If great events stemmed from minor, even accidental, events, then the great and the good were belittled.
Indeed, one of the messages that might be drawn from biographies of the great and the good is precisely the sense in which old age can spin out of control.
The list of the great and the good will be trawled.
Celebrations should not, therefore, be limited to national leaders, to the great and the good, but should involve a broad cross-section of ordinary people.
We should move on from electing the great and the good to deliberate on such profound matters.
Such a committee would amount to little more than a self-perpetuating oligarchy of the great and the good.
Maybe people who were not yet among the great and the good.
I have no faith in the great and the good in this country.
