It's time to give rugby league heroes Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield knighthoods when further delay will reek of snobbery.
The clamour is growing after the country was moved to tears by Sinfield carrying his old team-mate, wracked by motor neurone disease, over the finish line at a marathon.
Sinfield’s kiss as he placed pal Burrow back in his wheelchair was an act of love deserving official recognition after the pair have raised millions for research into the disease.
Tens of thousands who have signed petitions for knighthoods suspect had they played posh rugby union instead of working-class rugby league they would already be Sirs.
Bureaucratic rules about five-year delays between gongs are a smokescreen blown away before when it suits the great and the good.
Maybe Sinfield’s coaching role with England rugby union will see a wrong corrected.
If the inspirational pals are not recognised, the Establishment should brace itself for a massive backlash.
Putin sinking
The destruction of a massive dam in Russian-occupied Ukraine is another war crime against civilians.
As thousands flee floodwaters raging across the Kherson region, the finger of blame points at Vladimir Putin ’s beleaguered forces.
The sabotage could backfire by threatening water supplied to Russian-held Crimea.
But it also creates headaches for Kyiv as it prepares an onslaught to push the enemy out of Ukrainian territory.
Yesterday’s terrifying attack is added to the growing list of outrages by a Putin war machine that fights dirty but will never win.
Pint to prove
A Wetherspoon fan is to complete the longest pub crawl in history today.
Dave Bingham will toast his success when he visits the 875th boozer belonging to chain after forking out a sobering £30,000.
The four-year odyssey to drink in every ‘Spoons must be a Guinness world record.
