This year’s nominees for The Trashies left us spoilt for choice. Narrowing down the nomination pool to a manageable worst of the worst was very difficult. (For the many people who nominated Richard Littlejohn’s body of work, don’t worry – his lifetime achievement award will come soon.)

We also have a new addition to #TheTrashies this year: an award for worst UK publication. While there are many deserving publications around the world, our mostly UK-based team means that we’re starting with the mainstream media that’s closest to home.

Read more about why we host the annual #TheTrashies Awards here

Now the decision is yours – which of this year’s choices will win #TheTrashies?

UPDATE: 25/03/16

Jury Selection #TheTurboTrash Prize will take in to account post tragedy reporting and comment articles. Nominations have again been crowd-sourced and will be whittled down to:

2) Highly commended
1) Winner of…

Judges:

Symeon Brown (Journalist, Reporter)
Shelina Janmohamed (Journalist)
Afua Hirsch (Broadcast Journalist)
Hussein Kesvani (Freelance journalist)

Nominations:

Douglas Murray: A terrorist attack has happened in Europe. Let the standard response begin (Spectator)

Katie Hopkins: If Europe accepts Muslim terror is normal we can’t stay (Daily Mail)

Rod Liddle: Like London, Brussels has allowed itself to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism (Spectator)

Maajid Nawaz: Reform Muslims Stand Up To Take On the Ideology of Islamism (Daily Beast)

Piers Morgan: Isn’t it time we listened to Trump on terror?  (Daily Mail)

Daniel Greenfield Media Already Running “Muslims Fear Blowback” Stories After Brussels (Front Page Magazine)

Allison Pearson: Why stay in the EU when its capital is also the capital of jihadism in Europe? (Telegraph)

Haris Rafiq: Brussels can deploy all the troops it wants. It won’t solve anything (Spectator)

Yasmin Alibhai-brown: Will no one admit the way some Muslims raise kids is fomenting terror?  (Daily Mail)

Announcement at #TheTrashies Awards Ceremony 1st April

#TheTrashies Articles

• Margaret Wente: Race and gender: I feel, therefore I am (The Globe and Mail)
• Richard Littlejohn: Did Michelle Obama not see the irony in delivering a speech on female emancipation to a school full of girls in headscarves in the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets? (And is this the face Britain wants to show the world?) (The Daily Mail)
• Caroline Iggulden: Murder, drugs, extortion… Why the hell is Beyonce saluting the criminal Black Panthers? (The Sun)
• Allison Pearson: Why Angela Merkel’s negotiations with Turkey are worrying for the UK (The Daily Telegraph)
• Steve Robson: Gangster-tattooed young dad shot dead in Wood Green by police ‘had links to notorious Mark Duggan firm’ (The Daily Mirror)
• Kamal Daoud: The Sexual Misery of the Arab World (The New York Times)
• Telegraph View: Britain’s proud history cannot be rewritten (The Daily Telegraph)
• Janice Turner: Feminists are betraying their Muslim sisters (The Times)
• Music Week: 30 Under 30: The Future of the Music Biz (Music Week)
• Suzanne Moore: Black Pride at the Super Bowl? Beyoncé embodies a new political moment (The Guardian)
• John Simpson: Imam beaten to death in sex grooming town (The Times)
• Simon Heffer: Paris is tragic proof that Enoch Powell was right about threats to our country (The Daily Telegraph)
• Express & Star: Black Country flag row: Apology demanded when historian visits (Express & Star )
• wSieci (Network) (cover): Islamic Rape of Europe  [CONTENT WARNING]
• David Mitchell: The trouble with people who lived in the past (The Guardian)
• Time Magazine (cover): The Secret War Crime  [CONTENT WARNING]
• Tom Newton Dunn: 1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis (The Sun)
• Amitai Etzioni: Should Israel Flatten Beirut to Destroy Hezbollah’s Missiles? (Haaretz)
• Julia Hartley-Brewer: Of course worrying about immigration doesn’t make you racist – why’s the Archbishop only just noticed? (The Daily Telegraph)
• Ian Dunt: The left needs to address the rise of identity politics (Politics.co.uk)
• Hadley Freeman: Why cast a lighter-skinned actor as Nina Simone? Here come the racesplainers (The Guardian)
• Malcolm Knox: The trouble with being Chris Gayle – it all comes down to respect (smh.com.au)
• Brendan O’Neill: The ‘anti-racist’ crowd have resorted to the old politics of racism (The Spectator)
• Piers Morgan: Idon’t watch the Oscars to get harangued about racism, rape, sex abuse, greedy bankers, global warming and gay rights. I watch to be entertained. (Daily Mail)
• David Mitchell: Don’t ban Donald Trump. Just keep on laughing at him (The Guardian)
• Margaret Wente: White America dons the shroud of guilt http://fw.to/0E7Rx9i (The Globe and Mail)
• Helen Lewis: Why is ‘yellowface’ wrong yet pantomime dames are OK? (The Guardian)
• Richard Williams: Maria Sharapova’s aura will forever bear a blemish amid the doubts (The Guardian)
• Sarah Vine: Smugness of Women’s Day drives me insane (Daily Mail)
• Radhika Sanghani : Ab Fab film: ‘Yellowface’ isn’t racist – it’s called acting? (The Telegraph)
• Anonymous: I Can’t Fall For Fat Women, I Only Want A Slim Girlfriend Because They Are Different (Akkar_Bakkar)
• Bill Leak: Cartoon depicting Indians eating solar panels (The Australian )
• Ben Rothenberg: Tennis’s Top Women Balance Body Image With Ambition (New York Times)
• Jane Fynes-Clinton: Sorry, but there’s no reason to be sorry, Alice Kunek should not apologize for blackface scandal (Daily Telegraph Australia)
• Dr Richard Hoskins: Jihadis, voodoo, murders, sex trafficking… we can stop them all if we quit EU, says crime expert (TheSun)
• Hugo Gye: A history of extremism: How Islamic societies in London have ‘Failed to combat hardline views’ (Daily Mail)
• Jeff Arnold: Who is Daniel Holtzclaw” Linebacker (SB Nation)
• Manny Fernandez, Serge F. Aleski and Alan Blinder: 170 Bikers Charged in Melee With Roots in ’60s (New York Times)
• Julia Hartley-Brewer: Today’s feminists are so out of touch with how most women live, they might as well be on another planet (The Telegraph)
• Stuart Pink: Kicked in the Bowls: Beyonce in Black power race storm
• Ellen Barry: With Sri Srinivasan, Indian Town Prays for a ‘Son’ on Supreme Court

Up to 4 choices:

Publications:

• The Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph
• London Evening Standard
• The Guardian/The Observer
• Metro
• The Independent/Independent on Sunday
• The New Day
• The Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday
• The Spectator
• The New Statesman
• Financial Times
• The Times/The Sunday Times
• City A.M.
• The Daily Express/The Sunday Express
• The Sun/The Sun on Sunday
• The Daily Mirror/The Sunday Mirror
• Sunday People
• The Daily Star/The Daily Star Sunday

1 choice: