Unfair honours

WHILE singers, actors and sports stars are dubbed knights or dames, the really deserving are fobbed off with MBES, OBES and CBES.

my best friend at school became a leading pioneer in nephrology. He’s written hundreds of papers and

several books, been the president of societies and a lecture has been given in his honour.

Yet apart from a CBE in 1998, he is regarded as less deserving than Tom Jones and Barbara Windsor.

W. R. VIOLEN, Holland-on-Sea, Essex.