, as
'fresh' veg on offer. So it looked like I was in need of some culinary
inspiration. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">Had
a look on-line, and surprisingly I found a recipe for a vegetable soup
that included red pepper, onion, garlic and carrots. I included the
three small potatoes to the mix for good measure. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">All
chopped up and placed in a pan, with a couple of vegetable stock cubes
brought to the boil, then left to simmer for an hour on a low flame.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">When
it was ready, I drained off the liquid, and put the cooked vegetables
into a blender. A few quick spins saw them all turned into a soft paste
before being put back into the pan. Then I added a couple of spoons of
vegetable gravy granules to the liquid in the other pan. Then poured it
on top of the vegetable paste. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">I
had already toasted a couple of slices of bread, then flash fried them
in a bit of olive oil to create some croutons. As I sat down to eat, a
long forgotten memory returned.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">Some
65 years ago, I had returned home from school, I was soon going out
onto our playground - known locally as the piece. Football and cricket
would have been the game of choice, or rounders if any girls showed up.
It must have been summer, because I remember that some kids had
their wellington tops turned down. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">But I digress, one of my mates got called in for tea, and I was invited in as well. We had "<span><i>oxo pobs</i></span>"
which consisted of bread broken up like croutons into small pieces and
then had oxo gravy poured over the top. I had never had it before, I
quite enjoyed it, though it tasted different to my usual fare. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">Later when I returned home, mother said where have you been? Dad whistled for you twice. (<span><i>We had a signal, dad would whistle two sharp blasts, and we would answer with a whistle back</i></span>.)
Then make our way home for tea. I told mum, that I had had my tea at my
mates home. And that I must have been inside when dad whistled. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">A
few days later, mum asked what I wanted for tea. I said 'Oxo Pobs', she
looked askance, and asked me where I had eaten oxo pobs before? I said
at my friends house. She was aghast, and said, never tell anyone that
you have ever eaten oxo pobs for your tea. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">Dad
was a coal miner, so we were always warm (home coal) plus he had a
second part time job. Plus we never went hungry because dad had a very
big allotment where he kept chickens, ducks and pigs. Plus he grew most
of our vegetables. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id"> </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id">Being
the youngest born and mother being a housewife, though she also had a part-time job. I pretty much had her undivided attention, until I
attained school age. She wasn't a snob, but she had certain standards. I
was the first in the brood to go to University, and they were both proud
of that. Dad died in 1995 and Mother passed in 1996. I'm sure she would
forgive me for saying out loud I've' eaten oxo pobs! </span></div></span></div></div>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-8944704374537649792019-02-02T08:15:00.002+00:002019-02-02T08:15:17.199+00:00£6.85m to British Canoeing<br /><b><i>Caroline Lucas MP</i></b> Green, Brighton<br /><br />To ask the Secretary of State for <i>Digital, Culture, Media and Sport</i>, what recent steps he has taken to support increased access for canoeists to rivers and waterways in England. <br /><br />
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<i><b>Mims Davies MP</b></i> The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for <i>Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.</i></div>
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The
Government’s sport strategy, Sporting Future, encourages and promotes
outdoor recreation. Use of our waterways by all can be a creative and
fun way to engage with the natural world and to stay healthy.</div>
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Sport England is actively engaged with <i>British Canoeing</i> and the <span class="hi">Canal</span> and <span class="hi">River Trust</span>
to get more people from all backgrounds active. In addition Sport
England is providing £6.85m to British Canoeing for the period between
2017 to 2021.</div>
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The ‘public rights of navigation’ issue around access to waterways is dealt with by the <i>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</i> and they are currently working with British Canoeing to consider solutions to access disputes.</div>
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Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-22131584084211436112017-10-14T10:42:00.001+01:002017-12-26T18:15:55.481+00:00Inginuity and Inventions.<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
The English language is
often confusing, even to the English themselves. The British and the
Americans are often described as two nations divided by a common
language. Never is it more so than in the Yanks Humor or as we Brits
prefer to spell it Humour.
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Here stick your Moniker
on this, is how we might ask someone to append their signature. Ah,
Monica – give us a tune old girl, is how we make a play on
someone's name. But its not only reserved for the girls. Taking the
Michael or the Mick, is how we describe someone having a laugh at our
expense. A proper Charlie, is how we might describe someone making a
fool of themselves. A Rupert, is how the soldier likes to describe a
senior rank.</div>
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However, sometimes
whole nations are targeted as the butt of all jokes. For the Brits is
the Irish and for the Americans it seems its the Polish. So today I have
extended British coverage to include the Swiss. This is because we have a
Swiss owned caravan parked next door. The adorable German speaking
couple seem to have taken humbridge. Because we parked our motor home
to one side of our allocated plot. So our motor home is actually
casting a shadow on the edge of their plot. On the other side of us
is a delightful German couple who have been supplying us with - ad hoc -
translation services. My command of German is limited to the stuff I read about in children's comics as a kid.</div>
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So today, '<i>Herr Gruber</i>'
turns up again and suggest that we should comply to his request and
move the motorhome two metres further over. So, being me, I have complied
with the camp commandants request. We are now parked right on the edge of
our plot and much closer to his sun lounge which is now totally in
the shade. Well gosh and golly, I do believe Gruber is even more
miffed. So while Gruber is busy
strutting up and down complaining. I said, to the German couple next
door.
