Douglas Murray
I’ll soon be the only commoner I know
From
magazine issue:
17 February
2024
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ill-soon-be-the-only-commoner-i-know/
It is
starting to dawn on me that I will soon be the only commoner I know. I am
racking my brains trying to think of anyone I have even met in recent years who
has not been ennobled, and at present I am drawing a blank. Each time I am out
of the UK I return to find another honours list and another batch of peers. By
the time the magazine has gone to press this column’s sub-editor will probably
have been called to the Upper House.
This is not
– I would like to stress – sour grapes. I have no personal desire to be in the
House of Lords. Indeed it always surprises me that anyone would. They can’t
have ever been there. I also vaguely share Kingsley Amis’s views about
accepting titles. Before he did accept one, Amis expressed doubts – the main
one being a fear of embarrassment. Amis feared the idea of entering the
writers’ room in heaven and the names of people being announced as they came
in. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, Vladimir Nabokov. Marcel Proust. Sir Kingsley Amis.’(…)
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