Sir Simon Cowell

In light of the outraged and indignant flurry of objection to the mention of a Simon Cowell knighthood, I am moved to comment.

Simon Cowell is an unusually talented businessman.  He has made millions upon millions on a simple premise.

You cant overestimate the public stupidity. 

Personally I am in awe of his achievements. Making people stupid enough to pay you in direct proportion to their stupidity. It has a beautiful symmetry to it. He is a true revolutionary capitalist. He has exposed with a surgeons precision the nations desperate need to feel superior to those even less talented than themselves. Making stupid people perform for stupid people in a self perpetuating ritual of mutual intellectual mould and moral abuse whilst demonstrating a quite brilliant ability to turn every aspect of the dumbing process into a personally remunerative opportunity. Record Companies pay TV for promotional time for their acts. He gets the TV to pay him to monopolize air time for his sole use. 

He embodies the spirit of capitalist greed better than anyone - expect perhaps the guy in the Michael Moore movie who put innocent kids in the Prison he owned for his personal gain- but give Simon a little more time and I'm sure he will come up with something even more tasteful than that. All in the name of ''Light relief'.

In terms of British excellence in a specific discipline - in this case Capitalist greed - he is without peer. Clearly, if Simon wanted to be made a peer, he could have made that happen with ease and no doubt he will decide when the timing is right for that to happen. He has the dumb vote and if we have learned anything from the Simon Cowell success story, it is the dumb who decide.