For those of you whose republican instincts are uncomfortable with a "knighthood" for Irish citizens, even a "honorary" one, the unlikely destination of the Mail on Sunday is your one stop shop for bashing of the announcement that Bono is to get one. A news article supplies the background details to the odd manner of the announcement, made a week ahead of schedule and first revealed by the British Embassy in Dublin before a press release from Downing Street -- all part of what the Mail suspects was a stunt by Labour to grab some cheap news coverage before the meeja go to sleep for a week.
Completing the slam is Christopher's brother Peter Hitchens, with a contribution that reads like he was given a quick look at the news article and told to fire off something in half an hour, so he goes for the tried and trusted digs like --
It is hard to see why Mr Paul Hewson, a right-on citizen of a Republic that rejected the British Crown and stormed out of the British Empire, should even want to belong to the Order of the British Empire, let alone be a Knight Commander of it.
But it is easy to see why that increasingly pitiful and comic figure, Anthony Blair, should want to be a Knight Commander of the Order of Rock Music.
His slurping, toadying message to the new knight ("I am a huge fan"), the matey press release from Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy in Dublin, are all signs of a man utterly devoted to stealing the fame and popularity of other people, having squandered or besmirched his own with stupid warmongering and fishy fundraising.
So he remains to the right of Christopher on the Empire and yet to the left of him on the Iraq war. And he closes --
It wouldn't have been much more ludicrous if the [lawsuit] trousers had been given the KBE and, come to think of it, perhaps Mr Biscuit's [Bono] surgically-attached sunglasses should qualify for a knighthood of their own, since they've played such a large part in his rise to the ranks of chivalry.
Incidentally, the news story part of the package also notes Bono's connections to this set.
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