“Newly translated documents list 75 percent of the perpetrators of murders with known background as “clericus”, a term most commonly used to describe students or members of the then-recently founded University of Oxford. And 72 percent of the victims were also classed as clericus.”

Three hundred and fifty-four murders at a rate of 70 per 100,000 requires a population of half a million. Oxford population townspeople plus students say ten thousand over the study period. Population churn not less than twenty years; it takes a millennium to get up to 500,000. The study may be accurate but the reportage most certainly is not.

Well, Instagram, Tinder, et al. have so swelled the ranks that many feel the need to use nicer language. Would not want to alienate too many customers/voters/marks.

Sex workers are providing a service. Parliament not so much.

What? Were they actually elected Members of Parliament?

They just can’t get themselves to call them what they really are, whores and prostitutes.