• Boaty McBoatface has tickled lots of us – but some things just don’t need a name | Ian Jack

    Boaty McBoatface has tickled lots of us – but some things just don’t need a name | Ian Jack
    The craze for naming trains, planes and boats peaked around the middle of the last century, when anything from a Derby winner to a public school could end up on the side of a locomotive. Sometimes inanimate anonymity will sufficeThe Natural Environment Research Council recently invited the public to suggest names for its forthcoming research vessel, currently being built on the Mersey at a cost of £200m, which will study the ice sheets, marine life and ocean currents of Antarctic

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