Judges ruled that the definition used “conflates and confuses two separate and distinct protected characteristics” laid out in the Equality Act - a reserved piece of legislation which MSPs do not have the power to alter.

The trademarks do not cover the "WP" abbreviation, but the WordPress Foundation says: "please don’t use it in a way that confuses people".

The ads "are broadcasting disinformation, in some cases, really egregious lies about one candidate or the other — this confuses voters," he argued.

Meloni has described surrogacy as "a symbol of an abominable society that confuses desire with rights and replaces God with money".

Over the course of the book, he confuses himself – and the reader – by variously saying that he is middle class, working class and poor.