Every year at about this time I usually find that some celeb I have had a degree of admiration for has eroded their credibility by accepting an archaic gong or title in the New Year's honours list.
My biggest disappointment this year was that 'people's champion' and all round working class hero Bradley Wiggins has picked up a knighthood.
Some will say that it is a small thing and that I should just lighten up. But the honours system is just another prop in the edifice of deference and elitism that bears down on our society.
So let's hear it for Danny Boyle. In many ways the architect of our 'feel good Summer', you can be sure that the powers-to-be were beating a path to his door to offer him a knighthood. And he no doubt would be more deserving than many of the faceless apparatchiks of government who every year collect a gong for just turning up.
But it seems he turned it down. This shouldn't be a surprise - he's on the record as saying that in the Olympic opening ceremony he wanted to celebrate being British from the point of being 'an equal citizen'.
Perhaps one day when we've finally scrapped all the fore-lock tugging and royal bollocks that makes up the honour's system, we can put Danny Boyle in charge of a peoples' awards ceremony.