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'<i>Did you know that the
Germans discovered Kepler's laws of planetary motion and discovered
Goethe's Theory of Colours. The Germans also invented the rocket
engine. At the same time in the UK Marconi invented radio, Sir Frank
Whittle invented the Jet engine and Sir Isaac Newton discovered
Gravity. While the Swiss claim to fame is to have invented the Cuckoo clock.</i>'
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I thought he was going
to die laughing. He even went round the site sharing it with all the
other Germans. Now, I keep getting thumbs up and cuckoo calls
whenever Gruber is around. The Swiss guy is now totally perplexed and
wondering WTF is going on.</div>
Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-26103642586478319202017-10-11T16:36:00.002+01:002017-10-14T14:42:17.498+01:00Workshop Tools<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 16px;">To the uninitiated the boatyard workshop can be an intimidating place. A place that is full of tools you may not know what to do with. To help, here's a helpful explanation of some common workshop tools and their everyday uses. This is a short inventory of equipment that every well stocked boatyard workshop should have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Drill Press:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your mug of tea across the room. Denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Abrasive Wire Wheel:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench at the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers. All done in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh,Merde."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Skill Saw:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Contrary to its name, this is a portable cutting tool often used to make all kinds of engineering studs too short.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Hand Pliers:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. This is an often bloodstained hand tool, used to begin the process of rounding off bolt heads. (see Mole Grips)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Belt Sander:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Hack Saw:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">One of a large family of hand cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion and the more you attempt to influence its direction, the more dismal your project becomes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Mole-Grips:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. (See Hand Pliers)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Oxyacetylene Cutting Torch:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your workshop which are not already on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the tiller hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Table Saw:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood or metal projectiles for testing wall integrity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Hydraulic Floor Jack:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Used for lowering a boat to the ground after you have installed your new tiller. Whilst at the same time trapping the jack handle firmly under the base plate.<br /><br /><i><b>Second Hydraulic Floor Jack:</b></i><br />Used for lifting a boat off the ground to free the trapped jack handle from under the base plate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Band Saw:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A large stationary power saw primarily used in most workshops to cut good steel stock. Usually into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.<i><b> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Two-Ton Engine Hoist:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect prior to beginning lifting operations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Phillips Cross Cut Screwdriver: </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Normally used to stab through vacuum seals and prising under paint tin lids. Also used for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt. Can also be used as the name implies, to strip out Phillips Screw heads.<i><b> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Straight Flat Bladed Screwdriver:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A tool often used for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and at the same time butchering your palms.<i><b> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Pry Bar:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A tool used to crumple and scratch any painted metal surrounding. Usually when removing a stubborn jubilee clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace the rusty cheap item with another non rusty cheap item.<i><b> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Hose and Piper Cutter:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A tool generally used to make flexible hoses or fixed pipes too short for the available gap.<i><b> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Ball Pein Hammer or Dudley Screwdriver:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts, located adjacent the object we are trying to hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Stanley Knife:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door. Works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, into workshop cleaning rage. Usually achieved while the clothes are still in use.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>The Electric Hand Drill:</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px;">This machine is used to spin pop rivets in a hole until the earth comes to an end. It will also spin out of whatever hole and make a crazy pattern on whatever you don't want marred faster than you can blink your eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>A B*stard Tool:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Any handy tool such as a metal file that you grab and throw across the workshop whilst at the same time yelling "B*stard” at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need to continue with the job at hand. Also known as balm or mechanic's lube. Usually applied verbally in hindsight, which somehow eases those pains and indignities following our every deficiency in foresight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Workshop Light:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under boats. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that the apprentice can exchange them. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Air Compressor:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts which were last over tightened 50 years ago by someone at Liverpool Boats that neatly rounds off their heads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>A Socket Set:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A precision engineered set of tools still supplied in Metric and Imperial sizes guaranteed not to fit any nut or bolt that requires urgent rotation. Whitworth Sockets were once used for working in older British workshops. They are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you've been searching for the last hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Sump Plug Wrench:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A specialist and much sought after tool for enabling you to direct hot and dirty engine oil down your sleeve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Hand Spanner:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Sometimes used as a colloquial term of derision. The hand spanner pretends to fit then will slip under maximum torque ensuring maximum damage to bolt heads rendering them knackered to the point that no other device will grip them. Also extremely good for damaging knuckles, often resulting in maximum blood loss and infection when mixed with grease and oil. (see Sump Plug Wrench) Damage = Torque squared i.e. (d) = (t)2 N.B. It is normally safe to fling spanners across the engine room. Only the curved ones will return according to Sod's law of the boomerang effect. (See Socket Set)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><b>Circlip Pliers:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">A specialist service tool for releasing captive circlips back into the wild.<br /><br /><i><b>First Aid Box:</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Where the tea and coffee are usually kept. </span></div>
