"to accuse another member of lying is considered unparliamentary. In more recent times, the term was used by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg to the Leader of the Oppositon, Jeremy Corbyn over an accusation that Rees-Mogg's company had moved a hedge fund into the Eurozone despite him being in favour of Brexit. Terminological inexactitude Terminological inexactitude is a phrase introduced in 1906 by British politician Winston Churchill. Today, it is used as a euphemism or circumlocution meaning a lie or untruth. Churchill first used the phrase following the 1906 election. Speaking in the House of Commons on 22 February 1906 as"
"Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. He inspired a generation of party managers, created the National Union of the Conservative Party, and broke new ground in modern budgetary presentations, attracting admiration and criticism from across the political spectrum. His most acerbic critics resided in his own party among his closest friends; but his disloyalty to Lord Salisbury was the beginning of the end of what should have been a glittering career. His elder son, Winston, wrote a"
"it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."" This quote is often misattributed to Groucho Marx, with slightly different wording (""Politics is the art of looking for trouble; finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly, and applying unsuitable remedies""). Ernest Benn Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet, (25 June 1875 – 17 January 1954) was a British publisher, writer and political publicist. His father, John Benn, was a politician, who had been made a baronet in 1914. He was an uncle of the Labour politician Tony Benn. Benn was born in Oxted, Surrey. He attended the Central Foundation Boys' School As"
"The consequent chapter of the ""Westminster Confession of Faith"" (""Of Church Censures"") was not ratified by the English parliament. According to the ""Catholic Encyclopedia"", ""The ""Theses"" and ""Confirmatio thesium"" appeared together in 1589. The central question about which the ""Theses"" turned was that of excommunication. The term is not, however, used by Erastus in the Catholic sense as excluding the delinquent from the society or membership of the Church. The excommunication to which [it] alludes was the exclusion of those of bad life from participation in the sacraments."" Thomas Erastus Thomas Erastus (September 7, 1524 – December 31, 1583) was"
"Michael Foot Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters. Foot began his career as a journalist, on ""Tribune"" and the ""Evening Standard"". He co-wrote the classic polemic against appeasement of Adolf Hitler, ""Guilty Men"", under a pseudonym. Foot served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and again from 1960 until he retired in 1992. A passionate orator and associated with the left-wing of the Labour Party for most of his career, Foot was an ardent supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and"
"of an American billionaire property developer. Sir Winston referred to his father's career in several of the last chapters of ""A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"" written in Winston's 'wilderness years' in the inter-war years before he was recalled to the cabinet. Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. He inspired a generation of party managers, created the National Union of the Conservative Party, and broke new ground in modern budgetary presentations, attracting admiration and criticism from across"
"Politics and the English Language ""Politics and the English Language"" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the ""ugly and inaccurate"" written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, ""is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind"". Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it. This unclear prose was a ""contagion"" which"
"Truthiness Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions. The concept of truthiness has emerged as a major subject of discussion surrounding U.S. politics during the 1990s and 2000s because of the perception among some observers of a rise in propaganda and a growing hostility toward factual reporting and fact-based discussion. American television comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term"
"Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British public speaker and hereditary peer. He is known for his work as a journalist, Conservative political advisor, UKIP political candidate, and for his invention of the mathematical puzzle ""Eternity"". Early on in his public speaking career topics centred on his mathematical puzzle and conservative politics. In recent years his public speaking has garnered attention due to his denial of climate change and his views on the European Union and social policy. Monckton is the eldest son of Major-General"
"news page is dated to June 2011. Campaign Against Political Correctness The Campaign Against Political Correctness was a lobby group in the United Kingdom created to oppose what its founders described as political correctness. The campaign was founded by John and Laura Midgley in 2004. It increased its appeal by appearing on television programmes such as ITV's ""This Morning"". In 2005, John Midgley claimed that the Campaign had 5,000 supporters, including both those who had joined and those who had donated money or signed its petition. The campaign had the political support of MP Philip Davies and his father, controversial"
"on 18 April 2012 to criticise the Government's 2012 budget. The British media used the phrase to describe US Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney upon his UK tour, when he said that he didn't believe Britain would be ready for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Due to its adoption by real life politicians, the word was entered into the Oxford English Dictionary on 13 November 2012. In the run-up to the 2010 general election, the column 'Malcolm Tucker's election briefing' appeared weekly in ""The Guardian"", written by Jesse Armstrong. When Capaldi was cast as the Doctor in ""Doctor Who"", his incarnation of"
