Awards must honour merit not gender

Oprah Winfrey’s man-the-barricades speech at this week’s dressed-in-black Golden Globe awards catapulted her into America’s consciousness as a possible White House contender.

Whether that moment of peak celebrity transpires into something more substantial, only time can tell.

However, it is disheartening but understandable that all a person has to do today is to make a powerful, coherent speech that reflects the zeitgeist to seem a plausible contender for the most powerful position in the world. Much more is required.