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Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-28364612529306716972017-09-15T16:36:00.000+01:002018-08-23T16:36:55.367+01:00Late Summer Cruise 2017 ❸<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Late Summer Cruise 2017 (3)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cambrian Wharf to Merry Hill<br /><br /><b>Date:</b> 15/09/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather cold but no rain.<br /><br /> <b>Morning:</b> Late start after doing a few preparations.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Weather improved and at times was quite warm. We just chugged along </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heading
Windmill End via Netherton Tunnel. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Afternoon:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After Windmill end this is new water for us so we took our time and enjoyed the trip. </span></span>The
sun was quite hot for most of the trip. Arrived
late afternoon and found plenty of mooring space.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Evening:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Moved up the moorings because the solar panels were mainly in the shadows of trees for most of the time.<br /><br /><b>Wildlife:</b> Rat and Grey Squirrel.<br /><br /><b>Birds:</b>
House Sparrow, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Rook, Starling, Blackbird, Mallard, Pied Wagtail,
Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coot, Moorhen, Canadian Goose,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Buzzard, Thrush,
Herring Gull, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
Gull, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern and Jay.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> <b>Butterflies:</b> Meadow Brown, Common White, Small White and Comma.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Bats:</b> Pipistrelle, Daubentons,<br /><br /><b>Dragonflies:</b> Four Spot Chaser.<br /><br /><b>Today's Total:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles: 12.6<br />Locks: 0<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 3<br />Pump Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 5.6</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Accumulated Total:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">Miles: 3032 .1<br />Locks: 1888<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels: 85<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3961.5</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-6863410257248730472017-09-14T16:35:00.000+01:002018-08-23T16:37:15.646+01:00Late Summer Cruise 2017 ❷<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Late Summer Cruise 2017 (2)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oouzel Street Loop to Cambrian Wharf<br /><br /><b>Date:</b> 14/09/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather cold but no rain.<br /><br /> <b>Morning:</b> Short cruise to improve sun availability to Solar panels.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Birds:</b>
House Sparrow, Magpie, Carrion Crow,Blackbird, Mallard, Moorhen, Canadian Goose,
Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
Gull and Black Headed Gull.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Today's Total:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles: 0.6<br />Locks: 0<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 0<br />Pump Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours:0.6</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Accumulated Total:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">Miles: 3032 .7<br />Locks: 1888<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels: 85<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3962.1</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-16410652481206629442017-09-13T16:33:00.000+01:002018-08-23T16:34:31.439+01:00Late Summer Cruise 2017 ❶<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Late Summer Cruise 2017 (1)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hawne Basin</span></span> to Oouzel Street Loop.<br /><br /><b>Date:</b> 13/09/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather cold and odd short showers. By morning it was a uniform grey sky but no rain.<br /><br /> <b>Morning:</b> Late start after doing a few preparations.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Weather improved and at times was quite warm. We just chugged along </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heading
for Gosty Tunnel and then via Windmill End heading for to Netherton Tunnel.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Afternoon:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
sun was quite hot by lunch time. Which coincided with the start of a 3 hour chug into the centre of Birmingham and Oouzel Street Loop. Arrived late afternoon and filled the last place available on the loop.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Evening:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Noticed that the solar panels were mainly in the shadows for most of the time.<br /><br /><b>Wildlife:</b> Rat and Grey Squirrel.<br /><br /><b>Birds:</b>
House Sparrow, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Rook, Starling, Blackbird, Mallard, Pied Wagtail,
Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coot, Moorhen, Canadian Goose,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Buzzard, Thrush,
Herring Gull, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> <b>Butterflies:</b> Meadow Brown, Common White, Small White and Comma.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Bats:</b> Pipistrelle, Daubentons,<br /><br /><b>Dragonflies:</b> Four Spot Chaser.<br /><br /><b>Today's Total:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles: 12.6<br />Locks: 0<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 3<br />Pump Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours:5.6</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Accumulated Total:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">Miles: 3032 .1<br />Locks: 1888<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels: 85<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3961.5</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-23818379574239351042017-08-23T22:07:00.001+01:002017-08-23T22:07:29.760+01:00Pet Passport<br />We have a Pet passport that we use every year for EU travel. Our dog Poppy is a seasoned traveller and is now due for her first rabies booster. I thought it might be useful information for anyone else thinking of taking a pet abroad. So first of all, it's only cats, dogs and ferrets that have to have a EU pet passport and strictly speaking they only apply to travel to and from the rest of the EU.<br />
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There are other countries that have accepted the EU pet passports regime. The full up-to-date lists are on the <b><a href="https://www.gov.uk/take-pet-abroad/listed-and-unlisted-countries" target="_blank">Government's website</a>.</b><br />Take your pet to an issuing vet with its existing vaccination and health records. Your pet will need to have already been chipped and then vaccinated against rabies. You must also keep the vaccinations updated <br /><br />If your pet has any vaccinations or treatment abroad, make sure the vet enters those details into the passport too. This is most likely going to be when treating a dog for tapeworms, which is compulsory when returning to the UK from all countries except Finland, Norway, Ireland or Malta. <br /><br />It's worth pointing out that all dogs born since April 2016 have to be chipped before they are two months old anyway. So make sure it's right! If something isn't right, your pet could be placed into quarantine when you re-enter the UK, so it's worth double-checking everything. <br /><br />Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-51453845898858237642017-08-22T09:11:00.001+01:002017-08-22T09:44:18.235+01:00Accidents Happen<div data-contents="true" style="text-align: justify;">
Accidents happen, how many times have you heard that?<br /><br />Well I think we are all aware of that little epithet. Usually as someone scrapes their hire-boat along your gunwale. Shouting falsehoods like 'Its a Contact Sport' which it will be if I can get my hands on you. I discovered long ago, that accidents start quite early on in life, usually around the time of conception. Though any memories of that event are thankfully vague.<br /><br /><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="a38bd" data-offset-key="4kci9-0-0">
