@gungasnake,
Well, his scientific career has been highly decorated.
Ans 'yes', but his main target were the Royals.
It's always better to go to the original source, here look at the Hay Festival ... " Among the headline guests were Nobel Laureates VS Naipaul, JMG le Clezio, Paul Nurse and Mohammed ElBaradei, historians Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Wood, Bettany Hughes and Niall Ferguson, broadcasters Chris Evans, Jenni Murray, Kevin McCloud and Evan Davis, actors Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Fiennes, Rob Lowe, Gillian Anderson and Simon Russell Beale, and writers Paul Theroux, Linda Grant, Malorie Blackman, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson."
You do know, gunga, what the Hay Festival is about, don't you?