Still annoyed about Orwell Prize Award

The one thing that I failed to articulate about my disappointment about the anonymous blogger called, very drearily, "Rangers Tax Case"~ at http://rangerstaxcase.wordpress.com/ is that the imbecilic judges of the Orwell Prize do not get it that investigative journalism is not political writing, and Rangers Tax Case certainly did not succeed in turning political writing into an art.

I really could not bring myself to care about Scottish football, even after several attempts to read his deadly prose.

Not only is The Orwell Prize corrupt - in the sense that they excluded me solely on the grounds that my views are not by any description Left Liberal (which is what you have to be to be part of the political establishment that runs the Orwell Prize), they do not seem to understand at any level that investigative journalism is not political writing.

Political writing is persuasion, propaganda and the vivid illustration of the points you are trying to make, to the extent that the people who say they are not interested in politics sit up and take notice in spite of themselves.

Furthermore, you make the people whose views are diametrically opposed to yours aware of you and flee from you without daring to engage.  

Suzanne Moore runs an online campaign to get her friends to block me on Twitter.

Even the infamously aggressive Lisa Ansell blocked me on Twitter without even once engaging.  http://defytheeconomy.wordpress.com/

Sadly, the standards of behaviour, education and morality of the political establishment is now so hopelessly retarded after so many decades of matriarchal rule that even the people who ought to understand what I am saying - ie Suzanne Moore and Hopi Sen and all the people who run the Orwell Prize - either do not, or pretend not to.

O tempora!  O mores!

What should by rights be MINE if only this country were being properly run

The Cassandra Prize of Political Writing

Since the Orwell Prize is now just a cabal of the Left Liberal establishment that falsely claims to represent the nation's political writing, I propose that the Patriarchal Right set up an alternative prize against the Demented Matriarchal Left.

When I am rich and famous I will set up The Cassandra Prize for Political Writing.  It will have express purpose of going against the current political orthodoxy, whatever it is, and will be known for the honourable impartiality of its judges rather than the dishonourable and blatant bias of the current judges for blogging, especially Suzanne Moore the Feminist and Socialist who has Labour Party connections together with the other blog judge Hopi Sen.

Can you believe it??

Only in apathetic and dumbed down Britain does nobody care about that  bunch of smug arrogant shits censoring political discourse like they have a God-given right to do so.

I actually told a whole bunch of journalists about it, but they didn't give a shit either, probably because they were hoping to win the Orwell Prize themselves one day, the cowardly shits.

Anyone who wants to complain about it should write to

Katriona Lewis | Administrator, Orwell Prize
Email | katriona.lewis@mediastandardstrust.org
Phone | 0207 229 5722
Address | The Orwell Prize, 5/7 Vernon Yard, Portobello Road, London W11 2DX

Judicial Review of The Orwell Prize being considered

It appears that the Orwell Prize is the only prize for political writing in the UK.

It is certainly the case that the way they have awarded their prizes in the past has a proven track record of Left Liberal bias which they do not even bother to deny.

This year, they have two judges for blogging, both of whom have Labour Party connections viz Suzanne Moore and Hopi Sen.

I duly protested but my objections were brushed aside contemptuously.  Suzanne Moore's attitude was "People like us can do this to people like you.  It is a given."  The arrogance and presumption is breathtaking, but there you are - this is how an established member of the liberal feminist matriarchy behaves and thinks.

I would like to explore therefore the possibility of applying for judicial review.

Is the Orwell Prize a public body?

Not obviously because it was established privately but has the sponsorship of a registered charity - the Media Standards Trust.  http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/sponsors/ 

But it is the only organisation in the land awarding prizes for political writing.  There ain't no other.

It is a charity that serves a public purpose viz:

"The Media Standards Trust is an independent registered charity which aims to foster high standards in news media on behalf of the public. We’re a ‘think-and-do-tank’, conducting research on important media issues but also running projects to promote quality, transparency and accountability in news.

We believe high standards of news and information are critical to the health of our democratic society."

There is no denying however that it serves a public purpose in the expression of political thought through political writing, but it has taken upon itself the role of a public censor by a biased tribunal. Labour Party supporters do not pride themselves on dealing fairly and justly with people in the nationalist movement.  Indeed, they make a policy of treating us like a sub-human scum and are proud of this fact.

