AstroTurf™

In 2009, when this ritual of mass town hall disruptions really kicked into gear during the Affordable Care Act debate, Democrats would dismiss the protests as “Astroturf” efforts orchestrated by big donors, rather than real grassroots anger.

Indeed, Marsalek would further task Roussev with another project: a hare-brained scheme to initiate a staged protest at the Kazakh Embassy featuring blood dropped from drones, an astroturf human rights campaign involving Just Stop Oil, a letter addressed to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, advertising on London buses and unrealised deepfake pornographic video of the Kazakh president's son.

He had two turns in the nets before he and fellow batter Harry Brook threw balls to each other on a strip of astroturf away from the rest of England's group.

However, it costs money to use the pitch and players must have bespoke astroturf trainers, making it "financially inaccessible for Dinnington people", Mr Smith says.

In your book, you really focus on the ways in which this is another one of those astroturf efforts that pops up everywhere.