Ahhh commendations lol, in the real world, not worth the paper they are printed on, if indeed they are.
As for the rest, and I include so call sportsmen, simply giving out awards such as OBE's, MBE's and knighthoods etc to people for simply doing their jobs and getting well paid for it, just degrades the system.
Now if they had done something exceptional I could understand it, but i would rather see the likes of an OBE awarded to the old woman who has spent 30 plus years of her life, paid peanuts, looking after disabled children etc than to someone who has simply been promoted into a highly paid and pensioned job.
It's about time they scrubbed the lot.