Congratulations to Simon Barnes of The Times, inaugural winner of this prestigious award. The prize is a boxed set of two books - a Roget's Thesaurus and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. He may have trouble disappearing up his own arse with these, but he will no doubt try. As this snippet illustrates too well:
"He (Giggs) has just scored his 100th league goal for Manchester United, so it’s a nice moment to applaud him as he lifts his bat, and to muse on the idiosyncratic gallop – at full pace, he is recognisable from half a mile away – and that expression, seen far too often, alas, of profound and innocent bewilderment because the ball that he has struck has failed to find the goal."
"He (Giggs) has just scored his 100th league goal for Manchester United, so it’s a nice moment to applaud him as he lifts his bat, and to muse on the idiosyncratic gallop – at full pace, he is recognisable from half a mile away – and that expression, seen far too often, alas, of profound and innocent bewilderment because the ball that he has struck has failed to find the goal."
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