BONG! This week we had the news that Big Ben will be silenced for four years for repairs to be carried out.

Some people managed to be outraged at this for various reasons.

In the midst of the ding-dong over whether one of the great symbols of the UK should be hushed I learned another fact.

The tower which houses Big Ben known as the Clock Tower or St Stephen’s Tower to some, has been renamed.

It is now called the Elizabeth Tower, it was changed to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 announced by David Cameron.

It seems as though the entire country is being renamed the Elizabeth this or that.

Glasgow’s shiny new hospital previously the South Glasgow University Hospital was renamed the Queen Elizabeth University hospital.

It’s not as though we are short of medical pioneers in Glasgow that we need to resort to naming a flagship hospital after the monarch.

I’m sure Her Majesty has many talents but I don’t think she has made any medical breakthroughs or performed life-saving operations.

The new aircraft carrier partly built on the Clyde was named Queen Elizabeth. Again her naval warfare expertise is something I will need to look up.

There is a lovely forest park right in the middle of Scotland in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park with lochs, munros, forest trails, wildlife and walking and cycling to keep you occupied for days.

For some reason it has been named, you guessed it, the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park.

It doesn’t need a name, it is already in a park which has a name.

Are our public bodies so filled with forelock tugging sycophants, desperate for a royal visit to open their facility, that they scurry to name it after the Queen.

The Queen seems a reasonable woman. I’m sure she would consider visiting and performing the official opening of these places if they were called something else. It’s her job after all

Or does she sit at home with Prince Philip as he opens the mail.

Phil: “Some pen pusher wants you to go to Glasgow to open a hospital, dear.”

Liz: “What are they calling it?”

Phil: “Glasgow’s New Hospital.”

Liz: “Tell them to take a running jump.”

If we want to name things after people, surely there are enough people of note who are relevant in those fields worthy of being honoured with having a facility named after them.

Or just call them what they are.

In Glasgow the New Southern General Hospital would have been a perfectly satisfactory name. It’s a hospital, it’s new, it used to be called the Southern General.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the Queen.

In London there is a famous tower which houses a clock. So it was called the Clock Tower. There was no need to give it a new name.

The forest, as far as I’m aware, has no special relevance to the Queen. Tom Weir Forest Park would have been more suited.

Bong! Public facility named after somebody other than the Queen.