'Rotten Boroughs' is a regular feature of which magazine?
Rotten and pocket boroughs collapse. The magazine "Private Eye" has a column entitled 'Rotten Boroughs', which lists stories of municipal wrongdoing; "borough" is used here in its usual sense of a local government district rather than a parliamentary constituency. In his book "The Age of Consent", George Monbiot compared small island states with one vote in the United Nations General Assembly to "rotten boroughs". The term "rotten borough" is sometimes used to disparage electorates used to gain political leverage. In Hong Kong and Macau, functional constituencies (with small voter bases attached to special interests) are often referred to as "rotten boroughs" by long-time columnist
Rotten and pocket boroughs voter (Blackadder himself). In the video game, Assassin's Creed III pocket and rotten boroughs are briefly mentioned in a database entry entitled ""Pocket Boroughs"", and Old Sarum is mentioned as one of the worst examples of a pocket borough. In the game, shortly before the Boston Massacre an NPC can be heard speaking to a group of people on the colonies lack of representation in Parliament and lists several rotten boroughs including Old Sarum. Rotten and pocket boroughs A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England,