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Winston Churchill note dropped by Bank of England after being told he was ‘elitist’ | UK | News

Winston Churchill note dropped by Bank of England after being told he was ‘elitist’ | UK | News

Wartime hero Sir Winston Churchill could be replaced by an image of an animal (Image: Getty) Wartime hero Sir Winston Churchill was erased from our nation’s currency after the Bank of England was told he was “elitist and divisive”, it is claimed. The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, a once common nickname for the bank, announced it was phasing out historic titans such as Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen in favour of wildlife because to keep ahead of fraudsters getting better at replicating faces. And the Governor of the Bank of England wrote in the Telegraph this week: “The Bank’s foremost objective is the security of our banknotes, which includes tackling the threat from counterfeiting.” But a Freedom of Information request by the Telegraph has uncovered revealing findings from an October 2025 report commissioned by the bank with the market research consultancy, Savanta. The King has featured on notes since 2024 (Image: Getty) According to the paper, the report found historical figures represented “a backward-looking vision of the UK that carries too great a …

Contempt Of Court: Justice Sotomayor Suggests Justice Kavanaugh Is An Uninformed Elitist

Contempt Of Court: Justice Sotomayor Suggests Justice Kavanaugh Is An Uninformed Elitist

Authored by Jonathan Turley, Justice Brett Kavanaugh is accustomed to unrelenting personal attacks from the left that began with his nomination to the Court. This week, however, the ad hominem insults came not from cable programs but a colleague.  Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law to level a personal dig at Kavanaugh as an out-of-touch elitist. I have long criticized the growing number of public statements by justices on controversial subjects and cases, including Justice Sotomayor. However, this appearance represented a new low in lashing out at a colleague as effectively blinded by his own privilege. In her comments, Sotomayor raised Kavanaugh’s concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo: “I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops. This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour… Those hours that they took you away, nobody’s paying that person. And that makes a difference between a meal for him and his kids that night and maybe just cold …

Ricky Gervais lashes out at ‘middle-class, elitist’ critics in new stand-up special

Ricky Gervais lashes out at ‘middle-class, elitist’ critics in new stand-up special

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Ricky Gervais has hit back at critics in his new Netflix special Mortality, released on Tuesday (30 December). The comedian and co-creator of The Office, 64, filmed the stand-up show at the London Palladium earlier this year, during which he took the opportunity to call out what he described as “middle-class” and “elitist” critics of his work. He told the live audience: “It’s great to hear this sort of laughter again, because you probably don’t notice it as much as comedians, but we’ve had a really weird 10 years where we’re really second-[guessing jokes]. “People find anything offensive, but we pushed back and we won. So f*** them. Until the next time. They haven’t gone away. They’re just licking their wounds. They’ll be back with something madder. But remember who it is next time? Right? “It’s always these sort of educated, …