The law is not designed to easily allow someone to become an ex-royal.
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Whistleblowers should be entitled to financial support. But that has potential costs as well as benefits.
The British public must believe that the right people are being rewarded. Giving a knighthood to Captain Tom Moore is a step in the right direction.
People who do good voluntarily in their own time get the lowest awards. Others get rewarded for holding high-status jobs.
The highest awards go to people who do their jobs. We could be giving them to people who do more.
