PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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Hazymac
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6/7/2026 12:17:34 PM
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The Bank of England has decided that Winston Churchill, Alan Turing, and Jane Austen are too controversial to appear on British banknotes. So they're replacing them with frogs.
I’m not kidding. Frogs. And foxes. And dolphins. And puffins.
The Bank announced it would phase out portraits of historical figures in favor of native wildlife imagery on its next banknote series.
The official explanation was “security,” but we all know better than to believe that. Writing in The Telegraph earlier this week, Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, said: "The Bank's foremost objective is the security of our banknotes, which includes tackling the threat from counterfeiting."