Salman Rushdie: If We Have Honours Should non-Resident, non-Domiciled Citizens Qualify?

Nancy and Sven may be coming to Manchester, but Padma and Salman are less likely. Their lives are elsewhere. Anywhere else but the UK most of the time as far as I can gather. If anyone knows different please tell LoL by comment or email.

Danny Finkelstein's comment central rather jeers at Tony Parsons in The Mirror who in turn jeers at what he sees as the farce of knighting Salman.

Yes, Tony he is a tedious writer and an arrogant and fortunate man. Yes, Danny he shouldn't be under threat of death for being tedious, arrogant, and irreverent. But should he be Sir Salman Rushdie anyway?

Perhaps there's a clue in the requirement to be a UK Citizen to sign the No 10 petition that Danny links to? Perhaps people should be UK Citizens and full time citizens at that, domiciled and resident for tax purposes, before they get massive and costly police protection and before they get UK honours? Does Mr Rushdie fit the bill? I don't think he does.

OUTERNATIONALS: who cannot sign the No 10 petition can sign here.