Electrofishing to remove competing species of fish, the persecution of cormorants and goosanders and – in the past – otters, herons, ospreys, white-tailed eagles and anything else that ate fish, the ecologically-illiterate campaign by the Angling Trust to kill any beavers returning to England, the clearance of bankside vegetation to facilitate casting: all these impoverish the ecosystem.
Despite the economically illiterate central tenets of the leave campaign – that a Brexit will somehow enable Britain to "go global" – it is striking that very few countries, if any, have been campaigning for Britain to leave the EU.
PAGE A3 Kentucky Battles a Plague The hills of eastern Kentucky are home to thousands of people who are functionally illiterate, but the state is vigorously campaigning to turn that around so those potential workers can find jobs.
The campaign required reaching a mostly illiterate population.
"I get daily messages, apparently from different people but all using identically illiterate spelling: 'Your a dick.' Coordinated campaign?" he asked in February, starting his 47th Twitter explosion of the year.
We emerge squinting in the daylight of day 11 of the campaign after scouring ourselves of the "illiterate refugees are taking Australian jobs" muck from yesterday.
It is a truism that somehow got twisted into Obama having a "problem with white voters" by the Clinton campaign and a compliant and mathematically illiterate traditional media.
In the New York Times obituary of Mao, Fox Butterfield wrote, "Mao launched a series of sweeping, sometimes convulsive campaigns to transform a semifeudal, largely illiterate and predominantly agricultural country … into a modern, industrialized socialist state".
An acrimonious debate over asylum seekers has taken centre stage in Australia's election campaign after the immigration minister warned that "illiterate and innumerate" refugees were likely to "languish" on unemployment queues and also "take Australian jobs".
Because two-thirds of Afghans are thought to be illiterate, the logos chosen to identify candidates during the campaign and on ballot papers are important, and include anything from an oil lamp to a bulldozer.