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<span data-offset-key="4l26a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Then there are also other things that we define almost as being '<i>Laws of Nature</i>' that help us to reconcile the unwanted outcome. Its oft said that '<i>Toast always falls buttered side down</i>." In other words and if an accident was not enough - the unintended consequences, also add another unwelcome element to the outcome. Many years ago, I had this conversation with my then young daughter. She enquired "<i>If toast was not buttered on one side did it spin</i>?" We made extra toast and put it to the test. No, it does not spin, we tested the idea several times. Then we buttered one side, it was dropped to the floor and we discovered a new '<i>Law of Nature.</i>" Buttered toast never even hits the floor. As Paddy Murphy our erstwhile dog dashed in, grabbed it in mid air and then dashed off with the research evidence. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dvbh1-0-0"><span data-text="true">I few years ago we were moored up in Thrupp on the Oxford canal. Its a popular place for the nearby cafe and to sit and watch the antics of inexperienced hire boaters. particularly when coming under a lift bridge and making a sharp turn at the same time. There are also small boats available for hire in the same location. A stunningly attractive and well dressed young lady, accompanied by her boyfriend turned up. They decided to hire one of the small boats. The young fellow got into the boat first, without mishap. Sitting on the side, feet into the boat and then slowly transferring his weight into the boat. He then clung onto the side holding the boat into the edge, while his lady friend (<i>she must have missed the briefing</i>) just stepped straight into the boat. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1mbas-0-0"><span data-text="true">Well to be more accurate - one leg stepped into the boat and the other remained on the side. The gap between side and boat started to widen as did her legs and with a splash, she was in an instant in the water. A couple of us gentlemen boaters (<i>suppressing our laughter</i>) rushed to her aid. Getting her to turn her back to the side, so that we could hold one arm each and with little effort hoist her from the water. It concluded with us, depositing her sitting on the wharf side. Where she should have been in the first place. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6e9ni-0-0"><span data-text="true">She was a good sport, she was quite good humoured about what had happened. She was chuckling away and shaking her head at her own predicament. Her carefully groomed hair now plastered to her face. She sat quietly for a few seconds in a small but growing puddle. Then she started to remove things from her pockets - car keys, and a few other things, then came a rather expensive looking mobile phone. The chuckling stopped with the realisation that her most cherished item - like the Norwegian Blue Parrot was now very much deceased and very much dead. A few boaters gathered round and brought towels to help her dry off. But her face now was filled with bitter disappointment for her much loved (<i>and now angelically heading for mobile phone heaven</i>) Smartphone.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="78vse-0-0"><span data-text="true">Exposing anything electronic to water is just about the worst thing you can do. Certainly the worst thing that could happen to your smartphone is being given an unexpected bath in canal water. Now some mobile-manufacturers have started to construct water resistant phones. I have never found a true definition to 'water resistance' other than a number of metres and for a period in time. Because its only relative to what you are comparing it to and like the toast, its also subject to external circumstances. I treat such claims with a large shovel of salt. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9d7n6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Look, no matter the claims of the manufacturer. Its not a general invitation to take your phone into the sea, bath or shower with you. Its like those cork balls for your keyrings. We all have them and quite often we then ensure that there are sufficient keys attached to sink the ball with ease. So some people apply belts and braces technique and have a key float with two balls attached. However, if one ball is hard enough to accommodate in your pocket, two is practically impossible. Then there are those one-use-self-inflating key rings that are supposed to inflate like a life vest if you drop your keys in the water. Unlike one ball or two, you can't actually test them for working - without testing to destruction. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ebb2p-0-0"><span data-text="true">You could get a waterproof case for your phone, but the case will then add weight and size. No manufacturer so far supplies their phone with self inflating mini life vests or one or more cork balls. </span></span><span data-offset-key="ebb2p-0-0"><span data-text="true">Smartphone waterproofing has its limits. Your waterproof seal can wear
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Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-76062477705825161112017-08-20T08:17:00.003+01:002021-02-12T09:05:17.089+00:00Samuel Langhorne Clements<div data-block="true" data-editor="c067p" data-offset-key="elo8e-0-0" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span data-offset-key="elo8e-0-0"><span data-text="true">Samuel Langhorne Clements, is better known by his pen name of Mark Twain. The name taken from the sounding line used when testing the depth of water under a vessels keel. He was an American writer and humorist. Mark Twain wrote the classic American novels '<i>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</i>' and <i>'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>.'</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5m4tp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Well known for his one-line-quotes such as: '<i>I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places</i>.' He was also know for his short pithy comments such as: '<i>Go to Heaven for the climate. Go to Hell for the company</i>.' He was revered in his lifetime for his political observations such as: '<i>Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself</i>.' </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our short but sweet summer cruise to Liverpool proved to be quite entertaining in more ways than one. It was our first organised trip which made a significant change to our usual canal and river cruising style. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Working a group of boats through locks rather than just our own was one major change. Normally if bad weather comes about, we usually moor up and sit it out. Whereas in a group and working to a schedule meant at times boating into the rain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Would we do it again - yes, but with a couple of changes. Not working to a schedule other than a point of arrival time and date would be one. Departing earlier to have more time to enjoy the journey and no fixed arrival back time. The real enjoyment came from the leisure time barbecues when sharing food drink and the usual conviviality. </span></span></div>
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<b>Cruise Total: </b><br />
319.2 Miles:<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
152 Locks:<br />
40 Swing / Lift Bridges:<br />
22 Tunnels:<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">145.2 Engine Hours</span></span> <br />
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<b>Elapsed Days:</b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">24 Days Total:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">19 Moving Days:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">16.8 Average Miles </span></span></span>Per Day:<br />2.1 Miles Per Lock: </span></span></span><br />
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<b>Accumulated Total: </b><br />
<span style="color: red;">Miles: 3019 .5<br />Locks: 1888<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels: 82<br />Pump Outs: 28<br />Engine Hours: 3955.9</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-23675005381901487942017-08-13T22:34:00.000+01:002017-08-14T11:58:15.656+01:00Summer Cruise 2017 ❶❾<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Summer Cruise 2017 (19)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Two go to Liverpool</i>" Nb Rose of Arden
