The song remains the same

And the wait goes on.

The King’s Birthday Honours were announced last night and STILL no recognition for Deborah Arnott, the outgoing CEO of Action on Smoking and Health, or ASH Scotland’s Sheila Duffy.

Perhaps Deborah will be recognised in Rishi Sunak’s dissolution honours list - which would be appropriate given the PM’s unexpected embrace of tobacco control in the final year of his ministerial career - but time is running out before she retires in a few months.

I will continue to lobby the powers that be, but I fear my efforts are falling on deaf ears. After all, it’s ELEVEN years since I first noted this strange anomaly and still zilch.

Where have I gone wrong?

See also: The waiting game continues for Deborah and Sheila (June 2017), Honours update (December 2020), Still no honours for titans of tobacco control (January 2022).