I am not saying that no obviously "right-wing" journalists are ever been awarded a prize, but the blogging prize is the only one that allows new talent to come forward.  People who regularly read "right-wing" writers such as Simon Heffer and Peter Hitchens would rightly demand why their favourite "right-wing" journalist is never awarded a prize when only the Guardianistas and the Observeritas are, and the Orwell Prize would have to shuffle their feet uneasily.

However, being relatively unknown, I do not have enough readers and supporters in a position to vociferously question the award of the Prize to a series of obviously rather dull Left Liberal bloggers rather than to radical right revolutionary me.

It is new talent that needs to be showcased here and I would argue that it is even more important that the blog prize judges be seen to be impartial.

Suzanne Moore is the opposite of impartial since she has run several online campaigns to get people to block me from following me on Twitter.   There may have been other online campaigns that she has run that I am not aware of.

Since it is clearly a problem that political thought has deteriorated in quality and narrowed in range, it is now even all the more important that the invalid that is Free Speech is nursed back into robust health again in this country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review_in_English_Law#Grounds_for_review

Below are most of the grounds that I think may apply in this case:



Ignoring relevant considerations or taking irrelevant considerations into account

Suzanne Moore clearly thought she had the right to exclude me on the grounds that I was once the Election Agent for the BNP.

I wrote informing the Council Members of the Orwell Trust but they all ignored me.

Irrationality


It was clearly irrational of her to think she had the right to exclude me on the grounds that I was once Election Agent for the BNP.

Breach of natural justice

The fact that both blog prize judges had Labour Party connections meant that The rule against bias has been clearly breached.  There was clearly actual and imputed bias in this case since both judges had Labour Party connections and it is well-known that the Reds in the Labour Party feel a venomous hatred towards anyone with a different view to them.  While Hopi Sen took care not to show overt hostility, Suzanne Moore did no such thing.

Suzanne Moore is an unmarried mother and it would have offended her to be classified as an SSM at http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/3-degrees-of-culpability-in-single.html and to read my anti-feminist views.

She may not have liked my idea of fielding a BNP candidate in North Hackney & Stoke Newington either in the last General Election, when she was standing.

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/should-bnp-stand-in-hackney-north-stoke.html

It is my view that the BNP would easily have got more votes than she received (a derisory 258 votes), even in her own constituency, and that is why she now LOATHES me with a seething, burning, boiling passion.   Too bad then that the BNP did not have the guts to do it and opted for where they knew they would get more votes but less publicity, because they wanted to play safe.

http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/how-to-enter/values/

the Prize’s ambition [is] to encourage political argument and enthuse the public about politics and political writing"

"‘to encourage writing in good English – while giving equal value to style and content, politics or public policy, whether political, economic, social or cultural – of a kind aimed at or accessible to the reading public, not to specialist or academic audiences."

In short, to turn political writing into an art.

I wonder, though, whether there are any lawyers in this land of many lawyers if just one good one would be prepared to act on this matter of great public interest.

If the BNP were properly organised it would of course support me and even instruct a decent firm of solicitors to pursue this case, but it too is as cowed by the matriarchy as the LibLabCon because its supporters and members are the ones most affected by the widespread illegitimacy that Suzanne Moore and her feminist ilk has caused to spread like a cancer  in this country.

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/can-anyone-tell-me-if-any-of-these.html

Orwell Prize Shortlist Announcement

http://theorwellprize.co.uk/events/orwell-prize-shortlist-2012-announcement-and-debate/

This year I was not invited to the Orwell Prize Longlist or Shortlist annoucements.  This year the Administrator of the Prize is katriona.lewis@mediastandardstrust.org a woman, rather than Gavin Freeguard, a man.

This year there was no attempt even to appear impartial, for both the blogging judges had known Labour Party connections.

How very sad then that the only prize for political writing that you may have heard of has been contaminated and corrupted by extremist PC liberal feminism and its insufferable smugness, self-righteousness and inability to accept any other view than its own distorted view of the world.   

Bloggers longlisted for Orwell Prize for blogging 2012 deemed to be better than Claire Khaw by Liberal Left cabal running it

Compare my ten submissions at http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/my-submission-for-2012-orwell-prize-for.html

to the bland Liberal Left approved stuff at  http://theorwellprize.co.uk/longlists/filter/type-Blog%20Prize/year-2012/

Both Hopi Sen and Suzanne Moore - this year's judges for blogging - have Labour Party associations, so they are bound to want to marginalise me for my nationalist associations.  