team up with various boats to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />Plardiwick Bridge 36 to Hawne Basin<br /><br /><b>Date:</b> 13/08/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather cold and odd short showers. By moring it was a uniform grey sky but no rain.<br /><br /> <b>Morning:</b> Early start from </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plardiwick Bridge 36 at</span></span> Gnossall and we just chugged along </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heading for Cowley Tunnel and eventually to Autherley Junction stop lock. Intended to get some diesel at Wheaton Aston - but closed on a Sunday! At Autherley Junction we topped up the diesel tank. 99p a litre ouch! </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kerching! </span></span></span></span>At the next boat yard along it was only 69p a litre. </span></span><br /><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Afternoon:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sun was quite hot by lunch time. Which coincided with the start of a 3 hour climb up the Wolverhampton 21 flight of locks. We we had done the first 14 when help arrived in the shape of - John off Kalkara and Paul off Our Little Nightmare. Everyone paused at the top for a meal provided by Janet and Rose before setting off again, through Wolverhampton Tunnel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Evening:</b> As the late afternoon light started to fall, it was a steady chug through weeds and debris through </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to Coseley Tunnel, Once through the Factory Locks (Which Bones had set in our favour) it was down onto the Birmingham mainline. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To Dudley Port Junction, then turning first right and then through Netherton Tunnel and turning onto the Dudley number two at Windmill End. Next was Gosty Hill Tunnel and it was getting quite dark as we arrived at the basin. </span></span><br /><br /><b>Wildlife:</b> Rat, Grey Squirrel and Rabbit.<br /><br /><b>Birds:</b>
House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Rook,
Jackdaw, Starling, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Pied Wagtail,
Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Grey Lag Goose, Canadian Goose,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove,
Kestrel, Buzzard, Thrush,
Herring Gull, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
Gull, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Swallow, House Martin, Swift, Pheasant and Jay.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> <b>Butterflies:</b> Meadow Brown, Common White, Small White, Comma, Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral.<br /><br /><b>Bats:</b> Pipistrelle, Daubentons,<br /><br /><b>Damselfly:</b> Common Blue Damselfly, <br /><br /><b>Dragonflies:</b> Four Spot Chaser.<br /><br /><b>Today's Total:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles: 27.9<br />Locks: 26<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 5<br />Pump Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 13.6</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Accumulated Total:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">Miles: 3019 .5<br />Locks: 1888<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels: 82<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3955.9</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-4846494215310603522017-08-12T20:54:00.000+01:002017-08-12T22:37:52.665+01:00 Summer Cruise 2017 ❶❽<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Summer Cruise 2017 (18)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Two go to Liverpool</i>" Nb Rose of Arden
team up with various boats to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span><br />
<br />
Nannys Bridge 8 to Plardiwick Bridge No 36 <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Date:</b> 12/08/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather was cold and overcast - it was the same in the morning.<br /><br /> <b>Morning:</b> pulled the pins at 8:00 and headed off down the </span></span>Shropshire Union Canal (Middlewich Branch)<span class="buttons" style="float: right;"></span><span class="buttons" style="float: right;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. To the first two locks. Not much on the move, so quickly passed through. Fun and games at the entrance of the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Llangollen Canal and Shropshire Union Main Line. Hire boats and boat owners at loggerheads about who was next in the lock. So we were at the </span></span>Junction of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line and the Chester Canal.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Afternoon: </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Audlem flight of 16 locks there was little moving on the flight and the first six locks were in our favour. Next it was </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Market Drayton and </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="small">the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="small"><span class="small">Adderley Locks before cruising on to the </span>Tyrley Locks. </span><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Evening:</b> We had never done much night cruising - and then only by accident. However, we followed a boat that was proceeding at tickover and refusing to move out of the way for about an hour and a half. When the boat paused to ask another boater some question - we squeezed by. So we now pushed on in the gathering gloom to Norbury Wharf stopping later at </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plardiwick Bridge for the night.<br /><br /><b>Wildlife:</b> Grey Squirrel. <br /><br /><b>Birds:</b>
House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Rook,
Jackdaw, Starling, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Pied Wagtail,
Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Robin, Long
Tailed Tit, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Canadian Goose,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove,
Kestrel, Buzzard, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
Gull, Black Headed Gull, Swallow, House Martin, Swift and Pheasant.<br /><br /> <b>Butterflies:</b> Meadow Brown, Small White Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Bats:</b> Pipistrelle, Daubentons,<br /><br /><b>Dragonflies:</b> Ruddy Darter, Four Spot Chaser.<br /><br /><b>Today's Total:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles: 31.7<br />Locks: 29<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 0<br />Pump Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 14.5<br /><br /><b>Accumulated Total:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Miles:
2991.6<br />Locks: 1862<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels:
77<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3942.3</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-2830734646151049872017-08-11T20:27:00.000+01:002017-08-11T20:53:29.149+01:00Summer Cruise 2017 ❶❼<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Summer Cruise 2017 (17)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Two go to Liverpool</i>" Nb Rose of Arden
team up with various boats to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />Lymm Bridge 23 to Bridge 8 Middlewich Branch<br /><br /><b>Date:</b> 10/08/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather cold and windy with occasional light showers. By morning it was grey and gloomy. <br /><br /> <b>Morning:</b> Cast off at 8am and headed through Lymm. Quite a good run before the locks. Not many boats on the move and frequent boats moored out on their own requiring us to slow down. Met up with Shane and Wendy to find out that their boat had broken down in Preston Brook Tunnel. <br /><br /><b>Afternoon:</b> By the early afternoon we were approaching the Middlewich branch. It was persistently raining when we met up with a chirpy smiling hire boater asking which way to go for the sunshine. Turned out to be Billy Brag<br /><br /><b>Evening:</b> The rain started to get a bit heavier and so we moored up a bit sooner than intended. <br /><br /><br /><b>Wildlife:</b> Grey Squirrel and Rabbit.<br /><br /><b>Birds:</b>
House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Rook,
Jackdaw, Starling, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan,
Goldfinch, Robin, Blue Tit, Long
Tailed Tit, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Canadian Goose,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove,
Kestrel, Lapwing, Buzzard, Herring Gull, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
