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Hallo Readers, 

Of course there is a right to protest against injustice and evil in all its forms. WTF hates what is happening in Gaza, hates the Israeli government. She also hates the way that the events of October 7th and since then have licenced open Jew hatred. The protests that have swept through American College campuses over the last few weeks have shown the difficulty of disentangling disgust and righteous anger directed towards the Israeli government and the American government that lends its support and the personalised, targeted abuse towards Jewish students at those colleges who have been subjected to obviously anti-Semitic restrictions on their rights to go to lectures, hold meetings, expressed their opinions and just be college students. Don’t tell WTF that shouting “go back to Poland” at an American born Jew is not anti-Semitism. Because it is. One wonders whether there would be the same rush to explain away this conduct were black students to be told to go back to Africa.

WTF always wondered at what point she would turn into her dad and it seems that that moment is either coming or has arrived. It is one thing to hold a demonstration on a campus and to call for that college, to whom sizable fees are being paid by the student, to disinvest in arms companies or Israeli companies or companies that invest in arms companies or Israeli companies. It is however quite another thing to build encampments on those campuses, bringing education to a halt. And to mount barricades where young men with their faces covered deny permission to obviously Jewish students to pass through. Or to force entrance into college buildings and occupy them for days at a time. And to resort to violence and throw missiles and burning flares and to trash property. WTF has no idea how many of the people wrapped behind their scarves are actually students and how many come from outside the college, and how many of them actually believe in the causes they are protesting for and how many do not but are there for the jolly. But it was unacceptable and the colleges were right to give them the ultimatum of stopping or be forcibly evicted.  Students who happily would quash the rights of others to speak and to learn and to be, expressed outrage at this curtailment for their own freedom of speech and complained noisily to the cameras that they were being silenced. Do they even for one moment see the irony?

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We start our review of the week’s fashion foolishness in New York with singer Charli XCX about to appear on a TV talkshow.

Look, when your footwear is bigger than your trousers, you have a problem. And if you are not actually wearing any trousers, you have a much bigger problem. Oh – and those boots are hideous, like a couple of elephant foot umbrella stands.

Now to Beverley Hills where Tiffany threw a glittering (see what I did there?) bash to launch its new jewellery collection. One of the guests was actor Quinta Brunson wearing Roland Mouret.

The dress would be fine were it not for the nursing pads. Are they part of the dress or did Quinta get worried about too much tittage and just shove them in before hitting the Red Carpet?

And now are at the Daily Front Row Fashion Awards in LA where stars and their stylists paraded about looking preposterous. For example, actor Lisa Rinna wearing Wiederhoeft.

If a pink straitjacket went to a fancy dress party as a bebowed prisoner on a chain gang, this is it what it would look like.

Here are two fashionistas, stylist Law Roach on the left and hairdresser Adir Abergel on the right.

Law is looking quite modest – for him – although he sadly appears to have lost a hand and is wearing very pointy pumps. As for Adir, he is giving the truth to Jesus’s words in Luke 4:23 when he said unto whoever it was he said it unto “And he said unto them, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever, we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country”. His hair does not appear to have said hallo to a bottle of shampoo for quite a while and what the actual fuck is he wearing? He looks like a suffragette in a papier-mâché cage.

And yet another stylist, this time side by side with his client. Meet Brett Alan Nelson and singer Doja Cat.

Jesus would have had a lot to say to Brett who went out and about in public in un-ironed shorts, half a bra and the sort of sleep mask you get when you fly First Class. And here is Doja properly full frontal, not really wearing Mark Gong and GCDS.

Since when were laddered tights and a visible gusset fashion? Just asking…..

And finally, here is actor Anya Taylor Joy at the Sydney premiere of her new movie Furiosa wearing Paco Rabanne.

If WTF were to show you a picture of Anya’s rear, you would see Anya’s rear. So she is sparing you her arsecheeks. At least when Saint Sebastian was peppered with arrows, he had the grace to cover his naughty bits in a loin cloth. Perhaps that is why he is a saint.

This week’s It’s Got to Go comes from WTF aficionado Daniel from Stevenage in Hertfordshire who is not at all happy about the fact that the moment the temperature rises above 14 degrees, English men decide to throw off their trousers and adorn themselves in shorts showcasing pasty legs, with or without tattoos, usually worn with manky trainers. Which at least is better than open-toed sandals, seeing that most men have never heard of the word pedicure, or, for that matter, a chiropodist. He’s right. It’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