Daily Mail column attacking Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, photo by @MichaelPDeacon (Twitter)

Daily Mail column attacking Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, photo by @MichaelPDeacon (Twitter)   (Click to enlarge: opens in new window)

BBC food contest ‘Great British Bake Off’ grips millions. This year it was won by Nadiya Hussain, who happens to be Muslim.

Right-wing rag the Daily Mail has featured the Bake Off winner on their front page every year since the series began. Until last week.

Why? Columnist Amanda Platell complained Bake Off contestant Flora Shedden, knocked out in the semi-finals, was “too middle class” to win (see below).

The Daily Mail’s take: “if she’d made a chocolate mosque, she’d have stood a better chance.” This provoked public outraged.

Clearly feeling the flack, the Mail wrote a follow-up – this time celebrating Nadiya’s win. The paper did still think it important to slur Nadiya by mentioning she married her husband the year of the 7 July London bombings, in Leeds, the city three of the culprits were from.

Ian Pattison