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Letter: It would be a sweeter forest by any other name

Published 6 September 2017

From Jan Meulendijk, Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire, UK

I am saddened that the rest of the world will have to take measures to counter the destructive actions of Donald Trump. Even so, I am all in favour of the global tree-planting project reported by Olive Heffernan (26 August, p 24). But I must take issue with its name.

I suggest another that does not allow the twisted mind to take any sort of credit. There are far too many Trump-thises and Trump-thats in the world already. Time for a new term: perhaps the Untrumping Forest?

Issue no. 3142 published 9 September 2017

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