” £20 Elgar note withdrawal ‘a national disgrace’ “
As seen in The Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/7861063/20-Elgar-note-withdrawal-a-national-disgrace.html
Once again the Telegraph deems the opinion of some bloke as worthy of printing in their newspaper, whereas we all know that such drivel is the stomping ground of blogs like this.
Professor Jeremy Dibble, from Durham University's music department, says that the replacement of the £20 notes featuring Edward Elgar with notes featuring Adam Smith is a "national disgrace" that "tells us much about the way in which the arts is now viewed in England. Bank notes should applaud the greatest aspects of England and English culture".
Sorry Dibble, but for one we are talking about BANKNOTES here. Items of money. Economists are far more at home on money than musicians are. Furthermore, I would rank Adam Smith's contribution to the modern world as approximately 6,000x more important than that of Elgar. The old notes look like something a 4 year old knocked up in an elderly version of Paintshop Pro before printing on a decrepit inkjet printer with a dirty, clogged 'refil' cartridge anyway.
In conclusion: STFU, Dibble.
June 29th, 2010 - 16:41
More to the point, why has it taken Dibbler-San three years to spot that this was going to happen?
June 29th, 2010 - 17:13
He probably thought that the new £20s were Euros, or otherwise he was too busy rubbing Elgar £20s on his hideously empurpled member while his gramophone (electronic sound reproduction lacks ’soul’) played ‘Land Of Hope And Glory’ again and again.
I’m waiting for the new £50s in winter, featuring Industrial Legends Of Birmingham
June 30th, 2010 - 13:34
They do look like Euro’s, don’t they?
June 30th, 2010 - 13:47
I quite like the general appearance of the new series of notes, if the £5, £10 and £50 look similar (which they should) then we’ll have some damn smart currency.
The outgoing series looks terriblle; the banding on the big numbers looks like an inkjet malfunction, and the text all seems to be slightly the wrong size and in the wrong place.
The previous series to that (of which the current £50 is a survivor) were quite nice, I also liked the fact that George Stevenson was on the £5 and Micheal Faraday on the £20 (replaced by Elizabeth Fry and Edward Elgar). When Boulton and Watt get on the new £50 normal service will have been resumed.