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Hallo Readers,

Last week 30p Lee Anderson, former Labour councillor turned Tory MP, had the whip suspended after mouthing off that London Mayor Sadiq Khan was controlled by Islamists. This came after former Home Secretary Suella Braverman opined that Islamists were running the country and the former prime minister, albeit for 10 minutes, Liz Truss stood next to mad-as-a-hatter Steve Bannon at a way, way past right-wing conference in the US did not contradict him when he called convicted thug Tommy Robinson a hero for his fight against Islamic paedophiles. Given that Bannon looks as if he has not had a bath since Trump left the White House, perhaps she was overwhelmed by the stench. Be that howsoever that may be, the fact is that only Anderson lost the whip and not the other two, who remain in the Tory fold. What, you may ask, is the difference between him and them? Teams of rocket scientists are currently working around the clock to solve this conundrum.

Given that the distinction is unclear, TV and radio interviewers have tried valiantly to get an explanation from the hapless ministers sent out to do the media rounds. None of them have succeeded. The word Islamophobic was not mentioned, try as they may. All that these wretched fools were able to tell us was that Anderson had refused to apologise, and therefore had to go, although what it was that he was supposed to apologise for remained as clear as mud. Presumably if a former deputy chairman of the party is shown the door, he must have done something pretty bad, but Party Chairman Oliver Dowden and Harry Potter lookalikey Michael Tomlinson KC, a man of whom WTF had never heard, were not letting on. Things got so bad that Tomlinson was actually thrown off Nick Ferrari’s radio programme on LBC for failing to depart from the mantra that what Anderson said was wrong without telling us why it was wrong. If only other interviewers took Ferrari’s line we might get somewhere. In the House of Commons on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak, who becomes more annoying with every week that passes, crowed about his principles without bothering to tell us why he needed to put them into practice. And so a week after Anderson’s ridiculous and offensive outburst, no one in the Tory party is willing to utter the word Islamophobic, even though anyone with half a brain knows exactly that is what it was. A few people however have performed the sort of semantic analysis that would make even the most brazen of M’learned friends bury their face in their hands with embarrassment. What Anderson said was not Islamophobic, they argue, but anti-Islamist. Which is drivel, because the statement clearly meant that Khan, a brown Muslim, was naturally in thrall to a group of Islamic extremists. And if that is not Islamophobic, WTF does not know what is. It is the time that people stop dancing on the head of a pin and called out any sort of prejudice for what it actually is.  And if Anderson will not apologise, which clearly he will not, then Sunak should do it on behalf of the party he purports to lead. But do not hold your breath…….

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We begin our review of the week’s clothing catastrophes at Milan Fashion week with our old friends rapper Kanye West and his sort-of-wife, bits-flasher Bianca Censori. As usual, he is covered from head to toe while she is not.

Kanye continues to sport bank robber chic while Bianca is giving us her all (again) in a thing which is half giant leather peaked cap and half cutaway nappy. And a cutaway nappy is as much use as a single chopstick. Apparently, Bianca’s dad, who has previous for violent crime in Sydney, is unhappy at the influence his sort-of-son-in-law is exerting over her and is vowing to intervene on his daughter’s behalf. Perhaps Kanye should keep that hood on indefinitely as well as changing his zip code. And his behaviour.

Still in Milan, here is TV personality and businesswoman Christine Chiu, star of Netflix’s Star Empire, wearing Moschino.

Knockers on her knockers. What else is there to say?

Next we are at the Screen Actors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles where we find actor Danielle Brooks wearing Christian Siriano.

Half jacket, half frock, full blown lilac fart. And no, you are not getting a picture.

Next up is star of Queer Eye, Tan France, (apparently he was born in Yorkshire, God’s own country. Who knew?). He designed the bow tie himself.

Tan says it is a bow tie, but it could be anything. Anything. Is it a pleasure stick? A propeller spoke?  On reflection, WTF decided that it is a conductor’s baton…..

Here is actor Melissa McCarthy in custom Puey Quinones.

Like a big blob of liquid mercury with puffy sleeves.

Now we have actor Maddie Ziegler wearing vintage Alexander McQueen.

It is vintage as in it has fallen apart in the storage box with plenty of chomping activity from moths various. The effect is of a bedraggled Éponine in Les Miserables in platform sandals.

Meet actor Cara Jade Myers (Killers of the Flower Moon) wearing Jontay Kahm.

Sorry, but that was a LONG film. There was time to go and have dinner in the middle and to come back and still have hours left. People do shorter prison sentences. As for the dress, if a prickly pear went to a fancy dress party as a maypole, this is what it would look like.

This is actor Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary) wearing Grayscale. 

Like a bell-hop in shit-brown. And the droopy bowtie is the pits.

Hallo to actor Olivia Williams (Camilla in The Crown) wearing Edeline Brown.

What is going on with those tits? It is like gazing at the moon from beneath a Polynesian beach shade.

And finally actor Ali Wong (Beef) is granted a rare WTF honour, namely featuring twice in the same post. Only a few people have been granted this recognition, and with good reason. First, here she is wearing Iris van Herpen at SAG.

Like the love child of a playing deck of playing cards and a peacock….. she must have needed her own bus to get her to the ceremony.

And here she is the next day at the Producers Guild of America Awards, wearing Erdem. 

A bedsheet and a strait jacket. OK…..

This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado WTF from Islington who is sick to the back teeth, and then some, of yet another blonde Trump lackey thrust upon us. We have had Nepotism Barbie (Ivanka Trump), Propaganda Barbie (Kayleigh McEnany) and Legal Barbie (Alina Habba). Now we have MoneyBox Barbie, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, the wife of village idiot Eric Trump. Lara  is set to be co-Chair of the Republican National Committee at her father-in-law’s insistence. She is as qualified for the role as WTF is to open the batting for England, having no obvious purpose other than to showcase a face full of botox. Look at the contrast between 2014 and 2024.

Lara has been appointed to allocate all RNC funds to pay Trump’s legal bills which are getting bigger than Mount Rushmore. She has already announced that all the money in the coffers will go to Trump which is something of a setback for other candidates who are hoping for a handout. She is ghastly and She’s Got to Go. 

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week.  Please keep sending in your suggestions for It’s Got To Go and your top comments, which WTF likes more than anything. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x