Winning nine grands prix and being part of a three-way shootout for the title in 2010 made it an honourable F1 career before he left in 2014 to join Porsche's sports car project, he and his regular co-drivers, Brandon Hartley and Timo Bernhard, becoming world champions last year.
The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it".
There is more to do in this area of course, and my honourable predecessor also made it clear that detaining under 18s in police custody had to go.
The first half of that statement is honourable, the second makes it sound like he wants to be, erm, an honorary black man.
Finally, it is rare that a biography of a Belgian makes it across the Channel, so an honourable mention must go to Pierre Assouline's volume Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin (OUP USA, £16.99).
The strong impression is that they would like Hughes to succeed, and publishing forthright statements about how much they value him makes it more difficult for men claiming honourable virtues to dispose of him.
The Honourable Woman's fair-minded take on the savagely divisive Palestinian question would presumably make it nigh-on impossible to get made in America with its powerful pro-Israel lobbies.
Bercow is usually fastidious about MPs' titles – in July he rebuked the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, for addressing the veteran Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman as an "Honourable Gentleman" when he should have called him a "Right Honourable Gentleman" – but when addressing Sir Simon Burns, the Speaker either omits the title "Sir" or swallows the word so as to make it inaudible.
But he does at least mount an honourable defence of what he did in Massachusetts, even if he can't employ one of the tools that made it work.
He is a quant (maths genius) who made it to a top position in one of the most successful banks in the world: "The vast majority of those working in financial services are decent honourable people doing decent and honourable things.
