A Newsnight editor has been shortlisted for a Bad Sex award by the Literary Review.

Paul Mason, who is the economics editor of the BBC programme, could win the prize for having written the worst sex scene in fiction over the past year, according to the Evening Standard.

The 52-year-old from Leigh in Lancashire is nominated for a passage in his debut book Rare Earth, which features an overweight businessman struggling to manoeuvre himself into a tantric position…

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