Olympian

The London Olympics feature, once again, throughout the latest honours list. There's an OBE for Clare Balding; an OBE for Dave Gordon, from BBC Sport, and an MBE for his chief engineer Richard Morgan. Arise, Sir Anish Kapoor, begetter of The Orbit-Twirly-Whirly Thing; Thomas Heatherwick, creator of the 204-flame Bunsen burner-cauldron, becomes a CBE; Kevin Finnan, who choreographed the opening ceremony is made an MBE. Dennis Hone, who was with the ODA from 2006, rose to CEO and now runs Olympic legacy, becomes a CBE.

There are gongs for a range of civil servants who clearly did quite a bit of co-ordination - Mandy Hope, at the MoD, Kathryn Foster at the Home Office/UK Border Force; Ann Wojtowicz at Local Government on legacy; Carolyn Dolan, at the Department of Transport. And bigger gongs for Jonathan Stephens, Permanent Secretary at the DCMS, who, spookily, announced only last month he was moving on. For conspiracy theorists, there's also an honour for Deputy Head of News and DCMS-lifer, Toby Sargent.

The police get three honours - Assistant Commissioner Christopher Allison, who was overall Security Co-ordinator, Met "Gold commander" Bob Broadhurst and Superintendent Brian Pearce. There's an MBE for Wendy Solesbury of the Red Cross; another for Shaun McCarthy, chair of Sustainable London 2012; and one for Penny Briscoe, paralympic performance director. Andrew Finding, CEO of the British Equestrian Federation is awarded an OBE.

I make that 20 Olympic-related honours - on top of the 39 we had at the New Year.

Nothing, yet, for Roger Mosey. I shall consider some BBC honours in another post.