My initial response to the news that the Bank of England wants to redesign our banknotes was to wonder whether Threadneedle Street’s pointy heads had really thought this through.
Whatever they come up with is all but guaranteed to offend someone, and that’s before you factor in social media to contend with. The latter is populated by armies of people who spend their lives getting offended. They come from the left, and they come from the right, and history tells us that it is remarkably easy to get on the wrong side of all of them.
