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Political critic given two British honours by broadcaster (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chomsky

'political critic' is the definition.
(Noam Chomsky)

'two british honours by broadcaster' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'broadcaster' could be 'sky' (Sky is a broadcast TV channel) and 'sky' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'given' acts as a link.

(Another definition for chomsky that I've seen is " US linguist; my shock (anag.)".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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