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Boycott knighted - the ramifications.

Do we expect the same standards of other public role models such as rock stars for instance?

Do rock stars choose to be 'role models'? Rock stars who accept honours, maybe, but for the most part rock stars are just people who sing or play musical instruments, take drugs and arse around. If they behaved with impeccable standards all the time they would probably not be rock stars.
 
Service to his country!

He played cricket for heaven’s sake not clear Basra of insurgents.
 
The only people that should get honours are those doing charity, community work or anything above and beyond their normal role.

Getting an honour for doing your job or sport is a joke.
 
I don't know of any reports other than this one where he got physical.
Non-verbal can mean things other than physical violence. For example, body language, aggressive posture, and so-on. His general demeanour when pressed by interviewers seems to me to betray a pent-up tendency toward aggression, beyond what may come out in his choice of language, and tone of voice.
 


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