The Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore has won the Orwell prize for journalism for her “stubborn and brave commentary” on the aftermath of Brexit, #metoo and the politics of remembrance.
Moore won the prize for articles on attitudes to Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the wake of the #MeToo movement; why she was wrong to refuse to wear a poppy for remembrance; and why she did not take part in the march for a People’s Vote.
The prize is awarded for commentary or reporting which comes closest to the writer George Orwell’s ambition to “make political writing into an art”.
Really? That's the most important political reporting of the last year? Politcal writing as art? You would think something called The Orwell Prize should be given to the most inconvenient pieces for the powers that be; the articles that spoke truth to power the loudest, not this dribbling shit.
The judges were Tim Marshall, a former diplomatic editor at Sky, Sam Taylor, editor of the Lady magazine, and Vaughan Smith, the founder of the Frontline Club.
Well that explains a lot. I noticed in their (SM shared her prize with Steve Bloomfield) quoted tweets at the end of the article "class is a big issue in journalism ". No shit, Suzie? I'm sure all the journos at fraudian towers who didn't go to private school/Oxbridge would agree if there were enough of them to be heard.