The Telegraph had an injunction against it by Sir Philip Green, a mega-rich UK businessman. That injunction has now been lifted and we can read the accusations here.
The article may be paywalled where you are.
There’s much more in the article, of course.
And he apparently made the cardinal mistake of threatening the newspaper.
It’s grim reading. In general the UK is over sexual harassment of women and racism but there are clearly holdouts. It’s just taking longer than we thought.
You sound like the clueless white Americans who proclaimed that racism ceased to be a significant thing in America in the 1970s. How on Earth do you feel comfortable making such a sweeping statement?
Male white privilege. Of course he will deny it, and even deny such a thing exists.
My understanding of Quartz’s statement was that the UK is ‘over’ sexual harassment and racism as in SICK TO FUCKING DEATH of sexual harassment and racism as in WANTING TO SEE AN END TO IT YESTERDAY. Not that the UK is a sexual harassment and racism free zone.
I might be wrong though.
You are correct.
The fact that you called him Sir Phillip was kinda weird to me. I think I’d personally drop the honorific for someone like this.
But then that led me to wondering: I can drop it, but can the Queen rescind it? And, if she can, is it something that is actually done?
You may recall that I have this thing about presumption of innocence. The Telegraph’s story has yet to be proven true. It’s almost certain, of course, but we’ll see.
The first person who came to mind was Fred Goodwin who was stripped of his knighthood for his role in the banking crisis.
The BBC have another article about people who have had their knighthoods taken away.
Okay, apologies. Thanks for clarifying.
It’s nearly a rule there, isn’t it? “Better that a hundred guilty blokes be called ‘sir’ than one innocent billionaire knighted chap be addressed by his ordinary commoner name,” or something to that effect.
Well, to be fair, Quartz is shortening the honorific as well. The full title is “Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green, Utter Cunt”.
You might say that but I couldn’t possibly comment. 
It loses something in text-only because when we say Sir for a slimy piece of shit like Green it is really pronounced “Sir” and fairly drips with sarcastic contempt.
It’s all in the delivery.
Even the most ardent monarchists don’t really gives a fuck about honours. Some of them are awarded for worthy stuff like curing polio but mostly they’re meaningless platitudes (and sometimes they’re straight-up rewards for political contributions). Nice to have, of course, but it’s like being named U.S. Ambassador to Tahiti; it doesn’t mean you’re an expert on Tahitian politics or anything.
Again, you might say that and again, I couldn’t possibly comment.
I think there’s no doubt Jimmy Savile would have been stripped of his honours had his crimes been fully exposed while he was alive.
So… why are you pitting an “innocent man?”
Anyways, once you’ve had enough of him over in Britain, there’s several open positions in Trump’s candidate. He can fit right in.
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