[lbo-talk] Sir Salman

[Russell Grinker]

As an Oxbridge graduate and a public schoolboy I suppose it's only natural
he should get a knighthood. Pity his avowed secularism and opposition to
'totalitarianism' doesn't include a repudiation of god-given medieval
British class distinctions.

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Rushdie knighted in honours list
Sir Salman was able to return to public life in 1999