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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/16/new-50-note-must-become-uks-first-bank-note-feature-ethnic-minority/
Attlee or Khan, however, would mean that alongside Churchill on the fiver, we'd have two banknotes with second world war connections. Put a line through Bader for the same reason, and probably also Turing.
Stephen Hawking probably died too recently and has a book out in time for Christmas, and the Bank of England is not in the billboards game, so no.
Aneurin Bevan founded the NHS but perhaps his "lower than vermin" quote might be a tad strong for some.
Seacole, Fawcett and Pankhurst have recently gained statues in the Westminster area so their supporters may be assuaged.
James Clerk Maxwell is worth a second glance, as the scientist has been compared to Einstein for combining electricity and magnetism. He'd get the Scottish vote as well, but they already have Adam Smith on the £20 note for the next few years.
If we've ruled out Turing but want to celebrate Britain's place as computing pioneers then look down the list to Ada Lovelace at 50/1 -- a woman and arguably the world's first computer programmer for her work with Babbage.
Oh, and first on-topic.
Third (on topic) like Boris!
Before reading your post I thought i) Woman ii) Science then iii) Ada Lovelace - agree.
Thatcher might be a suitable candidate in fifty years - but she's far too polarising a figure for today.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-australia-indonesia/australia-insists-trade-agreement-with-indonesia-on-track-despite-israel-comments-idUKKCN1MR012
*Some argue 'lower middle' but with father a carpenter & mother a maid, I'd say 'working'
https://twitter.com/chrisshipitv/status/1052392769040322560
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1051951042189910016?s=21
https://twitter.com/reutersuk/status/1052395217607905280?s=21
I'd not go for Stephen Hawking who, whilst a genius, possibly wasn't quite as influential in his field as is thought. If he was to appear, it might be for the way he showed people with severe disabilities can still contribute, rather than anything to do with physics.
I'd go for Turing, for three reasons:
1) He represents everyone who helped the war effort, whether at the front lines or back at home.
2) He represents the way society has moved on, with the 'crime' that sadly led to his death now being seen as an injustice.
3) He's more of an everyman than many others on the list; he was from an upper middle-class background rather than a 'posh' one.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknotes
(I’d also agree there are other reasons Mrs T won’t be on there)
As was said to be a likely possibility later in the article though that gets overlooked and everything after the SHOULD but before the BUT gets quoted.
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1052286526263054337
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1970-1991 Shakespeare (£20)
1971-1991 Duke of Wellington (£5)
1975-1994 Florence Nightingale (£10)
1978-1988 Sir Isaac Newton (£1)
1981-1996 Sir Christopher Wren (£50)
1990-2003 George Stephenson (£5)
1991-2001 Michael Faraday (£20)
1992-2003 Charles Dickens (£10)
1994-2014 Sir John Houblon (£50) - no, me neither...first governor of the BoE
1999-2010 Sir Edward Elgar (£20)
2002-2017 Elizabeth Fry (£5)
2000-2018 Charles Darwin (£10)
Current
2007 - Adam Smith (£20)
2011 - Matthew Boulton and James Watt (£50)
2016 - Sir Winston Churchill (£5)
2017 - Jane Austen (£10)
Future
2020 - JMW Turner (£20)
And the process involved for selecting characters:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/banknote-characters
May has been a disaster on the back-stop. Should never have been anything the EU could ever suggest had been pocketed as agreed. It's Negotiating 1.01. Never leave anything on the table that will kill the deal.
https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/1052442480929660928
Hawking and Turing are good tips. I also fancy Frank Whittle and Lord Nelson, who I can very much see on a banknote.
Given its 100 years since woman’s suffrage it’s not impossible Pankhurst or Fawcett pip it either, but they might be too political for the £50 note.
In 2014, we introduced a new method of selecting banknote characters: the Banknote Character Advisory Committee selects the field that we want to represent and we ask the public to nominate people from the chosen field.
For example, in 2015, we announced that we would feature someone from the visual arts on the next £20 note. There was a huge response to the call for nominations: nearly 30,000 were made, covering 590 people from the visual arts. These included painters, sculptors, printmakers, craftspeople, designers, ceramicists, architects, fashion designers, photographers and filmmakers.