Gull, Black Headed Gull, Swallow, House Martin, Swift, Jay the highlight being a flock of about 200 Lapwing.<br /><br /> <b>Butterflies:</b> Small White.<br /><br /><b>Dragonflies:</b> Four Spot Chaser. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>Today's Total:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles: 34.6<br />Locks: 7<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 3<br />Pump Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 12.1<br /><br /><b>Accumulated Total:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Miles:
2959.9<br />Locks: 1833<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels:
77<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3927.8</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-23171986050122973932017-08-10T20:22:00.000+01:002017-08-10T21:32:33.060+01:00Summer Cruise 2017 ❶❻<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Summer Cruise 2017 (16)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Two go to Liverpool</i>" Nb Rose of Arden
team up with various boats to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />Parbold Bridge 37D to Lymm Bridge 23.<br /><br /><b>Date:</b> 10/08/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather was overcast and cold. By morning the overcast was breaking up and there was some patches of blue. <br /><br /> <b>Morning:</b> 8:00 we pulled pins and headed off for the locks. We were accompanied by Nb Fenland Breeze. Everything went to plan hopping between various swing bridges and locks. Taking it in turns to set them up. By lunchtime we were in Wigan and at the Eli Meadow lock (89) close to the stadium. I had just entered the lock and was waiting for the other boat to join me. Soon the cry went up - man overboard - or in this case woman overboard!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Somehow The lady helming Fenland Breeze had caught a rope on her leg and it dragged her overboard. I backed the boat out of the lock. She was clinging to the centre line. I asked if she could swim. The answer was Yes. So I urged her to swim for the bank to get her away from the boat and any risk from the propeller. A couple of strong men on the bank had her lifted out in no time. I reversed up to her boat and roped it onto mine and drew it over to the bank. Time for hot shower and a change of clothes. Though she did observe that the water was warm. No injuries to note and though the adrenaline had by now kicked in. A cup of sweet tea and a chance to relax put everything right.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br /><b>Afternoon:</b> We turned onto the Bridgewater canal and it took almost an hour to clear the first two locks. They are hard to open and take a long time to find a level. Then it was head for Plank Land swing bridge before the rush hour shutdown. After that it was a steady plod on in the nice warm sunshine. There were few boats on the move.<br /><br /><b>Evening:</b> At 8pm we moored up in Lymm by bridge 23. <br /><br /><br /><b>Wildlife:</b> Hare and Rat<br /><br /><b>Birds:</b>
House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Rook,
Jackdaw, Starling, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Pied Wagtail, Robin, Great Tit, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Canadian Goose,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove,
Kestrel, Buzzard, Herring Gull, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
Gull, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Sedge Warbler,
Swallow, House Martin, Swift and Pheasant.<br /><br /> <b>Butterflies:</b> Meadow Brown, Common White, Small White, Comma, Tortoiseshell, Peacock and Red Admiral.<br /><br /><b>Damselfly:</b> Banded Damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly, <br /><br /><b>Dragonflies:</b> Emperor, Ruddy Darter, Four Spot Chaser.<br /><br /><b>Today's Total:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles: 36.4<br />Locks: 8<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 4<br />Tunnels: 0<br />Pump Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 12.1<br /><br /><b>Accumulated Total:</b> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">Miles:
2959.9<br />Locks: 1833<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 402<br />Tunnels:
77<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3915.7</span></span></span></span></span></span>Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-65234178388358373422017-08-09T20:00:00.000+01:002017-08-09T21:12:16.489+01:00 Summer Cruise 2017 ❶❺<div class="western">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summer
Cruise 2017 (15)</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Two go to Liverpool</i>" Nb Rose of Arden
team up with various boats to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Salthouse Dock</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Liverpool </span></span>to Parbold </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bridge 37D<b><br /></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
09/08/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">was cold and overcast with a few light showers. By morning the overcast was broken with a bit of blue sky way off in the distance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Morning:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
prepared for our departure at 07:30. Topping up water tanks and stowing things away in cupboards. We were at Man Island lock at 07:50 to be met by lock keeper Sid and his crew. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We paired up with Nb Milly crewed by Jane and Willem. Three tunnels (</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St
Nicholas Tunnel, Cunard Tunnel and Museum Tunnel) and what is known as
"Sid's Ditch" then up the flight.</span></span> By 09:30 we were exiting the top lock. We headed for Litherland swing bridge and the first trip down the weed hatch.<b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Afternoon:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At 12 noon pm which was our appointed time we started for Swing bridge 6 which is operated by CaRT. there were 7 boats in the convoy. Periodically at various swing bridges the convoy would loose a participant. Usually because one was being tardy in keeping up and people waiting to cross the bridge were grumbling. Soon their was a nucleolus of four boats. Nb Milly, Nb Remembrance, Rose of Arden and Nb Fenland Breeze. Late afternoon we were entertained by a cyclist who rode off the towpath and into the cut. His cycling partner was in hysterics and we were finding it hard to keep a straight face. He climbed out - then went back in to recover his bike.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evening: </b>By 7:30pm the last two in the convoy had, had enough so we moored up at Parbold Bridge 37D. Food, weed hatch, shower and beer in that order. By 8:30pm we were treated to an amazing sunset.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wildlife:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rat and Rabbit!</span></span><br />
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House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Rook,
Jackdaw, Starling, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan,
Goldfinch, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Canadian Goose,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Buzzard, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed
Gull, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Sedge Warbler,
Swallow, House Martin and Swift.<br /><br /> <b>Butterflies:</b> Meadow Brown, Common White, Small White, Tortoiseshell, Peacock and Red Admiral.<br /><br /><b>Damselfly:</b> Banded Damselfly and Common Blue Damselfly, <br /><br /><b>Dragonflies:</b> Emperor, Ruddy Darter and Four Spot Chaser.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 14.0</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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3-8/08/2017<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1) Maintenance of the solar panel system. This required remounting of the panels and re-cabling the system to the controller and then into the battery bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2) The leisure battery bank finally gave up the ghost and I found some Exide RE550 115ah at a good price. Which were delivered right to the boat. Changing over the batteries should be a straightforward task. However its a tight engine hole and a confined space in which to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3) Now we have given the paintwork a good clean and a bit of a shine. Plus the usual touch up of any knocks, scrapes and chips. While there is a myth that boating is a contact sport the reality is, boating is not a sport its a way of life. So don't knock it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4) An oil and filter change is due and I have some of the materials to hand. However the boat is OK for another 30 engine hours.</span></div>
