Is Knighthood Ready for the Ax? How Unchivalrous!

Reports that a body of legislators called the Great Britain House of Commons Public Administration Committee has recommended that the list of available aristocratic honors be trimmed drastically, from 16 to four. Suggestion that the word "empire" be replaced with "excellence" in such medals as the Order of the British Empire; Recommendation that knighthoods and their female equivalent be abolished within five years.