On: Apple design chief Jonathan Ive is knighted

[sambeau]

Cough. Splutter.

While the lower orders of knights are generally given out on merit the higher orders are not. At least as far as I'm concerned.

The UK Class System is inherently based on a pecking order and the top of the pecking chain is kept for those who are more anointed than useful.

Take a look at this list. It is two orders higher than most Knights (and therefore two orders more special). Are they two orders more deserving?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order

[arethuza → sambeau]

I guess my comment (note the "mostly") was based on the assumption that more of the bog standard knighthoods are handed out rather than the fancy ones.