Consider the following from the recent New Year's Honours List: Kelly Holmes - Dame; Seb Coe - Lord; trade union leaders, Olympic rowers, actors and singers - knighthoods.
President of the Law Society - nothing, not even an MBE. The inescapable conclusion is that solicitors are now regarded as worthless. The president used to be knighted. What happened? I had thought we were a profession.
AJ Ponting, Chester-le-Street, Co Durham
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