"funds. Henry Lucy Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (5 December 1842– 20 February 1924) was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. He was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. Known as serious commentator of parliamentary affairs, he was also an accomplished humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer; acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. To the British and men like Ernest Shackleton, who named a mountain after him in Antarctica, he was a hero. But New York journalists saw the Englishmen as a mild joke. The mixed perceptions of his real personality have"
"Political gaffe A political gaffe is an error made by a politician. ""Gaffe"" is of French origin, originally a 'boat hook' as in 'gaff rig' where the relation is apparent, but the sense association to a blundering remark is obscure. A Kinsley gaffe occurs when a political gaffe reveals some truth that a politician did not intend to admit. The term comes from journalist Michael Kinsley, who said, ""A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say."" The term gaffe may be used to describe an inadvertent statement by a politician"
"William Keogh William Nicholas Keogh PC (1817– 30 September 1878) was an unpopular and controversial Irish politician and judge, whose name became a byword in Ireland for betraying one's political principles. He was born in Galway, son of William Keogh, clerk of the Crown for Kilkenny, and his wife Mary ffrench. He went to Dr Huddard's school in Dublin, and graduated from the University of Dublin: he was called to the Bar in 1840, and became Queen's Counsel in 1849. No-one has ever questioned his intellectual abilities. He was a superb speaker both in public and private, he founded a"
"of Treason"", The ""Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon upon the Statute of Uses"". Works by Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive"
"published by Edmond Malone after his death under the title ""Parliamentary Logick"". William Gerard Hamilton William Gerard Hamilton (28 January 1729 – 16 July 1796), was English statesman and Irish politician, popularly known as ""Single Speech Hamilton"". He was born in London, the son of William Hamilton, a Scottish bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and succeeded his father in 1754. He was educated at Winchester, Lincoln's Inn and Oriel College, Oxford. With his father's fortune he entered political life and became Member of Parliament for Petersfield in Hampshire. His maiden speech, delivered on 13 November 1755, during the debate on the"
"spokesman on economic issues for the United Kingdom's Conservative Party, warned of the gravity of the UK economic situation in the House of Commons: He used the term again on 7 July 1970, and the media began also to use it, for example in ""The Economist"" on 15 August 1970, and Newsweek on 19 March 1973. In a Bank of England working papers series, article authors Edward Nelson and Kalin Nikolov (2002) examined causes and policy errors related to the Great Inflation in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, arguing that as inflation rose in the 1960s and 1970s, UK"
"Henry Lucy Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (5 December 1842– 20 February 1924) was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. He was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. Known as serious commentator of parliamentary affairs, he was also an accomplished humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer; acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. To the British and men like Ernest Shackleton, who named a mountain after him in Antarctica, he was a hero. But New York journalists saw the Englishmen as a mild joke. The mixed perceptions of his real personality have been"
"prone to verbosity and coining obscure words without providing definition for the reader. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward, he was appointed the founding editor of ""The Economic Journal"". Edgeworth was born in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland. He did not attend school, but was educated by private tutors at the Edgeworthstown estate until he reached the age to enter university. His father, Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, was descended from French Huguenots"
"H. B. Acton Harry Burrows Acton (2 June 1908 – 16 June 1974), usually cited as H. B. Acton, was an English academic in the field of political philosophy, known for books defending the morality of capitalism, and attacking Marxism-Leninism. He in particular produced arguments on the incoherence of Marxism, which he described as a 'farrago' (in philosophical terms). His book ""The Illusion of the Epoch"", in which this appears, is a standard point of reference. Other interests were the Marquis de Condorcet, Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, F. H. Bradley, Bernard Bosanquet and Sidney Webb. He had teaching"
"John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), usually cited as J. S. Mill, was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed ""the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century"", Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control. Mill was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific"
"Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow PC (23 June 1654 – 5 December 1717) was a British Whig Member of Parliament, known as Sir Richard Onslow, 2nd Baronet from 1688 until 1716. He served as the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1708 until 1710 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1714 until 1715. Onslow was a very unpopular figure amongst members of both political parties, particularly during his time as Speaker. He was extremely pedantic and showed an absolute devotion to principle, as a result he was given the nickname ""Stiff Dick"". Onslow's"
