The death of Eric Hobsbawm has created a vacancy in the Order of Companions of Honour.
Especially after today, it ought to go to the former Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.
Bless.
Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Very droll. But who do you think that it is really going to be?
ReplyDeleteIf I were a betting man, which I am not, then I'd plump for Seb Coe.
ReplyDeleteBut Lilibet has not yet been in touch to ask my advice.