Whoa! I didn't even know you could turn a prince into a knight. I thought that was a demotion or something. Like swapping a king or a queen for a castle in chess, or a turning an Autobot into a Decepticon halfway through a Transformers movie.

But Prime Minister Tony Abbott has done it again. He's crossed the streams, maxed out the flux capacitor and taken us back to the future by knighting Sir Phil the Greek. And I for one welcome our latest Game of Thrones cosplayer.

Blast from the past: The Queen and Prince Philip on the royal train at Central Station in 1954. Credit:State Records NSW

To those who would decry this honour I say God's smothering bollocks upon you! Certainly, the PM could have embiggened any old convict. As Lord Nelson (H.G, not the other one) remarked on Australia Day morning, Sir Molly Meldrum, Sir Geoffrey Edelsten and Dame Dannii Minogue select themselves. But these would have been the obvious choices. The safe and predictable and boring options.