New Years Honours list

The New Year’s Honours List is meant to reflect all that is best about society. So it is revealing that this year’s has no politicians and few businessmen. Instead, sportsmen and entertainers have stepped into the breach.



In the year of the expenses scandal and political disillusionment, where better to turn than the sexagenarian rock band Status Quo? No one can say they have not earned it. Since meeting at Butlins in 1965, they have notched up 118 million sales and spent 415 weeks in the singles chart.