There's this thing about each "honours" list -

It's more about the names "they" missed.

True talent, service...gone to their grave

Left out in life to which they gave

Great gifts that time alone will know

And stay when their owners have to go.

Perhaps these things need no applause

Their legacy sufficient cause

For delight in generations yet to come

No medal or title needed for some

Whose name and work will carry on

When all the flummery has long gone.

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(An MBE for those whose work rewrote English history - whilst a woman who campaigned

for one of her sex to be shown on a bank note gets an OBE.  'Nuff said).