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Bad Press Awards

Recognising the Worst of the Worst of British Journalism

Janet Daley Scoops the Leopard Print Ribbon for Tragically Late Epiphanies

One of the few upsides of social media is that it makes it possible to pinpoint when modern proverbs first spring to life.

On 16 October 2015, Twitter user @Cavalorn tweeted: “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face’, sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party”. In doing so, they gifted to all of humanity a handy way to sum up the pricking of a particular bubble of naive self-interest.

This month’s Bad Press Awards winner is a quintessential example of someone discovering that they’ve been supporting the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party and that the consequences have finally arrived.

High Court Case Brought Against Dan Wootton Over ‘Catfishing’

The former GB News host failed to overturn an order protecting the anonymity of a man he allegedly catfished into sharing sexual material online. Dan Evans and Tom Latchem report.
Dan Evans, Tom Latchem

Mandrake – Hacking Away

The Telegraph looks like an unsellable property in an estate agents’ window – Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly is the latest to be shown round.
Tim Walker