Brenda calls Michael Palin a cunt.

[Del Usory]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46700430

John Redwood knighted.

[Duncan Gardner]

Ps after sweating on the secret for weeks, I can proudly confirm not one but two baubles- I'm joining Seanad Eireann's Angry Culchie panel as the token diasporan, and also the House of Lords (Baron Yahoo of Lilliput). All titles should include a mild abuse for political opponents plus the street where you played as a child

[Del Usory]

Lord Centrist of Avoca

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Fella I used to work with has been announced for an MBE, for his charity work. It's not sort of thing I'd welcome myself, but I'm pleased for him.

[George C.]

Pure sh*te, end of.

More feudal cap doffing.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

I don't really understand most of what DG's post means, and I'm worried that some of it might be true.

[Del Usory]

Is it the concept of an honours system to which you object, or the fatuous trappings of empire which encase it?

[Duncan Gardner]

I don't really understand most of what DG's post means, and I'm worried that some of it might be true

Sorry about that

Lilliput Street is real- Ken Branagh, Carl Frampton, Jimmy Galway and I lived in neighboring streets as kids. When Swift's cottage was on the site it was a field a mile out of town.

I do have an acquaintance/ colleague in the HoL, Baroness Mouselcoomb (nee Jenny Jones). At the last Party Conference, she chided me for jumping the queue at registration- it seems that past membership of the organising committee trumps anything Ruritanian...

As for our Southern friends- I'm already a member of Comhantas Glas (Green Party in Ireland) and should get a passport soon, so why not?

[N est à?]

"Thought i might have been in line for some little... trinket. Knight of the bath, maybe"

"You never have one!"

[Hot Pepsi]

If anyone deserves it, Michael Palin does, but it’s all a bit silly.

Nobody should get knighted unless they actually can swing a big sword while riding a horse and are prepared to die a grisly death in glorious battle to defend the realm.

[Bored Of Education]

The only noteworthy thing about the whole Honours System irrelevance is that they have delayed all awards associated with those involved in the rescue at Grenfell until after the Inquiry.

[elguapo4]

If anyone deserves it, Michael Palin does, but it’s all a bit silly.

Nobody should get knighted unless they actually can swing a big sword while riding a horse and are prepared to die a grisly death in glorious battle to defend the realm.

I guarantee John Redwood sees himself just like that.

[Hot Pepsi]

Then he should have to prove it on the tournament field.

[johnr]

I can't see why Michael Palin deserves one at all.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

He should have got one in 1979 for Barnestoneworth.

[Eggchaser]

If he doesn't say, "Ni!" I will be sorely disappointed.