Mic Wright

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.

Janet Daley started out as a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist but, across the considerable arc of her journalistic career, she long ago arrived on the very right-hand side of conservatism.

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