Young Fry knighted. I can no longer call him Mistress Fry.

JK2006 wrote:
Young Fry knighted. I can no longer call him Mistress Fry.

I knew it would happen when Charlie became King.

Oh that's great news...

My lips are sealed on what I think of this appointment.

Some great awards; Kazuo one of my favourite writers; Carey superb actress ditto Sarah and Anne; Eddie Marsan a huge idol; PO Victims great; best list in ages.

hedda wrote:
My lips are sealed on what I think of this appointment.

If he's done some good things for mental health issues then fair enough, whatever that actually is, but so do lots of other people without a media profile and they get nothing.

I really rate people like David Bowie who turned down a knighthood, as did Stephen Hawking.

John Cleese turned down a peerage and a CBE.

And what about Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders refusing OBE's for services to drama, Saunders saying - "If I felt I deserved a damehood I'd accept it. At the time we felt that we were being paid very well to have a lot of fun. It didn't seem right somehow. We didn't deserve a pat on the back. It felt a bit fake to stand alongside people who devoted their lives to truly worthy causes."

All this "services to" justification guff which in nearly all cases means just doing their bloody job that they also got made a decent amount for.

Other refusniks of honours are Roald Dahl, Paul Weller, Nigella Lawson, Jon Snow, Bernie Ecclestone, Ken Loach, Rudyard Kipling, Honor Blackman (irony indeed), Jim Broadbent, Albert Finney and George Harrison, the latter was offered an OBE the year before he passed away, just after McCartney got a Knighthood. No wonder he refused.

The bad news is Sadiq Khan and Gareth Southgate Knighted. This is rewarding failure. Knife crime is through the roof and the ULEZ zone went down like a cup of cold sick and affects the poorest people most, who can't afford new cars.

I thought Gareth did fantastically. You cannot win everything; he got bloody close.

How can anyone who kicks balls about and tells grown men in shorts to run around on a piece of turf deserve a Knighthood? Khan has been a fucking disgrace to Londoners but he is doing the bidding for WEF. Hence, a Knighthood.

And Shakespeare just wrote down what came into his head.

If Londoners loathe Khan so much...how come he keeps winning the elections?

Green Man wrote:
How can anyone who kicks balls about and tells grown men in shorts to run around on a piece of turf deserve a Knighthood? Khan has been a fucking disgrace to Londoners but he is doing the bidding for WEF. Hence, a Knighthood.

How long did the man who actually captained the England team to win the World Cup have to wait to get a knighthood?

Oh, he didn't actually get one. He got just an OBE. Ramsey the manager got the K, six months later in the 1967 honours. Didn't other members of this team have to wait decades for any honour?

Why are we dripping gongs over all these also rans like this? Golfers getting honours always amazes me. The world of sport provides its own honours and trophies by being WINNERS.

I am lost when it comes to sport Rich - but getting a Knighthood etc for doing something you enjoy is a disgrace. Later in the year, I will nominate my local milkman or the paperboy.


Footballers get medals for being runners-up so they are not all winners. Every day we see people keep the country running and the public fed but are ignored.

Look at the demographics around London Cat.