Old Mold

Ann Clwyd is to retire. Ann Clwyd, who falsely claimed that Saddam Hussein was feeding people into a giant paper shredder. That lie was widely repeated.

Ann Clwyd's maiden name was Lewis, and her married name is Roberts. Yet she chooses to be known by the name of an administrative unit, as if John Prescott were to call himself John Humberside. That administrative unit was created when she was 37, and abolished when she was 59. 

But she couldn't very well have called herself Ann Flintshire, could she? It's a Kunta Kinte thing. And who would wish to be called Ann Mold? Does even Ann Mold wish to be called Ann Mold? I very much doubt it.