WTF Opportunity Knocks Special
Hallo Readers, In a notable example of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, Boris Johnson has reshuffled his Cabinet to make it look as if he is DOING SOMETHING. As this appears to consist of...
View ArticleWTF Prince Andrew Special
Hallo Readers, We live in an age in which charity, selflessness and generosity are met with cynicism. And so it is that when the royal formerly known as HRH Prince Andrew gave a woman whom he had never...
View ArticleWTF Worst Week Ever Special
Hallo Readers, It is an understatement to say that this has been one hell of a week, as if the world had fallen into a food mixer with the lid off, spattering disaster in every direction. Over the...
View ArticleWTF Volodymyr Special
Hallo Readers, This week a man was recognised for his contribution to making the world a better, braver, more ethical place. Such courage! Such charisma! No, not Volodymyr Zalenskyy. We will get to him...
View ArticleWTF Leading the World Special
Hallo Readers, This Government keeps telling us that Britain is leading the world’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is true. Britain’s response to dealing with Ukrainian refugees is...
View ArticleWTF Success Special
Hallo Readers Jacob Rees-Mogg popped up on the radio this week in an interview on LBC. For some people the big takeaway was his admission that he had never owned a pair of jeans or a tee shirt. Of...
View ArticleWTF Send Her Back Special
Hallo Readers, In Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit, Mark Tapley, Martin’s manservant, does his best to remain relentlessly cheerful despite the many vicissitudes which meet man and master. One suspects...
View ArticleWTF Super-Enormous Oscars Special
Hallo Readers, Forty years ago, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Acknowledging the failure to prevent this debacle, Lord Carrington, the Foreign Secretary, promptly resigned and John Nott, the...
View ArticleWTF Scheherazade Special
Hallo Readers, This Government has a habit of saying no which turns out to mean yes. More specifically, it means no when it says no, but then it finds itself unable to progress with no because no comes...
View ArticleWTF Freddie Filth MP Special
Hallo Readers, Over the years the esteem in which the public holds Members of Parliament has become less and less reverential. Heaven knows, there have been many low points recently including...
View ArticleWTF Super-Gigantic Tenth Birthday Special
Hallo Readers, It is WTF’s tenth birthday and it has been one hell of a ride. Over the past decade, the clothes have got sillier and the world has got worse. Since 2012, we have gone through Brexit and...
View ArticleWTF Beergate Special
Hallo Readers, And so we stagger on in the long-running Whitehall farce that is Partygate. WTF cannot even be bothered to go back over the bollocks meted out to the British people where every day some...
View ArticleWTF Sue Gray Special
Hallo Readers, Is he sorry? Is he hell. But then in Boris Johnson’s mind what does he have to be sorry about? Yes, he popped in to party after party, not that they were parties, and yes he had a drink...
View ArticleWTF Dead Cat Bounce Special
Hallo Readers Boris Johnson is saved for the nation! Of course he is – for now. Not overwhelmingly, but in the sneaky, scraping-through, abject, shambling sort of way that he gets through life – not...
View ArticleWTF The Only Way is Ethics Special
Hallo Readers, The late and much lamented Peter Cook and Dudley Moore did a deeply disgusting sketch about the worst job in the world. WTF is not going to repeat the details, so you will just have to...
View ArticleWTF Brexit Anniversary Special
Hallo Readers, Big News! Boris Johnson finally managed to deport somebody to Rwanda – himself. Sadly, unlike the unfortunates who might find themselves flying there courtesy of the UK taxpayer, he has...
View ArticleWTF The Fans Hit the Shit Special
Hallo Readers, You may have noticed that the Prime Minister is going to resign once the Tory party elects his successor. Given that its efforts in recent years have given us Theresa May and Boris...
View ArticleWTF Penny Dreadful Special
Hallo Readers, Joni Mitchell once sang ‘don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’. You have to say that she was right on the nail. Although Boris Johnson has not...
View ArticleWTF New
Hallo Readers, Six more weeks of this. Six more weeks of two people you can’t stand vying with each other to replace someone else you can’t stand, with the winner being decided by 200,000 people you...
View ArticleWTF Going Nowhere Special
Hallo Readers, Have you noticed how absolutely nothing works in this country anymore? It is so embarrassing. It is either too hot, or too cold, or the wrong sort of rain, or the wrong sort of snow, or...
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