Mic Wright

Bad Press Awards

Recognising the Worst of the Worst of British Journalism

The Scuffed Aluminium Sports Trophy
for Most Awful Awards Show

The Bad Press Awards are a joke; a bitter joke, but a joke nonetheless.

The strength of these awards, both in their monthly form as a column and their yearly physical manifestation at the Byline Festival, is that we know that they are a joke.

The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards, on the other hand, are meant to be taken quite seriously.

When hedge fund ghoul Sir Paul Marshall purchased the political magazine as part of his growing stable of media holdings, it was less about the publication itself and more about its events – particularly the Spectator summer garden party, and the Parliamentarian of the Year Awards.