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New Year Honours 2017: Olympic heroes and entertainers recognised
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francie
30-12-2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38470732

"Olympic stars Andy Murray, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill are recognised in a New Year Honours list which also includes big names from the entertainment world.

Rio 2016 men's tennis champion Murray and double gold-winning athlete Farah receive knighthoods, while heptathlete Ennis-Hill becomes a dame. "

Veteran comic Ken Dodd said he felt "highly tickled" to receive a knighthood at the age of 89.
Arcana
30-12-2016
Someone should start a New Year's Dishonours list...a bit like the Razzies.
platelet
30-12-2016
Nice to see Dominic Johnson, associate treasurer of the Conservative Party getting a gong for helping the homeless
francie
30-12-2016
" One of the oldest recipients is 94-year-old Janet Gillespie, who is awarded a BEM for more than 60 years' volunteering for Poppy Scotland. "

Bless her, well deserved imo. Nice to see "normal" people receiving an acknowledgement.
burneside
30-12-2016
Here we go again... A few deserved honours, and the rest are just useless ornaments for undeserving people.
Happ Hazzard
30-12-2016
Why do women only get a "Damehood" why can't they be Knights too?
Ollie_h19
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by Happ Hazzard:
“Why do women only get a "Damehood" why can't they be Knights too?”

Because Men are Knights (ie. Sirs). Women are Dames. (ie. Dames)
CappySpectrum
31-12-2016
Why is Andy Murray and Victoria Beckham getting it?
francie
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by CappySpectrum:
“Why is Andy Murray and Victoria Beckham getting it?”

Murray I can understand but Beckham no idea.
SULLA
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by CappySpectrum:
“Why is Andy Murray and Victoria Beckham getting it?”

Murray is already a Barron
Moany Liza
31-12-2016
That hatchet-faced old bag Anna Wintour receives a damehood, for sitting on her bony arse, wearing sunglasses and scowling.

It's a good boot up the jacksie she deserves - not an honour.
charlie1
31-12-2016
Really happy for Andy, he deserves it.
TelevisionUser
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by burneside:
“Here we go again... A few deserved honours, and the rest are just useless ornaments for undeserving people.”

Actually, Theresa May ought to be congratulated for this set of honours (and this comes from a strong non-Tory) for there are very few overtly political awards this time around and she's made a clean break from the thoroughly rotten Cameron-Blair past.

The great majority of people on that list have actually done worthwhile things: https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...-full-list.pdf
CappySpectrum
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by Moany Liza:
“That hatchet-faced old bag Anna Wintour receives a damehood, for sitting on her bony arse, wearing sunglasses and scowling.

It's a good boot up the jacksie she deserves - not an honour.”

She is always with Philip Green.
rathcoole_kai
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by SULLA:
“Murray is already a Barron”

This is true.
But I out rank him.
I'm called Earl.
Imogen_Richards
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by Moany Liza:
“That hatchet-faced old bag Anna Wintour receives a damehood, for sitting on her bony arse, wearing sunglasses and scowling.

It's a good boot up the jacksie she deserves - not an honour.”

And she is the editor of US Vogue and lives in the USA. Why not Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue?
Aurora13
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“Actually, Theresa May ought to be congratulated for this set of honours (and this comes from a strong non-Tory) for there are very few overtly political awards this time around and she's made a clean break from the thoroughly rotten Cameron-Blair past.

The great majority of people on that list have actually done worthwhile things: https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...-full-list.pdf”

Prime Ministers don't do these honours. They are done by separate committee.
Moany Liza
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by Imogen_Richards:
“And she is the editor of US Vogue and lives in the USA. Why not Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue?”

Why does anyone deserve anything for "services to fashion". I mean.... is that even a thing? There are a tiny minority of people who benefit from the fashion industry - and they are designers, a handful of emaciated stick insects - and miserable old hags like Anna Wintour.

That's it. Everyone else just funds their lifestyles - from the nine-year old slaving away in sweatshops, to the brain-dead consumers who spend their lives trudging round shopping centres buying more and more shoddy clothing that they don't actually need.

What on earth has she done to deserve being given even so much as a Primark giftcard?
digitalspyfan1
31-12-2016
Andy Murray knighted? Oh boy.

He's a great tennis player but too miserable. He is the patron saint of depression.

Mark Rylance is knighted. Who is he? Never heard of him. You have to be be moderately famous to be knighted and I doubt anyone knows who he is.

Ken Dodd was knighted for services to tax invasion. Well done, Ken!

You can imagine the honours people going through the list struggling to find anyone famous and still alive. They pick the names out of a hat. They Google each name just to check they're still alive!
burneside
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by Moany Liza:
“Why does anyone deserve anything for "services to fashion". I mean.... is that even a thing? There are a tiny minority of people who benefit from the fashion industry - and they are designers, a handful of emaciated stick insects - and miserable old hags like Anna Wintour.

That's it. Everyone else just funds their lifestyles - from the nine-year old slaving away in sweatshops, to the brain-dead consumers who spend their lives trudging round shopping centres buying more and more shoddy clothing that they don't actually need.

What on earth has she done to deserve being given even so much as a Primark giftcard? ”

Not forgetting that waste of space, Dame Vivienne Westwood.
eggchen
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by digitalspyfan1:
“You can imagine the honours people going through the list struggling to find anyone famous and still alive.”

Or not on the Operation Yewtree list.
digitalspyfan1
31-12-2016
Yes, lol.
WhatJoeThinks
31-12-2016
Originally Posted by Happ Hazzard:
“Why do women only get a "Damehood" why can't they be Knights too?”

Only? You may as well ask why girls 'only' become women, and why can't they be called 'men' too?

Or you could ask why do men only get a "Knighthood"? Why can't they be dames too?
muggins14
31-12-2016
Pleased to see the Chief Executive of Carers UK receive an OBE.

Several members of the DWP have received OBE's for services to Welfare Reform - couldn't help but laugh at that one!

I see Angela Rippon received an OBE for Dementia Care.

Nice to see one of the Directors of the University of Bath receive one too.
InMyArms
31-12-2016
Olympic "heroes"

They run around a track really fast, swim really fast or are rich enough to have been brought up with a dancing horse. The BBC and others don't even use the word "heroes" when discussing doctors and nurses, why is it reserved for Olympians?
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