Butchered history

Since it is now acceptable, even mandatory, to re visit 18th century history, can I suggest that a more appropriate target for airbrushing out a name is that of the genocidal war criminal Cumberland?

Cumberland Streets sure - ly must become Butcher’ s Blocks; Cumberland Sausage should be renamed West Yorkshire Pudding and Cumbria needs to reinvent itself as No-name-bria.

Meanwhile, don’t even get me started on the Pc-ness of names with George, Argyll, Buccleuch, etc, in them. Perhaps the ‘What3words’ idea is at least politically agnostic... or then again maybe not?

I understand the 10 Downing Street door way’s three-word location is ‘slurs.this.shark’ Quite. As an old TV programme once said: ‘You may very well think it–I couldn’t possibly comment.’

IAIN MASTERTON

Main Street, Kirknewton