I'm getting very bored of pro-Brexit people talking about democracy. The democracy boat sailed years ago. The situation we're in now literally cannot happen in a functioning democracy. A democracy, as distinct from simple mob rule, is a system of government where the people can shape policy direction to some greater or lesser extent, but if they're feeling peckish they can't just all gang up and decide to eat Gary.

OK, let's get ahead of this nonsense this year.

"ffi" is the Latin Small Ffi Ligature. It's a nice way of presenting two Fs and an I (say, in "efficient") without the various dots and ascenders mushing together. Most fonts have it, and you see it every day without noticing it. Usually they just look nice and get out of the way, but ligatures can cause problems, say when a passage in a book is supposed to look like it's written on a typewriter but the typesetter forgot to turn them off. No typewriter has an "fi" key.