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Hallo Readers,

What would you think if someone pitched this to you as a movie script? The mother of two children is again pregnant, a much wanted third child for the family. At 20 weeks, she discovers that the foetus has a rare genetic defect, Trisomy 18, which would cause a miscarriage or result in a stillbirth or cause the baby to die shortly after birth. Continuing the pregnancy would also be a risk to the mother resulting in a possible ruptured uterus because she had already had two C-sections which could compromise her health and her future fertility. Unfortunately for the parents, they live in a place which forbids abortions from conception, and has no exception for severe fetal abnormality. Abortion can only be permitted whether there is a severe risk to the mother’s health. The woman goes to court with medical evidence justifying the procedure and a judge grants permission for the abortion. However, the attorney general, a man who narrowly escaped impeachment for corruption, and who is facing criminal charges of fraud in 2024, appeals against the judge’s ruling. Not only that, but he also writes letters to all the local hospitals threatening any doctor, nurse or midwife who assists the mother in aborting the child with criminal prosecution, which could result in a sentence of 99 years’ imprisonment. When the case reaches the Supreme Court, one of the judges hearing the appeal is a Christian fundamentalist, anti-abortion nutter, who, according to himself, was arrested 37 times for protesting outside abortion clinics, and had been convicted of committing crimes of those protests. Despite this, he was elected to the Supreme Court. It does not apparently occur to him to recuse himself. The Supreme Court overturns the judge’s decision on the grounds that the mother has not proved that the risk to her health is sufficiently severe, and that she has to give birth. At which point, the mother’s husband drives her to another jurisdiction, where she has the abortion. That itself is not illegal. However, it is still possible for the husband to be prosecuted for aiding and abetting an abortion, and anyone else who might have assisted in getting this woman to a place of safety to have the procedure she did not want, but felt was inevitable on the grounds of her health, and to save any pain to the child, if it were born before dying a short time thereafter. 

But this is not fiction. This is Texas in 2023. The woman is  called Kate Cox. The attorney general is called Ken Paxton. The Supreme Court judge is called John Devine. Texas is a state where, in the name of God Almighty, the woman is to be forced to carry a foetus to term, which will almost certainly be born dead or die within weeks, and which could cause her to die or to to become infertile. This is the reality of pro-life in 21st-century Gilead.

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We start our review of the week’s catastrophic clothing with actor Charles Melton wearing Valentino.

Charles is a seriously handsome man who can get away with more than most, but even he cannot carry off looking like a perambulating pomegranate ice lolly. And it grieves WTF to note how Valentino produced such a silly pair of trousers, billowing away like billy-o.

This is actor Maya Hawke at the LA premiere of Maestro wearing Prada.

Maya is the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman but that genetic package does not disguise the fact that she is resembles a brown silk lampshade with its bra showing. As for the white tights and silk shoes, the 1960s called and wants them back. And they can have them.

Another Prada victim, actor Claire Foy at the premiere of All of Us Strangers.

If Phoebe the Muppet had a prolapse and went around in a cape, this is what she would look like.

She’s back! Julia Fox at large …..

Insofar as Julia ever did any acting, which is denied, she now has given it up in favour of wearing stupid outfits and getting her picture everywhere. Including, of course, in this blog, which is morally bound to you, Readers, to highlight fashion monstrosities wherever and whenever they arise. At least most of her body is under wraps, albeit that the wraps are very silly like the Calvin Klein slip and the motorcycle jacket with the mortal remains of a dead bird, with more mortal remains fashioned into a handbag. But the real showstopper are those boots, like something seen on a vintage German doll.

Meet actor Andra Day at the premiere in New York of The Color Purple.

The colour was obviously chosen to complement the movie title but there is too much of a good thing, or, in this case, bucketfuls of too much of a good thing, like something that you would expect to see hanging off a Christmas tree. Meanwhile, the stylist who selected those pointy lace up sandals to be worn with the glitteringly gaudy hosiery deserves a slap, a P 45 and another slap.

 
And finally the preposterous wife of Kanye West, Australian architect Bianca Censori in Los Angeles.

WTF has never been able to understand why someone would walk around almost as naked as the day they were born, thereby exposing themselves to the vicissitudes of the weather and yet wear a fur hat which, while it might keep her scalp warm, will do nothing to keep her bits and pieces toasty. Which presumably is the purpose of the teddy bear, part minge mask and part thermal blanket. Why the citizens of California have been singled out for exposure to Bianca’s nipples and arse cheeks only she and her ridiculous husband can say. Note that Kanye is more wrapped up than a Kandahar widow, displaying only his eyes and a pair of black socks worn with leather mules. There is something seriously wrong with her, with him and with their relationship.

This week’s It’s got to go comes from WTF aficionado Nigel of Haringey. His council, like many others in London, continues to beset unfortunate motorists with new tortures in order to force them to set fire to their cars and hop on a bike, to facilitate which it has reduced every major road to the width of a postage stamp while giving cyclists their own lane on each side of the road, usually wider than the lanes allocated for motor vehicles. The problem is exacerbated to the power of n by the fact that the vast majority of cyclists ride around at night dressed in black on black bikes with no lights, not even of any kind, making turning left or right across the cycling lanes a complete and utter nightmare.

If cyclists are indeed to dominate the highways, then at least make them take some responsibility including the compulsory acquisition of lights front and back and some sort of high visibility jacket. Because Nigel is sick to the back teeth of the hazards of driving around and WTF is right behind him. It’s got to go.

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Let us meet again next Friday for the joys of the fabled WTF Christmas Turkey Poll 2023, where a variety of appalling fashion choices await your selection. Be good x