User:Smurrayinchester/Pages

Some of the more interesting pages that I've started:

• Consensus government - A bit of a stub, but it's interesting to see how politics works without political parties.
• Post-truth politics – Trying to pin down the meaning of the latest buzzword.
• Bpoplive - Back when it seemed like the worst lies in the EU referendum campaign would be about the line-up of a music festival.
• Birthday effect - A birthday can be deadly
• Henderson's - Not the delicious sauce but an anarchist bookshop better known as the Bomb Shop
• Hugh Franklin (suffragist) - Whipper of Winston Churchill, burner of trains, and uncle to Rosalind Franklin.
• Fanny Murray - An 18th century prostitute who invented a hat and became part of a constitutional crisis. An early example of famous for being famous.
• Hessian cuisine - Apple-wine, vinegar, sour cheese and boiled pork.
• Gang War - A film no-one has seen for decades, originally attached to one of the famous films of all time.
• Loose wheel nut indicator - A case of "I wondered what these were, perhaps other people do too."
• Road slipperiness - Exactly what it says on the can.
• Pingelap - A small atoll deep in the Pacific Ocean, where 10% of the population is totally colour-blind.
• Kasongo Ilunga - A DR Congolese politician who apparently doesn't actually exist.
• Chester city walls - My username explains the interest...
• Funeral train - Back in the day, catching the train to your own funeral was a thing that happened.
• Roald Dahl Plass - Perhaps familiar to Doctor Who fans and Torchwood fans (if any still exist).
• List of Friends characters - Of all the articles I started, this is certainly now the longest.
• Vindaloo (song) - In retrospect, I should have never created this article and let the song fade into blissful oblivion.
• Hawarden Airport - Where one of the world's largest planes flies from, and another sails from.
• Dogs Trust - Inventors of "A dog is for life, not just for Christmas".
• British Rail flying saucer - Worth it for the title alone.
• Puddle - Hard to believe this didn't exist before.
• Cheshire Phoenix - Back when they were Chester Jets. Chester has a weakness for phoenix clubs, it seems.

Other pages that I have significantly expanded:

• 2016 Turkish purges (expanded and cleaned up for Main Page)
• Iraq Inquiry (added the findings)
• Aftermath of the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 (split from main referendum article)
• Virtue signaling (cleaned up by request)
• Wedding, Funeral, Coming of age (added the image boxes at the top to show how theses ceremonies are performed worldwide)
• Pentaquark (tried to explain what it actually is)
• Cheshire West and Chester Council election, 2015 (expanded to include a lot more analysis - it was the only election in 2015 where Labour took a council from the Tories)
• 2015 FIFA corruption case (tried to keep on top of the arrests, indictments and convictions)
• Blockupy movement (expanded)
• Colorado River (added Minute 319 section)
• People's Republic of South Yorkshire (rescued from POVish stub to a (hopefully) balanced exploration of Yorkshire left-wing politics in the 1980s)
• Canford Cliffs (expanded)
• Advisory speed limit (created)
• Mandatory sign (created)
• Direction, position, or indication sign (created)