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New Years Honours 2
James Cordon gets a gong.
Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't.
They are messing with our minds.
Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't.
They are messing with our minds.
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They've always been rewards for retiring civil servants, political hacks and the like, part of a career path, not earned by any personal distinction.
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presumably the queen was unaware of Harris's activities, since she got him to paint her. Pretty well everyone was unaware of them. I don't know how you think the honours committee should have found otu about them.
On the other hand, everyone knows what Fiona Woolf has doen wrong. It's improper that she should get a damehood, even for "being Lord Mayor".
On the other hand, everyone knows what Fiona Woolf has doen wrong. It's improper that she should get a damehood, even for "being Lord Mayor".
If these awards were mostly uncalled for in the past.......surely this is the time to overhaul the whole thing......Joan Collins a dame?.....charity work? I hear you cry....well maybe if she has gone above and beyond......but I nearly choked on my wheatybangs this morning when it was mentioned she went to RADA.....bliddy heck.....if what she has produced is called acting then Benedict Cumberbatch should be in line for immortality.
JNO...I agree that not many of us knew about Harris, but Savile and Smith abused children for years and years....long before they received their gongs.
In the case of Savile, it is inconceivable that the powers to be were unaware of his crimes, as he now referred as Britain's most prolific sex offender.
Actually, the Queen has no say whatsoever in these things. By the way, it was Lord Steel, David Steel as was, that nominated Smith. Perhaps Steel should have listened to all the rumours that were thick on the ground about the gross amount of Smiths paedophile activities first. If he was unsure, he could always have contacted MI5, After all, they interfered and stymied Police investigation into Smith, long before any awards were made.
In the case of Savile, it is inconceivable that the powers to be were unaware of his crimes, as he now referred as Britain's most prolific sex offender.
Actually, the Queen has no say whatsoever in these things. By the way, it was Lord Steel, David Steel as was, that nominated Smith. Perhaps Steel should have listened to all the rumours that were thick on the ground about the gross amount of Smiths paedophile activities first. If he was unsure, he could always have contacted MI5, After all, they interfered and stymied Police investigation into Smith, long before any awards were made.
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