WTF Mugabe Fall from Grace Special
Hallo Readers, In 1980 Robert Mugabe, a clever, educated, erudite, passionate, man who had spent much of his life either in prison or in exile, was elected as Zimbabwe’s first black Prime Minister. The...
View ArticleWTF Transatlantic Love Special
Hallo Readers, You know how it is with long distance relationships. At the beginning it is so romantic, flying across oceans to snatch weekends together, phone calls, tweets and FaceTime. Meeting up...
View ArticleWTF Furious Special
Hallo Readers Last Saturday, WTF was so outraged by everyone and everything that she practically exploded. She was put on the Twitter naughty step and was generally homicidal and downright furious....
View ArticleWTF Size Matters Special
Hallo Readers And Happy New Year, Size matters, and it certainly matters a lot to Donald J Trump. He is 6’2″(and almost as wide as he is tall – he has, in the words of WTF’s late mother, gone double)....
View ArticleWTF Reshuffle Special
Hallo Readers, In 1967, the Hollies, a popular singing troupe, had a hit with a song called King Midas In Reverse. You get the picture. Unlike the mythical monarch whose touch turned everything to...
View ArticleWTF Carillion Special
Hallo Readers, Last week, we considered how Mrs Maybe’s Cabinet reshuffle went totally tits up. This week, we consider how mega-corporation Carillion went totally tits up. On Monday it was defunct....
View ArticleWTF Grammys Deep Horror Special
Hallo Readers, Would you put the Chief Rabbi in charge of the Pork Promotion Programme? You would not. So why would you put climate change deniers in charge of your environmental policy? In the US, the...
View ArticleWTF Parade Special
Hallo Readers, Think about a military parade. Think Kim Jong Un, fatly presiding over endless rows of anti-aircraft guns and goose-stepping soldiers, their kicks higher than the chorus line of the...
View ArticleWTF BAFTAs, BRITs and Other Shockers Special
Hallo Readers, On the face of it, the Parkland school shooting, where 19 year old Nicholas Cruz murdered 17 people with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, was just one more incident when a homicidal...
View ArticleWTF Chumocracy Special
Hallo Readers, It has been a bad week for the Johnson Brothers, Boris and Jo. And a worse week for the taxpayer who had to pay for their mistakes, not to mention the enquiries into their mistakes....
View ArticleWTF Stormy Special
Hallo Readers, Ever since it emerged that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, forked out $130,000 from his own pocket to silence a porn actress by the name of Stormy Daniels, who claims to...
View ArticleWTF Data Special
Hallo Readers, Do you know who these two are? You should. They have a finger in all sorts of rightwing apple pies. They have the majority of shares in the cloaca that is Cambridge Analytica. They prop...
View ArticleWTF Labour Special
Hallo Readers, It has been an interesting week to be a Jew. We have had the antisemitism Jews declaring that they have had enough of the Labour Party’s failure to take antisemitism seriously and the...
View ArticleWTF Lawyers Special
Hallo Readers, Whilst WTF has been on blog holiday, it has all gone off with Donald Trump and Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen. You may recall that Cohen is the generous lawyer who sorted out Trump’s...
View ArticleWTF Amber Alert Special
Hallo Readers, Here is the bad news. Albert Thompson has prostate cancer. Here is the good news. The NHS has now given him a date in May when he will start radiotherapy. Here is more bad news....
View ArticleWTF Met Gala Mega-Nonsense Special
Hallo Readers, Democracy is a pain. You have to put up with idiotic decisions made by other people because they are more of them. Or, in the case of the USA, there are less of them but the cockamamie...
View ArticleWTF Much Ado about Nothing Special
Hallo Readers, Did anyone actually think that an orange numbskull with the attention span of a gnat, who has been winging it since the day of his inauguration, and whose idea of diplomacy consists of...
View ArticleWTF Don’t #FreeTommy Special
Hallo Readers, There have been some major miscarriages of justice – the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, Stefan Kiszko. The conviction and incarceration of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, aka...
View ArticleWTF Somewhere Over the Rainbow Special
Hallo Readers, A border is a thing that marks the difference between your land and someone else’s land. That is yours, this is mine. It might be a fence or a wall or a river; it might be barbed wire or...
View ArticleWTF Kiddies Special
Hallo Readers, Up until Wednesday evening, the USA was separating children from their would-be migrant parents in compliance with what we were assured was the law of the land. Attorney-General Jeff...
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