The article discusses the right-wing backlash against London mayor Sadiq Khan receiving a knighthood in the New Year Honors list. It analyzes the reasons behind the criticism and compares Khan's situation to other recipients like Stephen Fry and Gareth Southgate.
There’s a very right-wing furore over the London mayor’s appearance on the new year honours list. But if not him, who? Let’s start with an impression. Move towards the window, shake your fist and yell “Aaaaargh”. Then “Waaaaaaaah!” Now scream “Grrrrrrrrrrrr … I don’t believe it”. Well done, that’s the cry of the right-wing Tory/Reformite bird today, reacting to the news that London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan , has been awarded a knighthood. We all do it a bit.
There never was an honours list to delight everyone. The very fact of an honours list annoys very many people and that’s fair enough, because the system is heroically flawed in terms of who gets them, how the recipients are chosen and what they are called. Congratulations to, Kemi Badenoch’s shadow home secretary. He is a man whose stature would easily allow him to enter the Commons through a political catflap, but no matter – he’s against Khan and his media hitmen hate Khan, so today, they fly in tandem. What’s this about, you may ask. Is Khan the least-deserving person ever to profit from this flawed system? That can’t be so. In 2014, David Cameron’s barber, he was knighted. There’s strategy here. Look at the other headline names. Stephen Fry gets a knighthood. Good for him, he’s a national treasure in many ways: a whole generation of parents will thank him, for example, for enchanting and soothing their children with his masterly readings of the Harry Potter books. The Tory bird gains no advantage attacking him. Then there is Gareth Southgate, now Sir Gareth. The Tory bird pecked at him a while back, framing a narrative that the then England football manager was far too woke, with all his embracing of multiculturalism and taking the knee. But that didn’t go so well and darn it if he didn’t take a perennially overexpectant, underperforming, afraid-of-its-own-shadow England to two major finals and a semi-final. So as a potential, headline-grabbing target for the Tory bird, he’s best left alone
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