A Reason For Honours

Original posting, October 2006

If you think about it, some of the ‘names’ that get honoured have been so for services to the people. These names are the well-known. The so-called ‘celebrities’. In fact they are well known and as a consequence have influence.

Some are principled and decline 'honours'.

The more simple among them can themselves be influenced and circulate any ‘message’ to the people. The brighter ones can say simply what the establishment wants as this is possibly how they got their gong anyway.

This absolutely excludes Paul McCartney. What do you think?

• There is another seedier side to this coin: Fred "The Shred" Goodwin