ESTABLISHMENT SIGN-UP SHEET FULL OF GLITZ - and a quick look at this morning's front pages

Shut the fuck up, Queen - you've made Terry Wogan a knight? The question, of course, is what djs who used to describe him as "Sir Terence of Wogan" anyway will now call him - presumably his official cheesey dj title will be "Sir Sir Terence of Wogan Wogan"; or something.

For Terry, it'll make up for being edged out as most important man in radio this week; not only was that just a Radio Times quiet-week space filler, but the man who beat him to the coveted number one spot, Jonathan Ross, has only been given an OBE. The Times takes the opportunity to, um, mock his speech impediment:



It's interesting that the Times chooses to lead with Ross, actually - most of the other papers are much more thrilled by the knighthood for David Jason (the Queen apparently insists "it's for his work on A Sharp Intake of Breath and nothing more, right?") - and, more surprisingly, only the Mirror pulls off the Wogan/Jason rhyme:



Also getting a trip to London, a warm handshake and a small box with a medal in is Midge Ure, who's been told that his prize is as much for his music as for his charity work - but then he's also told that his charity work is helping the people of Africa, where actually his real role is ensuring Bob Geldof doesn't sink the entire boat, and he seems happy enough with that. And Brian May gets a CBE, which is because the Queen wants to see what his hair looks like close-up.

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