Indeed, Suzanne Moore even started an online campaign to get people to block me from following them on Twitter.

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/orwell-prize-left-wing-cabal-who-are.html

Orwell Prize Longlist Announcement today - no prizes for guessing who won't be on it

Dear all,

Thank you for your entry to the 2012 Orwell Prize. We received a record number of submissions; 264 books, 140 journalists and 226 bloggers submitted work. Our judges have been busy reading since the New Year and they’re finally nearing a decision.

The longlists will be announced next Wednesday 28th March at midday. At this time you shall receive an email notifying you of our decision.

The entrants make the Prize what it is and we do hope that you will continue to enact Orwell’s vision of turning ‘political writing into an art’.

If you should have any questions you can contact me on katriona.lewis@mediastandardstrust.org. I have taken over administration from Gavin Freeguard and look forward to getting to know you all.

Good luck and best wishes,

Katriona Lewis | Administrator, The Orwell Prize
0207 229 5722 | katriona.lewis@mediastandardstrust.org | 5/7 Vernon Yard | Portobello Road | London W11 2DX

'What I have most wanted to do... is to make political writing into an art' | George Orwellwww.theorwellprize.co.uk | twitter.com/TheOrwellPrize

Last year it was a rather more public event as can be seen at http://theorwellprize.co.uk/events/orwell-prize-longlist-2011-announcement-and-debate/ compared to this secret event that no one is invited to this year as can be seen at
http://theorwellprize.co.uk/events/orwell-prize-longlist-2012-announcement/

Third video from the top 9:48 at 6:34, David Allen Green says

"Yes, there is a perception that the Orwell Prize has a leftist approach ...."

then lots of canting prating shit about Orwell wanting to "correct injustice" (but only as defined by leftists like him).   Graeme Archer the civilly partnered homosexual who writes for Conservative Home (that nest of so-called Conservatives who wish to conserve the liberal status quo and whose leader supports "gay marriage", no less) won.  Dan Hannan who is not quite gay enough because he has a wife and children did not.

Last year they at least went through the motions of appearing to be impartial by having, I was going to say, two judges who were not Labour Party supporters.

I then checked http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/how-to-enter/entries-2011/blog-prize-2011/ and it came back to me that one of them was David Allen Green who actually admitted in his speech that the Orwell Prize was Left Liberal.  The other was Gaby Hinsliff, former political editor of The Guardian on Sunday.

Well, I guess they were never going to like my stuff.

Radical Right bloggers are automatically and easily excluded, because if you have not heard of some unknown blogger you are not going to ring and ask indignantly "Why hasn't Claire Khaw made the longlist?"

This  year, however, you can.

Notice that all the winners of the blogging prizes have been Left Liberal.   Last year's winner was Graeme Archer who writes for Conservative Home admittedly, but then he is known to be gay and in a civil  partnership.

If the only way of winning the prize if you are associated with the Conservative Party is to be gay then I will say I am a lesbian.  I have been hinting as much on Twitter and Facebook.  I am sure I said a few suggestive things to Suzanne Moore who is one of the judges this year when we were still Facebook friends, before she unfriended me.

I seem to remember offering to go round to hers to kiss better some marks on her neck that looked like love bites when she was asking her Facebook friends to look at those marks.

Later, I noticed that Nyta Mann (who works for the BBC) who was also her Facebook friend and formerly my friend were bad mouthing me.   Nyta Mann might recollect a few failed attempts on my part to seduce her.   So there.   I am not just making up my sexual orientation to win the Orwell Prize.

http://twitter.com/#!/nytamann

http://www.facebook.com/nytam

I also allowed the lesbian journalist Julie Bindel to kiss me once or twice and responded appropriately ie by kissing her back.

http://www.facebook.com/julie.bindel

http://twitter.com/#!/bindelj

Last year Suzanne Moore blocked me from following her on Twitter and started a campaign to tell others to do the same.

The other judge this year is Hopi Sen, who once worked for the  Labour Party.

No prizes for guessing who is NOT getting on the longlist again this year, even if my stuff is the most cutting-edge and radical form of political blogging, that demonstrates the art of my political writing.

So there you are, folks, there you are.

If you care for free speech and the integrity of the Orwell Prize, you now know who to ring to make your complaints.   The Orwell Prize is not owned by the Liberal Left.  If it is, it should not be.

Do not let them dominate the limits of political discourse, which are now very very narrow indeed.

