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Telegraph

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for “services to global enterprise”.

Economist

Big donors to political parties get peerages not for “services to industry” or “services to culture” but for services to keeping the prime minister's or the opposition leader's flunkeys in a job.

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