"by the translators as ""fable"" in ""First"" and ""Second Timothy"", in ""Titus"" and in ""First Peter"". A ""factoid"" is a questionable or spurious (unverified, false, or fabricated) statement presented as a fact, but with no veracity. The word can also be used to describe a particularly insignificant or novel fact, in the absence of much relevant context. The word is defined by the ""Compact Oxford English Dictionary"" as ""an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact"". ""Factoid"" was coined by Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a"
"Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (; 22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman, who served as Attorney General, and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method, and remained influential through the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued this could be achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. While"
"Edmund Burke Edmund Burke (; 12 January <nowiki>[</nowiki>NS<nowiki>]</nowiki> 17299 July 1797) was an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views were expressed in his ""A Vindication of Natural Society"". Burke criticized British treatment of the American"
"Politician's syllogism The politician's syllogism, also known as the politician's logic or the politician's fallacy, is a logical fallacy of the form: The politician's fallacy was identified in a 1988 episode of the BBC television political sitcom ""Yes, Prime Minister"" titled ""Power to the People"", and has taken added life on the Internet. The syllogism, invented by fictional British civil servants, has been quoted in the real British Parliament. The syllogism has also been quoted in American political discussion. In ""Yes, Prime Minister"", the term is discussed between two high-ranking civil servants who are concerned that the prime minister wants"
"Giambattista Vico Giambattista Vico (born Giovan Battista Vico , ; 23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian political philosopher and rhetorician, historian and jurist, of the Age of Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, was an apologist for Classical Antiquity, a precursor of systematic and complex thought, in opposition to Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism, and was the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics. The Latin aphorism ""Verum esse ipsum factum"" (""What is true is precisely what is made"") coined by Vico is an early instance"
"Charlwood Lawton Charlwood Lawton (1660–1721) was an English lawyer and phrase-making pamphleteer, a Whig of Jacobite views. He invented the term ""Whiggish Jacobite"", used to point out the difference between those who shared his opinions (who included Sir James Montgomery, 4th Baronet and Robert Ferguson), and the nonjuror faction. After the Battle of La Hogue of 1692, the exiled James II of England became more receptive to Lawton's range of arguments. Lawton promoted ""civil comprehension"", i.e. the removal of all religious tests for the holding of public office. He was a prolific author of subversive literature, to whom some uncertain"
"Perfidious Albion Perfidious Albion is an anglophobic pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations and diplomacy to refer to alleged acts of diplomatic sleights, duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity (with respect to perceived promises made to or alliances formed with other nation states) by monarchs or governments of the UK (or England prior to 1707) in their pursuit of self-interest. ""Perfidious"" signifies one who does not keep his faith or word (from the Latin word ""perfidia""), while ""Albion"" is an ancient and now poetic name for Great Britain. The use of the adjective ""perfidious"" to describe England has"
"Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, ( ; 5 April 18863 July 1957) was a British physicist and an influential scientific adviser to the British government from the early 1940s to the early 1950s, particularly to Winston Churchill. He advocated the ""area"" bombing or ""strategic bombing"" of German cities and civilian homes during the Second World War by falsely stating data to Winston Churchill from a study on the psychological impact of Germany's Birmingham Blitz and Hull Blitz on the local populations. He also doubted the sophistication of Nazi Germany's radar technology and the existence"
"inaccurate"" contemporary written English – particularly in politics where ""pacification"" can be used to mean ""...defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets..."". Two years later, Sir Ernest Gowers, a distinguished civil servant, was asked by HM Treasury to provide a guide to officials on avoiding pompous and over-elaborate writing. He wrote, ""writing is an instrument for conveying ideas from one mind to another; the writer's job is to make his reader apprehend his meaning readily and precisely."" Gowers' guide was published as"
"Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, PC, MP, FRS, FRSE, FLS (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835) was a Scottish politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and the first person to use the word ""statistics"" in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, ""Statistical Account of Scotland"", in 21 volumes. Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of Ulbster (d.1770), a member of the family of the Earls of Caithness, and his wife Lady Janet Sutherland. He was born at Thurso Castle, Caithness. He was educated at th High"
"Works by Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the Scientific Method."