Yesterday, a young white man was jailed for 56 days for sending offensive tweets about the black footballer Fabrice Muamba.   Has Muamba become God and has a law been passed forbidding blasphemy against our new British God Muamba?   If so, nobody told me or Liam Stacey.

I also want to say how sorry I am that Gavin Freeguard is no longer the administrator, but he has moved on to better things and is now political adviser to Harriet Harman.  Even when he must  have been privately appalled at my views, he was always  perfectly polite and charming to me.

You can read my submissions for this year's Orwell Prize for blogging at
http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/my-submission-for-2012-orwell-prize-for.html

My submission for the 2012 Orwell Prize for blogging

1. http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2011/02/welfare-reform-ideas-by-claire-khaw.html 
2. http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-society-and-bull-shit.html
3. http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2011/03/west-and-emma-woodhouse.html
4. http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2011/04/behaviour-of-bovine-british-voter-who.html
5. http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2011/05/shock-horror-britons-getting-5-more.html
6. http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2011/07/aphorisms-of-claire-khaw.html
7. http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2011/09/our-traditions-come-from-our-fathers.html
8. http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2011/11/cougars-and-cubs.html
9. http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2011/11/moral-case-for-legalising-brothel.html
10. http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-white-working-classes-is-like-man.html

Submitted at 4:57pm on Monday 16 January 2012

Orwell Prize judges for blogging accused of Left Liberal bias - both judges associated with the Labour Party

MESSAGE 1 FROM CLAIRE KHAW  TO ORWELL PRIZE

Monday, 9 January 2012, 16:39
Hi Gavin
http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2012/01/orwell-prize-left-wing-cabal-who-are.html
I wish to draw your attention to the blatant hostility shown by Suzanne Moore towards me and would question the wisdom and impartiality of having two such Labour-supporting judges for the Orwell Prize.   

May I suggest that Suzanne be replaced by someone with Eurosceptic views who has previously expressed concern about the institutions of marriage and family as well as immigration?

That would then redress the disgraceful appearance of bias on the part of the Orwell Prize and keep its reputation intact.   

May I in this instance suggest Sir Paul Coleridge.

Regards
Claire Khaw

MESSAGE 2 FROM ORWELL PRIZE TO CLAIRE KHAW
Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 10:24

Hi Claire,

Many thanks for your email.

Our judges are asked to put their political views to one side when judging – there is an injunction to be impartial. They are required to assess the quality of the writing which is put in front of them to judge (guided by the list of Orwell’s ‘Values’ at http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/how-to-enter/values/).

We are confident that this year’s judges will judge in this way, as previous ones have done. Previous judges have not been afraid to select winners whose political views differ from their own (the selection of Peter Hitchens by Roger Graef and Peter Kellner is a case in point), and to select judges purely by their politics rather than their ability to do the job would be potentially dangerous.

Best wishes
Gavin

Gavin Freeguard | Deputy Director, The Orwell Prize | Senior Editor, Media Standards Trust

0207 229 5722 | gavin.freeguard@mediastandardstrust.org | 5/7 Vernon Yard | Portobello Road | London W11 2DX

MESSAGE 3 FROM CLAIRE KHAW TO ORWELL PRIZE

Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 13:45

Hi Gavin
Thank you for your message of reassurance, but I do not think you can call any of these bloggers who won the blogging prize as not Left Liberal.  Graeme Archer may be a member of the Conservative Party,  but he is openly gay, which would make him OK for the Liberal Left judges.
   
Blog category
2009 Richard Horton: "NightJack– An English Detective"
2010 Winston Smith (pseudonym): "Working with the Underclass"
2011 Graeme Archer: ConservativeHome

Johann Hari is of course not mentioned because the prize has been withdrawn, but there is no denying that he is a man of the Left.

As you say, "to select judges purely by their politics rather than their ability to do the job would be potentially dangerous" and we are certainly living in dangerous times.

Suzanne Moore has expressed open hostility to me on more than one occasion, because of my views on Feminism and Never Married Mothers.  I understand she is one herself.

Also, both Hopi Sen and Suzanne Moore are associated with the Labour Party.
Is the Orwell Prize comfortable with saying, more or less, in a loud stage whisper:

"Anyone with non-Left Liberal views and who has anything to do with UKIP or the BNP and who questions the current liberal orthodoxy as regards feminism, immigration and the welfare state need not apply"? 

Does that have echoes of "Blacks and Irish need not apply" - signs that I have read were once displayed outside B&Bs in this country?

