Apple design guru Jonathan Ive is knighted.

[Soleron]

kowenicki said:

Soleron said:
Knighthoods don't mean anything any more. The Queen doesn't even decide, it's whoever the government likes at the moment (remember cash for honours scandal?).

good grief...

that was mainly to do with gaining an honourary peerage, and gaining power in the Lords, and is nothing to do with being knighted...

ffs, say what you want about the various honour systems but just because some are driven by politics doesnt mean this isnt deserved.

Was still paying to influence an award officially conferred by the Crown. The government still draws up the recommendations for knighting, and you think they don't put people who've donated to the Party on it?

Deserved? lol. The lists don't read like ones of people that deserve recognition.