Whitbread Announced
The winners of the Whitbread award have been announced–they are:
Now the judges (including actor Hugh Grant) will pick the overall winner. Coverage of this has started in all the usual places, and most of it is decent, though the Times takes the award for worst headline about: Whitbread judges favour women writers. Didn’t we just go through this with the NBA? And frankly, if 3 out of 5 are women, that could hardly be called favouring! God!