By giving the prize to the EU, the Nobel committee has undermined the excellent work of the other deserving winners of this prize.
Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, provided few directions for how to select winners, except that the prize committees should reward those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".
The Queen is one of the world's biggest winners, though it has to be said, she only got the job through an accident of birth, and loads of other people might have been as good if they had been given the same chance.
Unlikely to be as pleasant on the eye, but no less explosive, that particular showdown is scheduled for Saturday, with the fixture generator having unwittingly maximised excitement among Iceland's football followers by pitting the Premier League's two potential title winners against each other on the final day of the season.
Gomez and Badly Drawn Boy are past winners, and share a vaguely similar approach to songwriting, but in the past solo folk/indie songwriters haven't triumphed at the Mercuries.
But let's be clear, there are no winners here... Every analyst believes it's slowed our growth... Families have gone without paychecks.
The First Division side, winners of the League Cup in 1994, appeared set to become the fifth Scottish Football League side to defeat the Dons in the past four seasons, but five minutes' added time proved to be the undoing of Raith, with the Dons' relentless pressure finally paying off when McDonald met a cross to force a replay.
They signed to Polydor, part of the Universal Music Group, in June 2012 – the night they played a London show given five stars by the Guardian – and were named as winners of the BBC's Sound of 2013 poll in January.
Previous winners include Latika Bourke of Fairfax Media and Sophie McNeil of the ABC.
The cinema has on the whole been kind to Oscar winners large and small, so it is interesting to note that The Artist has not (yet) been a major beneficiary of the so-called Oscar bounce.
But Djokovic won 102 of the available 173 points and hit 45 clean winners to Nadal's 13, with 23 coming off his awesome forehand.
