Kicking Philip Green is absurd. Here’s who MPs should be castigating | Simon Jenkins

The Commons wants to remove the former BHS boss’s knighthood, but what is it doing about the company’s chairman, former owner, accountants – and HMRC?

The House of Commons is never more absurd than when kicking a man when he is down. Sir Philip Green is finished, one of the most unpopular men in Britain, barely safe even on his own yacht. Indulged, pampered and praised for decades, his life’s work is in ruins. And all MPs can do is call him “a spiv” and vote to strip him of his knighthood, whi...