Agree. It took me about half an hour* to get the top off, but it was worth it.
(*3 mins)

Proportions roughly 70 gin, 10 vermouth, 20 Cointreau, couple of dashes of bitters

Something like 70-10-20-dash

Today I used this gin. Quite floral (and a pretty bottle)

Well we’re approaching pantomime dame season

Not my fault I’ve got a common name guv

If I got a letter saying “We’ve discovered you, J Jones, were done for gbh so we’re taking away your honour” I’d expect the chance to say you’ve got the wrong bloke. If they ignored me, well …

Never say never. But surely we’re not talking Article 6 here. Would have to be really bad. Mistaken identity or something. (But that would surely be corrected without litigation)

I’ve thought that a decision to remove an honour could in principle be amenable to JR. Could have real-world consequences for an individual’s reputation, employability etc. But in practice a court would never go there. And if decisions to remove, why not decisions *not to award*?

(London)

Imagine doing ANYTHING AT ALL and constantly interrupting it every two minutes to ask everyone around you “do you like me? Is this ok? Please like me! Should I do something completely different so you like me more? I will ask you again next week shall I?”

That’s what government by focus group is.

To my knowledge it never dealt with OM, KG etc. But then (a) they are few in number and (b) you would expect generally the holders are highly reputable so the situation never arises!

Unique in modern times I imagine (the King must hope so). For “ordinary” honours there is official advice for both award & forfeiture. But it’s different for these personal honours. I suppose the monarch takes the risk of the recipient misbehaving! I wonder if any of this will change in future