May I suggest that at least the appearance of impartiality be given this year to avoid the Orwell Prize falling into disrepute, and another judge with openly Conservative, traditional and Eurosceptic views be chosen, especially if they have expressed concern about immigration and wish to decriminalise fox-hunting.

I have already suggested Sir Paul Coleridge.  

Roger Scruton, Peter Hitchens, Abhijit Pandya, Melanie Phillips, A N Wilson and Theodore Dalrymple come to mind.  

It is in my view even more important that the blogging prize be impartial because, while people may wonder why prominent Conservative journalists they regularly read and respect never win the Orwell Prize, they will tend  not to care about an unknown whom they  have never heard of and who will never be heard of if Suzanne Moore gets her way.   

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes
Claire Khaw

Values
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art.


My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience…. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.


George Orwell, Why I Write


Orwell was a self-conscious writer: he cared not only about what he wrote, but how he wrote it. His assessment of what makes for good writing – and bad writing – is as relevant to writing and journalism today as it was when he was writing, and as such, should underpin the Prizes awarded in his name.


‘Political’ is defined in the widest sense; as Orwell wrote in ‘Politics and the English Language’:


In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.


Entries should show:


Political purpose


Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after (Why I Write)


Clarity


Good prose is like a windowpane (Why I Write)


Intellectual courage


Intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face… If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear (Proposed Preface to Animal Farm)


When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink (Politics and the English Language)


Freedom of the intellect means the freedom to report what one has seen, heard, and felt, and not to be obliged to fabricate imaginary facts and feelings (The Prevention of Literature)


Critical thought


To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment (Proposed Preface to Animal Farm)


Artful writing


Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed (Why I Write)


Entries should avoid:


staleness of imagery… [and] lack of precision… by using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself (Politics and the English Language)


Above all, entries should share Orwell’s ambition:


to make political writing into an art. 

Orwell Prize a left-wing cabal who are not even bothering to keep up the appearance of impartiality this year

I don't know why I didn't complain earlier because I  had noticed before that the 2012 judges for the Orwell Prize for blogging are both of the Left.  That was  probably because I already knew years ago that the Orwell Prize was just a Left Liberal cabal.

Nobody cares about someone they have never heard of and no unknown anti-feminist anti-liberal blogger will ever become known if the Orwell Prize for blogging judges conspire to ignore and censor them.   Notice they have never ever awarded the blogging prize to a right-wing blogger.

http://theorwellprize.co.uk/news/orwell-prize-2012-announces-judges-opens-for-entries/

The Orwell Prize:

is regarded as the pre-eminent British prize for political writing.  In each case, the winner is the short-listed entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to 'make political writing into an art'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell_Prize but it should be noted that a Liberal Left cabal have now made it their own so that they can now arrogantly and corruptly dictate the terms of political discourse.  This year, they are not even attempting to seem impartial.

HOPI SEN

I started work for the Labour party as the Northern region press officer in 2000. After the 2001 election I moved to Party HQ, before becoming the head of campaigns at the Parliamentary Labour Party.

http://hopisen.com/about/

SUZANNE MOORE

http://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL=http://madamearcati.blogspot.com/2010/05/suzanne-moore-expelled-from-labour.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Moore

She blocked me from following her tweets a while back.

There is therefore no attempt this year at even attempting to appear impartial.

Today, Suzanne tweeted at https://twitter.com/#!/suzanne_moore:

suzanne_moore suzanne moore
@gabyhinsliff @LouiseMensch @WeAreBrightBlue just to let you know have encountered Claire Khaw before. She is BNP. Block.

suzanne_moore suzanne moore
@
@LouiseMensch @gabyhinsliff @WeAreBrightBlue god she is persistent. Agent for BNP in Tower Hamlets.

I don't think I will be chosen this year, however well I have turned "political writing into an art", do you?

By the way, Suzanne, there is no point deleting your tweets, because I have already forwarded the screenshot to Gavin Freegard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal

A description of Modern Liberals by Robert Henderson:

The unpleasant truth (for liberals) is that modern liberals, far from being interested in truth and fairness and  treating all human beings alike, are just like every other human being: they favour those they approve of and attack those they deem beyond the Pale.  In fact, liberals today are more likely to behave viciously towards those of whom they disapprove than the general run of Britons because they are rigid ideologues and like all ideologues they carry their beliefs to any length of sinister absurdity.