As many people may already know, previous winners of the Dork of the Year (DotY) award have been -
2022 Tony Blair
2021 Jacinda Ardern
2020 Prince Harry
2019 Jo Swinson
2018 The British Electorate
2017 Michael Heseltine
2016 Mark Carney
2015 Ed Miliband
2014 Naomi Klein
All worthy winners, but what about 2023? As so often the number of Qualifying Dorks seems to increase year by year and the annual DotY award edges ever closer to being an impossible task. Naturally enough Joe Biden still has the apparently unassailable lead he has held for some time.
Yet there are those on the DotY Committee who see a vote for Joe as akin to kicking a seaside donkey, so we do have a preliminary list of Qualifying Dorks other than old Joe. As always, the list is bound to be expanded as suggestions arise.
Joe Biden
Jill Biden
Hunter Biden
Rishi Sunak
“Sir” Keir Starmer
Yet there are those on the DotY Committee who see a vote for Joe as akin to kicking a seaside donkey, so we do have a preliminary list of Qualifying Dorks other than old Joe. As always, the list is bound to be expanded as suggestions arise.
Joe Biden
Jill Biden
Hunter Biden
Rishi Sunak
“Sir” Keir Starmer
"Sir" Ed Davey
Angela Rayner
Gary Lineker
King Charles
Gary Lineker
King Charles
Greta Thunberg
John Kerry
Gavin Newsom
Alissa Heinerscheid
Humza Yousaf
Sadiq Khan
Justin Welby
Pope Francis
Justin Trudeau
Matt Hancock
Rachel Reeves
Ursula von der Leyen
John Kerry
Gavin Newsom
Alissa Heinerscheid
Humza Yousaf
Sadiq Khan
Justin Welby
Pope Francis
Justin Trudeau
Matt Hancock
Rachel Reeves
Ursula von der Leyen
12 comments:
How's about Al Gore as a late arrival?
One of the key parts of the 'dork' definition is 'unfashionable'. Many people already proposed are perhaps too fashionable and Joe Biden is just mentally unfit.
Nevertheless I vote for Joe Biden - he won't realise we are talking about him anyway.
Such a wealth of candidates. The Biden Crime Syndicate is tempting, but Humza gets my vote.
Scrobs - good idea, I'll add him to the list.
DJ - I use it in the idiot sense, but the unfashionable aspect is interesting, especially since COP28. These people seem to promote views which are fashionable in the West but perhaps not globally fashionable.
Chromatistes - yes, Humza must be a strong candidate. The next election could be interesting for him.
De-dorking announcement: Ian "Wrong 'un" Wright is to leave Match of the Day. If they'd please sack Alan "Elbows" Shearer and the Most Reverend Louche Lineker I'd be content.
dearieme - I haven't watched MOTD for years, but still don't understand why Shearer is there, his presentation style is so dull. Recent glimpses show he's just the same.
The football is much improved - the pitches are better, the players fitter and more skilful. But you still get the droning "experts" you have to silence between games. And they now also have female commentators not one of whom has a pleasant voice. They all screech.
One female exception: I heard a woman once whom they used not as a commentator but as an "analyst" to make intelligent remarks at half time. She was top drawer. Turned out to be the manager of Chelsea Women's team.
Do you remember the lovely voice of Moira Stuart? They should have brought her out of retirement.
I'd like to suggest BBC reporter Nick Robinson, partly for being a pro-Europe establishment toad, and specifically for his interview with Nadine Dorries on the Today programme. His lie that he had seen the legendary gold wallpaper bought by Boris for no. 10 required an apology. Which he managed to make sound graceless, and he also neglected to say sorry for the blustering know-all tone which he used in order to sound like the plausible political insider.
I'll second that Sam!
Chuck in the rest of them except Naga, who gets double votes!
dearieme - ah yes, Moira Stuart, voices do make a difference even on TV.
Sam - Nick Robinson is a good choice. The know-all tone of the inventive office gossip who can't cope with being found out.
Scrobs - ah yes, Naga is another good one.
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