It'll make up for that sh*t Newton having been on a note ...
(Incidentally, he was great friends with Sir Christopher Wren, who has also appeared on a note. It is quite possible that some Wren churches were actually designed by Hooke.)
There is a consistency here and it resolves around someone you used to call I believe a Poundshop Gordon Brown.
£5 - Churchill - Politics
£10 - Austen - Literature
£20 - upcoming - Turner - visual arts
£50 - Boulton & Watt - Engineering
So that rules out a lot of the favourites....
J.M.W TURNER
Barbara Hepworth
Charlie Chaplin
Josiah Wedgwood
William Hogarth
Khan.
Seacole is an inferior version of Nightingale. Attlee did a lot, but Thatcher almost certainly more (funny how being a woman doesn't get her automatic brownie points).
From memory, Khan actually did a lot for this country, pleasing the patriotic crowd, and she's a minority and a woman, pleasing the box-tickers.
An interesting choice, as she only rose to fame in one of her films.
I suspect Italy will be a bigger issue than Brexit today. Itlaians telling Juncker to clear off and ignoring his threats.
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/16/economia/manovra-scontro-tra-juncker-e-salvini-moscovici-a-roma-con-un-occhio-al-quirinale-p94wZgF9fmXO6fh6hSdweN/pagina.html
I keep forgetting her name, but the author of the Scarlet Pimpernel, who has a claim to have invented the superhero genre, would be another interesting choice.
Turing's on the list, and though he'd be worthy I doubt he'll get it (wrong gender, which is rather ironic).
Won't happen, but I'l quite like to see Alfred the Great on there. Or William Marshal. Which does raise a question: are historical figures preceding the union of crowns considered verboten, as they're English, rather than (English and) British?
Capability Brown
Robert Adam
Robert Boyle
Alexander Fleming
Elizabeth Fry
Joseph Lister
William Caxton
Joseph Banks
John Flamsteed
William Booth
Anthony Ashley Cooper
Josephine Butler
William Wilberforce
Robert Owen
Mary Somerville
John Reith
Charles Babbage
Thomas Barnado
William Beveridge
John Howard
Samuel Plimsoll
Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel Johnson
James Murray
John Logie Baird
James Clerk-Maxwell
Humphry Davy
John Loudon McAdam
Dorothy Garrod
Reginald Munns
John Stirk
Charles Francis Brush (unlikely!)
We run focus groups to help us identify which characters on the longlist would resonate strongly with people, and which might cause concern.
The committee then agrees a final shortlist, based on the focus group feedback and detailed historical research about each of the characters. The shortlist also reflects our intention to portray a diverse range of characters over time.
I'm not sure auto-translate has it quite right but we get the idea...
Our spooks know their jobs.
No reason for Treasury to get involved AT ALL.
Would take the opinion of a QC over a Treasury lawyer any day of the week:
https://lawyersforbritain.org/we-dont-owe-the-eu-any-money
This is quite a horrid way to die:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45882998
bullying is horrendous but lets not move Bercow
Of the other names from the 60s list I think Wilberforce, Logie Baird and Graham Bell have the best chance.
Funny, because that is what DD told her to do.
Remainers have stuffed up the negotiation. Once EU knew May would submit on everything, they offered nothing. Time for the Leavers to take over. Unfortunately thanks to May this will have to be fixed after no deal exit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renkioi_Hospital
What she did do was specify what the hospital should have in it, e.g. airflow and the conditions inside.
As ever, don't trust anything you hear on QI ...
I think the UK has some poor politicians but on this evidence the malaise is even worse in Ireland...
And a few for SeanT. What about Oscar Wilde, E M Forster, John Maynard Keynes and John Gielgud. Four men who stood out in their respective fields and produced works of lasting significance. Neither were they men afraid to go against the accepted norms of the time.
She still did excellent work, of course.
I stopped watching QI after about the second series. Any topic that came up, which I knew a little about, seemed to be factually dubious. They play it more for laughs than for facts.