It’s a funny ole world. Lewis Hamilton wins 7 Grand Prix titles and gets nothing (the 50 mil a year simply doesn’t ‘count’, we’re not talking ‘monetary gain’ here) other than a few lumps of cut glass to put on his mum’s mantelpiece. Then he loses a championship, in the most spectacular, violent and brutal manner possible, and they give him a knighthood.

And I looked at this picture and thought: WTF??? What century was this taken???

I know, that’s what makes Britain the greatest place in the world. That we have an unquestionable class system in which one family, just One Family, has the unquestionable, unalienable, unique and exclusive right to bestow ‘class’ upon others, thus ‘ennobling’ them for all time. Amen. ‘For God and the King.’ But not necessarily in that order.

And Lewis Hamilton, for whom I have nothing but the utmost respect and reverence for as the finest driver possibly that the world has ever produced, is actually a bit of a trumped-up little shit. More so after his brush with Charles’s sword yesterday. Sir Trumped-up-little-Shit.

Because Lewis uses his position in the sporting limelight for political statement. He always has, and a credit to him for it. But the sort of political statement he likes to engage is of the ‘right-on’ variety. He supports BLM, rightly so; he wears a rainbow helmet in Shariah countries to make a stand for LGBTQ…and undecideds, he wants to be something of a social warrior. A fighter for the underdog, a campaigner against racism, against elitism, against the unfair distribution of privilege.

And yet he didn’t decline the honour, as so many have. Like John Cleese, like Alan Bennett, Stephen Hawking, David Hockney and the wonderful David Bowie.

Because this photo is, quite frankly, ludicrous. If I held a sword against someone’s neck I’d get arrested. But Bonnie Prince Charlie does it, even dressed up as an admiral, and knighthoods come flying out of the tip. All of which goes to sustain the equally ludicrous ‘class system’ which is so deep-rooted in our nation as to be the main source of division and inequality. In education, employment, virtually everything.

But Lewis suspended his right-on woke-i-ness just long enough to become knighted. I’m afraid he has diluted and weakened his normal political stance.

Happy Thursday

Lord Conway of Gants Hill, KCM, GCI, FBI, UB40…
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