There’s a line I’ve thought about on and off for the best part of a decade but never had reason to share – until now. Back in 2015, the French economist and author of the best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty, revealed he had turned down the Légion d’honneur. His reasoning? “I do not think it is the government’s role to decide who is honourable.”
But that’s not the quote I remember. That dubious honour belongs to Tanya Gold, who remarked:
