The Bad Grammar awards are prize stupidity

Right-wing and wrong-headed, this smug exercise is fuelled by ignorance disguised as knowledge

It's a big night on Thursday at the Idler Academy, which hosts its second annual Bad Grammar awards. The founder Tom Hodgkinson promises "a thrilling X-factor for pedants".

This year's judges Jeremy Paxman, restaurateur Rowley Leigh and the Guardian's own Hadley Freeman will be assessing a shortlist that includes Tesco (for their "most tastiest" orange juice and a fewer/less confusion), the cafe chain Apostrophe, for the apostrophe in its slogan ("Great taste on it's way"), and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt, teased in the House of Commons by Michael Gove for misusing a semicolon and committing the sin of tautology.

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