The Times have withdrawn all their journalists from the Comment Awards after @garyyounge and @NesrineMalik withdrew in protest at Melanie Philips’ inclusion, so now there are no shortlisted nominees for the Society and Diversity category whatsoever:http://bit.ly/2ysfncL
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The refusal to engage with perfectly reasonable criticism over the category has blown up in the organisers’ faces. The entire awards are a discredited joke.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
There is, of course, time to reconvene the judges and produce a Times-free short-list. It might even be a bit more diverse.
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No idea what they’ll do - they refused to engage with Younge and Malik and doubled down, so who knows
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