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Stephen Pollard

Opinion

The key facts

June 15, 2009 16:53
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I'm back.

To the important news that Christopher Lee has been knighted. As Michael Gove writes today:

The Queen reads The Times.

How else to explain Her Majesty's wonderful decision at the weekend to mark
her birthday by knighting Christopher Lee? For years we have been
campaigning restlessly in The Times for this honour and now the Queen has
acted, Sir Christopher can relax in style. With his arms crossed over his
chest. In the soil of his native earth.