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Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-63644895725560960962017-08-03T20:00:00.000+01:002017-08-05T02:57:18.666+01:00Summer Cruise 2017 ❶❸<div class="western">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Six go to Liverpool</i>" As Nb Kalkara,
Nb Alchemy, Nb My little Nightmare, Nb SWJKSDL and Nb Heavy Metal (BellOil) Nb Rose of Arden
team up to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Litherland Swing Bridge to Salthouse Dock</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
03/08/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">was cold and windy. By morning the wind was still building and we were battered by a heavy downpour at first light.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Morning:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We prepared for our departure at 10:30. Topping up water tanks. Nb Diligent Too joined us at the top lock. After having their boats ropes cut in the night. Patrick and his partner were people we had met previously and along with Nb October were part of a trio of boats who shared an entertaining trip along the south Oxford canal and onto the Thames three years previously. <b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Afternoon:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At 1:30 pm which was our appointed time we started down the lock flight into the Liverpool docks. The wind was making it difficult to thread our way through the pounds. At the 3rd lock the wind direction changed altogether as it was being funnelled through a large railway arch. Three tunnels (</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St Nicholas Tunnel, Cunard Tunnel and Museum Tunnel) and what is known as "Sid's Ditch" and we were ready to enter the maze of docks and passages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The trip through the dock complex was aided by 'Sid' of Sid's ditch fame. Sid is a friendly member of the waterways team. Like the typical 'Scouser' Sid kept us entertained with a running commentary. On what was and what used to be. The wind was blowing a gale and it required the boats to be powered forcefully through the system. We were soon moored up in our berth by 3pm.<b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evening:</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Time to relax after our 13 day trip. Soon everyone was sat around in a large group. Sharing our experiences of the trip from Hawne Basin to Salthouse Dock.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wildlife:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rat!</span></span><br />
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House Sparrow, Magpie, Carrion Crow,
Rook, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Moorhen, Cormorant, Canadian Goose,
Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black
Backed Gull, Black Headed Gull, Swallow, House Martin and Swift.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Butterflies:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Common White and Red Admiral.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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Total:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miles: 5.4<br />Locks: 6<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 3<br />Pump
Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 4.5</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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2894.7<br />Locks: 1819<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 382<br />Tunnels:
74<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3889.6</span></span> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Six go to Liverpool</i>" As Nb
Kalkara, Nb Alchemy, Nb My little Nightmare, Nb SWJKSDL, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Metal (BellOil)</span></span> and Nb Rose
of Arden team up to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Holmes
Swing Bridge to Litherland Visitor Moorings</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
01/08/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather was overcast, cold and windy much as it has been for the last few days.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Morning:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Just as we were about to leave Holmes Swing Bridge round the bend came Tony on Nb </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heavy Metal (BellOil)</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. He has just caught up with us after leaving Hawne Basin 3 days and 4 hours before! </span></span>Which is a distance of 154 miles. Including 10 Swing bridges and 70 Locks. Cosmic, bloody cosmic!<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Afternoon:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> By early afternoon we had reached our intended destination at Litherland. It proved to be quite a relaxing day with just the odd light shower.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evening:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> A shared barbecue with good boating friends was had by all. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wildlife:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Badger.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birds:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">House Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow,
Rook, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long
Tailed Tit, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Canadian Geese, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared
Dove, Kestrel, Herring Gull, Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black
Backed Gull, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern,Swallow, House Martin, Swift and Muscovy Duck. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Butterflies:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Meadow Brown, Common White, Small White and Red Admiral.</span></span><br />
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Pipistrelle, Daubentons,</span></span><br />
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Four Spot Chaser.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today's
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Five go to Liverpool</i>" As Nb
Kalkara, Nb Alchemy, Nb My little Nightmare, Nb SWJKSDL and Nb Rose
of Arden team up to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Crabtree
Swing Bridge to Holmes Swing Bridge</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
31/07/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather was cold and quite windy. One very heavy and prolonged shower!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Morning:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> An uneventful morning and underway by 9:00. The wind had an hard edge to it and was causing occasional steering problems. Late morning and we come across a CaRT butty that had been moored up using the usual frayed blue string. one boater had to donate rope to moor it back up. Another boater donated a mooring pin to secure it to the bank. The butty must have been there for some time as it was full of bags of boaters rubbish.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Afternoon:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The afternoon warmed up a bit and the highlight was to come across a couple who were doing a charity walk along the canal from Leeds to Liverpool. All 127 miles of it! They posed for a couple of pictures. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They are raising funds for Ronald McDonald House in Liverpool, which provides accommodation for the families of children who are in-patient's at Alder
Hey Hospital. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are both doing this in memory of Kaden Lee Hadfield, who passed away on
November 28th, 2016 in Alder Hey Hospital, after complications with his arthritis treatment. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael Isherwood and I will be walking 127 miles along the Leeds to
Liverpool Canal in 5 days - all sponsorship or donations will be greatly
appreciated.
