Hard work should pay. Unlock quality journalism that champions free enterprise. |  | Rory McIlroy was the most surprising omission from the New Year Honours List. The Telegraph can disclose that the golfer – and newly crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year – was snubbed after an intervention by tax officials.
The exact nature of the dispute is unclear, but earlier in his career he was among thousands of wealthy individuals who put money into a scheme that ended up being challenged by the taxman.
Elsewhere, in a remarkable rejection of 2025’s biggest sporting heroes, England footballers Chloe Kelly and Hannah Hampton were also missed off the honours list, as was golfer Luke Donald, who captained Europe to a Ryder Cup victory in the United States.
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However, among the 1,157 people receiving honours is a former BBC executive blamed over a now-discredited Gaza documentary. Charlotte Moore was the corporation’s chief content officer when Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was broadcast in February. It later emerged that the documentary was narrated by the son of a Hamas official.
Others given awards include a police chief who blocked job applications from white candidates and the National Trust director-general who ordered a “woke” audit of its properties’ links to the slave trade.
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A host of celebrities have also received awards, led by Idris Elba, the Luther and The Wire actor who, in recent years, has turned his attention to tackling knife crime.  | Actress Meera Syal, “Chuckle brother” Paul Elliott, singer Ellie Goulding, TV property expert Phil Spencer and Match of the Day presenter Gabby Logan have all been recognised for campaigning or charitable causes.
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Continue reading ➤ | Memory lane Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
I’ve been enjoying a string of letters on readers’ earliest memories. I’m pretty sure I know what mine is. My parents moved to Cornwall at the beginning of 1994, when I was three, and I remember looking out of the misted-up car window on the drive down to behold a welcoming vista of leaden sky and pelting rain. I would come to know this weather well during my years growing up in the South West.
Michael Gates, however, recalled a rather more dramatic scene: “The burning of the Crystal Palace in 1936, when I was four years old. Where we lived in Beckenham we had a grandstand view of the palace, and I can still see in my mind’s eye the vast glow in the sky and ash falling on our bathroom windowsill.”
Alison Montague, meanwhile, described “standing at the top of Marsh Lane in Stanmore with my father and grandfather, watching marathon runners go by. It was 1948 and I was four. A school friend of mine who lived in Mill Hill remembers watching the same race.”
Hugh Stevenson was reminded “of travelling by bus to the Christmas pantomime at the Little Theatre in Leicester in the late 1950s. The fog was so thick that the conductor had to walk in front in order to prevent a collision.”
Robert Brooke added: “My 109-year-old mother has always told me that her earliest memory is of having her photograph taken when she was two. As photographers’ equipment in those days made it a rather fearsome experience, she was terrified, which is probably why she remembers it so clearly.” What’s your first memory? You can let me know here. I’ll be back tomorrow to bring you the best Telegraph talking points.
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