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I'm really glad that the long-running English coastal path project is finally on the verge of completion. It's a very good thing and I've been following its development over many years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dxexdd8xo

But for crying out loud does *everything* have to be named after royal people now? This is nuts. Do you know what the coastal path in Wales is called? It's called the Wales Coast Path/Llwybr Arfordir Cymru. It's not named after anyone. Because why would it be? The whole damn point is that the sea and the shore belong to all of us.

And we've all seen the stories about councils and public bodies having to figure out what to do with all the things with the name Prince Andrew attached to them, perhaps there's a lesson there about not naming things after people purely because they happen to have a particular ancestor.

What a shitty way to blemish an otherwise deeply good bit of news. Stop with the grovelling already.

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