PETER HITCHENS: Thought the honours was done for?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : But it is also possible that an eagle will drop a tortoise on my head, as happened to the great playwright Aeschylus in 455 BC.
54% : Is it ever safe to go out?Boycotting the dreary, unEnglish holiday of New Year, as I always try to do, I made my way to work by train and bicycle, but was denied passage through London's Kensington Gardens - because it was windy that day.
36% : Yet he is now Sir Stephen, while better men and women than him or me, who don't swear in public and don't take illegal drugs, must get by with the tiny baubles of the honours system.
35% : What is objective about Sir Stephen is that he has publicly boasted not just of using illegal drugs, but of using them in places where most of us would try hard to behave ourselves - out of respect for the laws and institutions they represent.

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