Nadine’s wrong about the Brits

CULTURE Secretary Nadine Dorries is against the pop music Brit Awards scrapping gendered categories next year. She told a Parliamentary Committee on Monday that it was ‘quite a sad decision’.

But why Nadine, why? What is the problem? After all, the Grammy Awards, the American equivalent of our humble Brits, have been gender free for over ten years.

Pop star Sam Smith, who identifies as non-binary and was excluded from the Brits categories this year, was among those lobbying for the change. And Sam is right — why should anyone be excluded? Gender has nothing to do with a great song or a terrific performance.

Nadine is anti-woke but is she half-awake, that’s what I want to know? this feels like a knee-jerk reaction, rather than anything properly considered. She feels that if gender categories are scrapped, women won’t be fairly represented in the 2022 Brits, but that is crazy because Adele is going to win everything anyway.

Nad’s reasoning for keeping best male and best female categories is that ‘if you wanted to look at who used to win awards for novels and many things in the past, then men always dominated’.

Of course Nadine is a novelist herself and many cruel people have pointed out that there was a reason why she didn’t win the Booker Prize and it had nothing to do with gender. Here is a damp sample from the bedpan povera literary style she has made her own in bestsellers such as the Angels Of lovely lane.

‘Emily smelt something that made her mouth water. turning round she saw an earthenware pot on the kitchen table covered by a tea towel, and instantly tears, which were never far from the surface, sprang to her eyes.’

I smelt something, too, as Nadine might write. eau de Hokum. Anyway, it is time to celebrate the achievements of artists for the music that they create and the work that they do, irrespective of gender.