What I’m saying is I don’t notice that. Most of the people I see getting honours are regular folks. There’s a few toffs in there and the rest are people who genuinely did something, and they come from all walks.
The regular folk who aren’t celebrities get minor honors, not knighthoods, and it gets covered to death in the Press how some fireman or nurse got “an honor” and yet they’re never made “Sir” something of “Dame” something-else - the Press always spins it as a great thing and never mentions it’s only the smallest of honors that they’re getting.
If you go see the actual list of Knighthoods and Damehoods (and don’t get me started on Lordships), it’s mainly the moneyed, upper middle class - the kind of people who are in the BBC’s Board, Theatre Directors, heads of banks, owners of large companies and so on - and people in senior positions in the State aparatus.
Call me weird, but I think somebody who risked live and limb to save children from a fire deserves a knighthood much more than somebody who is a CEO of a bank or owner of a supermarket chain.
What I’m saying is I don’t notice that. Most of the people I see getting honours are regular folks. There’s a few toffs in there and the rest are people who genuinely did something, and they come from all walks.
The regular folk who aren’t celebrities get minor honors, not knighthoods, and it gets covered to death in the Press how some fireman or nurse got “an honor” and yet they’re never made “Sir” something of “Dame” something-else - the Press always spins it as a great thing and never mentions it’s only the smallest of honors that they’re getting.
If you go see the actual list of Knighthoods and Damehoods (and don’t get me started on Lordships), it’s mainly the moneyed, upper middle class - the kind of people who are in the BBC’s Board, Theatre Directors, heads of banks, owners of large companies and so on - and people in senior positions in the State aparatus.
Call me weird, but I think somebody who risked live and limb to save children from a fire deserves a knighthood much more than somebody who is a CEO of a bank or owner of a supermarket chain.