New Year’s Honours List 2019

[Barbirollians]

A Damehood for Twiggy ! I hope she has done a lot for charity as I cannot imagine her acting can account for it and Nicola Benedetti suddenly promoted to CBE - I assume this is for her work in music education as I have not heard performances from her that would match Ida Haendel also still only a CBE.

[pastoralguy]

Well, it's not a horse race, barbie. No one is pretending that Nicola Benedetti is Ida Haendel, Heifetz or, well, take your pick. However, she has done a tremendous amount for music education in extremely deprived parts of Scotland.

A very well deserved award. (More so than the horrible John Redwood who has been made a sir. Presumably for services to Wales...)

[subcontrabass]

A Damehood for Twiggy ! I hope she has done a lot for charity as I cannot imagine her acting can account for it and Nicola Benedetti suddenly promoted to CBE - I assume this is for her work in music education as I have not heard performances from her that would match Ida Haendel also still only a CBE.

MBEs for:

Christian Blackshaw
Stephen Darlington
David Hill

[MrGongGong]

Great to see Jackie Tyler from the CBSO on the list

[cloughie]

Well, it's not a horse race, barbie. No one is pretending that Nicola Benedetti is Ida Haendel, Heifetz or, well, take your pick. However, she has done a tremendous amount for music education in extremely deprived parts of Scotland.

A very well deserved award. (More so than the horrible John Redwood who has been made a sir. Presumably for services to Wales...)

...and Europe!

[gurnemanz]

Re Sir John Redwood: If, as any cynic would suspect, May is trying to buy off the Brexit nutters, she loses a little bit more of any remaining respect I still had for her.

[johncorrigan]

and Nicola Benedetti suddenly promoted to CBE - I assume this is for her work in music education as I have not heard performances from her that would match Ida Haendel also still only a CBE.

Don't know about that but my Mum went to see Nicola in a church hall in Largs last week and said she was wonderful, and if she entertains my old Mum that's good enough for me.

[cloughie]

Re Sir John Redwood: If, as any cynic would suspect, May is trying to buy off the Brexit nutters, she loses a little bit more of any remaining respect I still had for her.

Particularly as he was probably one of the characters that led to Theresa’s comment about becoming the ‘Nasty Party’ in 2002. I suspect that in recent months her view has reverted to that. Redwood’s knighthood adds again to my thought that the Honours System is devoid of value and should be scrapped.

[Beef Oven!]

Re Sir John Redwood: If, as any cynic would suspect, May is trying to buy off the Brexit nutters, she loses a little bit more of any remaining respect I still had for her.

May is one of the Remain-nutters, so she has to create some balance I suppose. She can't just pander to the Remain-nutters. Fortunately for me, I had no respect for her in the first place!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Don't know about that but my Mum went to see Nicola in a church hall in Largs last week and said she was wonderful, and if she entertains my old Mum that's good enough for me.

In fact, wasn't that the citation of her CBE? "For services to jc's Mum"? (A much better reason than most.)

[MrGongGong]

Re Sir John Redwood: If, as any cynic would suspect, May is trying to buy off the Brexit nutters, she loses a little bit more of any remaining respect I still had for her.

FFS

Kind of destroys any credibility at all (not that there was much there in the first place)

[french frank]

"For services to jc's Mum"? (

Only a CBE!

[cloughie]

Only a CBE!

If the earth moved for his Mum perhaps it should have been. JCBE!

[johncorrigan]

If the earth moved for his Mum perhaps it should have been. JCBE!

Reminded me of the Navvy who won the pools and bought a JCBGT, cloughie.

[ahinton]

May is one of the Remain-nutters, so she has to create some balance I suppose. She can't just pander to the Remain-nutters. Fortunately for me, I had no respect for her in the first place!

She might be one of the nutters, but that's about it, I fear. Up a creek of her own choosing without so much as a canoe, let alone a paddle. If she really thinks that she can bribe the likes of the Sequoia by recommending him for knighthood of the realm, she's an even bigger nutter than I'd assumed.