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WTF Twenty Years On Special
Hallo Readers, 20 years ago on 31 August 1997, the Nation went stark, raving mad. Princess Diana, “The Queen of People’s Hearts”, died in a car crash with her paramour in a car driven by a drunk...
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WTF Carry On Special
Hallo Readers, Last weekend, whilst Texas was beset by Hurricane Harvey and then a flood and all things biblical, whilst Texans watched their homes ruined and their possessions bobbing around the...
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WTF Houston Special
Hallo Readers This week, WTF invited her favourite leaver of comments on the blog, Andrew Purcell, to write about his experience when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston. He accepted and the result is...
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WTF Uber Special
Hallo Readers, Uber’s licence from Transport for London, the body regulating taxis and mini cabs, expires at the end of October. This week ten MPs wrote to TfL opposing any renewal and declaring Uber...
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WTF Fiddler’s Elbow Special
Hallo Readers, Politicians lie. They just do. Lawyers, who are generally regarded as lower than a snake’s belly, are grateful for politicians because otherwise they would the most reviled group in...
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WTF Theresa May Special
Hallo Readers, As Claudius remarked in Hamlet, “Gertrude, Gertrude, When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions”. Claudius must have had Theresa May in mind, although in her case,...
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WTF 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....
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WTF 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...
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WTF From Russia With Love Special
Hallo Readers, As fans of Midsomer Murders can attest, living in an English idyll does not preclude murder and mayhem but no-one associated leafy Salisbury with attempted homicide until a fortnight...
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WTF 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...
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WTF 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...
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WTF 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...
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WTF 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....
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WTF 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...
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WTF Meet the Markles Special
Hallo Readers If scriptwriters, high on crack, had come to a film producer with the script of Meet The Markles, they would probably have been run of town, so improbable is the concept and so unlikely...
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WTF 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...
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WTF Civility Special
Hallo Readers, Since the twin disasters of Brexit and Trump’s election, political discourse has sunk to depths previously accessible only to cavers, deep sea divers and submarines. Anything goes....
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WTF World Cup Special
Hallo Readers, To everyone’s amazement, Engerland made it through a penalty shootout to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup, and will face Sweden tomorrow afternoon. We are all very excited, apart,...
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WTF Hello and Goodbye Special
Hallo Readers, Apparently Boris Johnson could not stomach Mrs May’s Brexit deal that he had apparently agreed to last Friday, saying it would be like trying to polish a turd. And? We had a turd as...
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WTF Yes, No, Whoops, Special
Hallo Readers, This week, there has been one question on everyone’s lips. What the fuck is going on? Donald Trump spent the week performing more reverse backflips than the Moscow State Circus,...
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