Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,The Bank of England has spent more than £85,000 of research money to justify wiping Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner and Alan Turing off Britain's banknotes and swapping them for hedgehogs, foxes and puffins.A Freedom of Information trail shows Savanta was paid £49,000 to run focus groups that told officials historical figures were "elitist and divisive."Another £22,500 went on public consultations about which animals should replace them. The Bank called the result a "positive evolution," not censorship.Bank of England spent £85,000 on research to justify dropping Winston Churchill and other British heroes from...