Joseph Dinnage has an interesting CAPX piece on the wildlife on banknotes issue. Worth reading, although I'd call it another shift towards infantilisation as well as an act of historic cowardice. A two for one offer we might say.
Churchill vs hedgehogs
In Britain, we have grown up with not only the monarch on our currency, but also with the faces of some of our greatest countrymen and women. Jane Austen, Alan Turing, Winston Churchill, JMW Turner, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin and William Shakespeare: over the years, all these figures and more have appeared on our banknotes, serving as a regular reminder of the world-leading talent Britain is capable of producing.
Yet as the 21st century demonstrates to us with violent regularity, all beauty must die in the name of ‘progress’, and our banknotes will soon bear images of our native fauna, rather than the human beings who actually made this country great.
- Replacing Winston Churchill with hedgehogs on our banknotes is an act of historic cowardice
- The last thing we should be doing is subordinating our history to the politics of progressive interest groups
- If we do not champion our history, it gets forgotten
In Britain, we have grown up with not only the monarch on our currency, but also with the faces of some of our greatest countrymen and women. Jane Austen, Alan Turing, Winston Churchill, JMW Turner, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin and William Shakespeare: over the years, all these figures and more have appeared on our banknotes, serving as a regular reminder of the world-leading talent Britain is capable of producing.
Yet as the 21st century demonstrates to us with violent regularity, all beauty must die in the name of ‘progress’, and our banknotes will soon bear images of our native fauna, rather than the human beings who actually made this country great.
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