Musings on the Future of the Web
The UK is the shortened name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain – it’s a kingdom. This means, it is ruled over by a monarch.
Britain has an interesting history, in that, despite a civil war to overthrow the monarchy, we allowed the monarch to come back, after a short spell, subject to some parliamentary oversight.
The monarch – The Queen at the time of writing – gives “honours” to the brightest and best in the realm, on a twice yearly basis.
One of these times is at New Year – these honours are called New Year’s Honours.
The other time is “Birthday Honours” which take place in the summertime, around the Queen’s official birthday.
When I post content about New Year Honours, you’ll find it below, with the most recently published item nearest the top. For posterity. For Britain.
Because the news reports are always slow to load – thanks to millions of advertisements – and the Gov.uk listing (when they don’t accidentally post everyone’s addresses!) are in a PDF, and therefore not great to load up in a mobile, last year I formatted the New Year’s Honours list for simple online publication.
For 2020, the same, see below.
The 2019 New Year’s Honours List was published today, on 29 December 2019, and in case you wanted to see the full list, without it being in a PDF, I’ve published it below – minus all the ads and other slowness that mainstream news media will surround their honours list content with.
Navigating the Complete List:
This list is complete and searchable – for example, if you are on a desktop or laptop computer, hit CTRL + F and then type in a county or city (say “North Yorkshire” or “London”) or a surname (like “Wilkinson”) and you can then flip through the relevant items. Alternatively, there’s a table of contents so you can jump to the main sections of honours.
I was able to post this really quickly for the benefit of the world because I have the best broadband in Britain.
