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of Mark Cavendish continues despite the fact he did something no Briton has ever done before...

Always an anachronism anyway, recent years have seen what could (or should, depending on your views, I'm not going to get into that) be the very pinnacle of achievement for a subject of the British Isles completely thrown away in favour of gaining kudos from the public at large.

Honours should be given (if at all) at the end of a career, and should be more than earned. I'm not denying for one second that Chris Hoy is magnificent at what he does, but rewarding him now, while he is still riding, smacks of wanting to impress people who shouldn't matter. I hate the 21st century NOW NOW NOW culture, and this is merely another example of it.

GOOD. DAY.

This post was brought to you by the spirit of John Dunkirk Traynor.

"In the Men's Keirin final, Sir Christopher Hoy of Dunedin, Great Britain (hoooray, wooooo, yeaaaaah, etc) versus Scott 'Dirty Dingo' Robinson of Oz (boooooooo, hissssss, you suck, etc)"

as he should be in all yours. a latter-day saint

In the vast majority of cases it's either

a) rampant populism

b) political cronyism

c) a self-important backslap for self-important bigwigs in local councils, governemnt or whatever other role.

There are occasional cases where someone gets rewarded for years of service to a community and it's probably a very nice day out for them but I'm not a huge fan of the honours list in general.

Though I think it probably all stems from the Rugby World Cup winning squad...I guess you can just about justify that, but only at a very big stretch.

In a few years you'll be a failure in sport if you don't have an honour.

But anyway, I think MBEs are fine for short term sporting achievment, like Adlington and Hamilton, and OBE for longer term stuff/a massive achievment say like Hoy.

But Knighthoods shouldn't be given out so easily. Look at Botham for instance, there's a man who was an upstanding servant to both cricket and charity, but less so commentary.

when will the queen recognise the fact that Les Ferdinand has an honorary knighthood bestowed upon him by the people of Great Briton? For services in trashing the Blue Peter garden or something...

kids
they listen to the rap music
which gives them the brain damage

Clearly not.