Saturday 22 July 2023

Old Mold

In her time, Ann Clwyd fought both for coal and for Julian Assange. But she will always be the Paper Tigress, 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 was Roberts. Yet she chose 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.

2 comments:

  1. The poor woman has only just died.

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