The Scandal Pushing Peers Into the Abyss
An honors system that looks like harmless pageantry hides a degree of venality and cronyism no self-respecting democracy should tolerate.
David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch is a British writer, broadcaster, and newspaper columnist, most recently for The Times of London. He is also the author of the books Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists, and of the Notes From the Underground Substack newsletter.
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