"Arise Sir Dodgy"

This year's New Year's Honours List is notably short on political party financiers for rather obvious reasons. There's not much of interest really with the exception of Rod Stewart's CBE for servicing women half his age (or less); the 11th in line for the British throne, Zara Phillips, gets an MBE for services to jodhpurs; best of all John Scarlett, the head of MI6 and famed proponent of the "dodgy dossier" on Iraq, receives a knighthood for services to mendacity.

For the terminally bored or enthusiastically royalist the full list (PDF) is available here.