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evening:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Moored up for the night at Holmes Swing Bridge and then came the joy of removing plastic bags wrapped round plastic bin liners encased in fishing line and camouflaged with weeds. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wildlife:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Water Vole and a few rabbits.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birds:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">House Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow,
Rook, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Pied Wagtail, Robin, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Grey Lag Goose, Canada Geese,
Kingfisher, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared
Dove, Lesser Black
Backed Gull, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Sedge
Warbler, Swallow, House Martin, Egyptian Goose and Swift.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Butterflies:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Meadow Brown, Common White, Small White, Sulphur Yellow
Tortoiseshell and Peacock.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bats:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Pipistrelle and Daubentons.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Damselfly:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Banded Damselfly and Common Blue Damselfly.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dragonflies:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Ruddy Darter.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today's
Total:</b></span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miles: 12.8<br />Locks: 0<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 8<br />Tunnels: 0<br />Pump
Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 7.1</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Accumulated
Total:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: red;"> </span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles:
2883.3<br />Locks: 1813<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 379<br />Tunnels:
71<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3880.0</span></span> </span></span></span>
</div>
Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-92181985497157737902017-07-30T20:33:00.000+01:002017-07-30T20:33:10.651+01:00 Summer Cruise 2017 ❶⓿<div class="western">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summer
Cruise 2017 (10)</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Five go to Liverpool</i>" As Nb
Kalkara, Nb Alchemy, Nb My little Nightmare, Nb SWJKSDL (MIA) and Nb Rose
of Arden team up to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Dover Lock Inn to Crabtree Swing Bridge</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
30/07/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather was cold and provided the odd shower of rain. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Morning:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 9:15 start from Dover Lock and a steady plod along the Bridgewater Canal. The sky was overcast and as wel left a rainbow arched over the canal. However, it was a good omen and we had little in the way of rain.We soon passed the bottom of the Wigan Flight and Turned onto the Leeds Liverpool. Soon we were into Wigan and passing the Wigan Pier which is a well known book title, for fans of George Orwell. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Afternoon:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Stopped for lunch at Appley Lock. Late in the afternoon we passed the Rufford Branch Canal which leads to the Lancaster Canal. Might explore the Rufford branch on the way back. Mid afternoon we passed through Dean Lock our last lock of the day. Late afternoon the rain arrived in occasional sharp downpours. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evening:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Moored up for the night just after Crabtree Swing Bridge </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wildlife:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Huge Mirror Carp and a very large Pike.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birds:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">House Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow,
Rook, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Grey Lag Goose, Canada Goose, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Collared
Dove, Lesser Black
Backed Gull, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Swallow, House Martin and Swift. Pick of the day was a </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kingfisher which landed on the top of the front cratch while we were moving.
It had a tiny fish that it gave a few sideways whacks before flying off.
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Butterflies:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meadow Brown, Small White and Peacock. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bats:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Pipistrelle, Daubentons,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Damselfly:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Common Blue Damselfly. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today's
Total:</b></span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miles: 15.8<br />Locks: 8<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 5<br />Tunnels: 0<br />Pump
Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours:10.8</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Accumulated
Total:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: red;"> </span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles:
2870.5<br />Locks: 1813<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 371<br />Tunnels:
71<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3872.9</span></span> </span></span></span>
</div>
Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-36496770205153001522017-07-29T20:02:00.000+01:002017-07-29T20:02:00.228+01:00Summer Cruise 2017 ❾<div class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summer
Cruise 2017 (9)</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Five go to Liverpool</i>" As Nb
Kalkara, Nb Alchemy, Nb My little Nightmare, Nb SWJKSDL and Nb Rose
of Arden team up to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Worsley
Road Bridge (44) to Dover Lock Inn</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
29/07/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather was cold with occasional showers of rain.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Morning:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 09:15 start heading along the Bridgewater Canal. For what proved to an uneventful leg of our trip. We had found a paddle in the canal yesterday. Today we came across a kids group out for a paddle along the canal. So we donated our find to them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Afternoon:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Stopped in Leigh to restock the vessels consumables at the boaters friend Aldi and Tesco. Just after we set off A sudden gust of wind removed my hat into the canal. At the same moment a couple of people in short kayaks managed to recover it for me. So once again karma provides a Result!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evening:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Moored up at Dover Lock Inn for the night.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birds:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">House Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow,
Rook, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Coot, Moorhen, Grey Lag Goose, Canadian Goose,
Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Swallow, House Martin and Swift. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Butterflies:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Tortoiseshell.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Damselfly:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Common Blue Damselfly. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today's
Total:</b></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miles: 13.9<br />Locks: 0<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 1<br />Tunnels: 0<br />Pump
Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours: 7.5</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Accumulated
Total:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: red;"> </span></div>
<div class="western" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles:
2854.7<br />Locks: 1805<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 363<br />Tunnels:
71<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3862.1</span></span> </span></span></span>
</div>
Mike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-50831652984851553902017-07-28T20:49:00.000+01:002017-07-28T20:49:00.210+01:00Summer Cruise 2017 ❽<div class="western">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summer
Cruise 2017 (8)</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Subtitled:</b>
"<i>The Magnificent Five go to Liverpool</i>" As Nb
Kalkara, Nb Alchemy, Nb My little Nightmare, Nb SWJKSDL, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nb Indulgence </span></span>and Nb Rose
of Arden team up to enjoy a summer cruise along the inland waterways.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Pickerings
Bridge to Mosley Road Bridge (44)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Date:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
28/07/2017<br /><br />Overnight the weather was cold and punctuated with occasional showers. The morning brought a dry start, but it soon went down hill.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Morning:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Off at 8:30 and we struck out along the Bridgewater Canal heading for or muster point at Waters Meeting on the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stretford and Leigh Branch. It was quite a cold start and the clouds continued to build throughout the morning. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Afternoon:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We had a sort break to take on more fresh water and paused for lunch at Broadheath Bridge (30). It was here that we parted company with </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nb SWJKSDL for a few days. But met up with Nb Indulgence. Rescued an almost brand new football and a kayak paddle floating in the cut. (How can you lose a kayak paddle and not notice?)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evening:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Moored for the night at </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waters Meeting. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rain was torrential and everyone was glad to have an early finish.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birds:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
House Sparrow, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow,
Rook, Blackbird, Mallard, Mute Swan, Pied Wagtail, Robin, Coot, Moorhen, Cormorant, Grey Lag Goose, Canadian Goose, Grey Heron, Wood Pigeon, Kestrel, Buzzard, Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Swallow, House Martin and Swift.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today's
Total:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miles: 13.5<br />Locks: 0<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 0<br />Tunnels: 0<br />Pump
Outs: 0<br />Engine Hours:6.4</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Accumulated
Total:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: red;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miles:
2841.8<br />Locks: 1805<br />Swing / Lift Bridges: 362<br />Tunnels:
71<br />Pump Outs: 27<br />Engine Hours: 3856.6</span></span> </span></span></span>
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