Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire has admitted that he would rather “fucking stab my eyes out with a pencil” than accept a knighthood or OBE.Speaking in a new interview with MOJO magazine, Wire criticised “left-leaning actors and pop stars” for “queuing up” to accept honours from the monarchy.“I’m so riddled with doubts and contradictions now, even though I still kept to those principles,” he said.“My kids have been through comprehensive education, I still believe in high taxation and all those kind of things, I stay close to my roots … I haven’t abandoned any of those things at all.
But I don’t know if they’re relevant to modern life.“You see supposedly left-leaning actors and pop star queuing up to get MBEs and OBEs – and I’d.
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