Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
The problem has arisen from them handing out gongs far too early in people's lives just because they won something. Nobody ought to be knighted until at least their 50s and it's possible to take a longer view of their achievements.
Spot on.
To be fair to Murray, he said much the same thing but realised if he had turned it down it no doubt it would have got out somehow given how they tend to leak like sieves these days and caused even more of a fuss