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Hallo Readers,

This week’s rant is combined with It’s Got to Go and is the same as last week’s It’s Got to Go. Because he didn’t go last week although he should have done and he is still there this week. Joe Biden is resisting the awful truth, which is that his brain freezes and growing frailty mean there is understandable fear that he is not up to the job. After his horrible and disastrous performance two weeks ago in the Presidential Debate against a lying, bloviating Donald Trump, the world has waited for proof that this was an aberration. And yes, he has read off the autocue quite effectively and he is not permanently gaga and he still has an excellent grasp of world affairs, having forgotten things Trump never knew. BUT.. …

People who interact with him are alarmed because he is frail physically and sometimes absent mentally. Tonight, after the NATO conference in Washington, he introduced President Zelenskyy as President Putin. PRESIDENT FUCKING PUTIN. And then in the press conference called to prove to the world that he still had it, he referred to Vice-President Harris as Vice-President Trump. Yes, he has always made gaffes but this is not the time to make gaffes. Not when the US and the World are concerned that his faculties are failing and if he is like this now at 81, what will he be like in four years time?

Here is what breaks WTF’s heart. He is a good man. He has been a good President.  In his press conference last night (early morning in the UK) he gave cogent and thoughtful answers about world affairs. Sadly it is probably too late. The damage is done. Watching the press wait for his public disintegration is like the 21st version of bear-baiting. But sentiment cannot prevail. Not when the alternative to him is four more years of Donald Trump. A man who spouts nonsense all the time. A man who is a convicted criminal. A man who is wholly immoral. A man whose acolytes are planning to turn the US into Gilead where a corrupt Supreme Court will happily uphold the end of abortion, the end of birth control, the end of gay marriage and a vengeful pursuit of anyone who opposed the most dangerous, ignorant and malignant President in the history of America. A man who will abandon Ukraine and leave Europe at Putin’s mercy. Trump is a buffoon but he is also a monster. The question is will people have enough faith in Biden to vote against Trump, or take the gamble that Biden, even as he is, will be better than Trump? And sadly, there is every chance that they will not.

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We start our review of the week’s woeful wear with singer and now actress Rita Ora in New York, promoting her movie “Descendants – The Rise of Red”.

If a wheel of Gouda cheese went to a fancy dress party as a buttoned Valentine, this is what it would look like. Surely there should be more of it or, failing that, something of something else, like a skirt? WTF also hates the hair, like Medusa on a bad day.

Still in New York, we find Katy Perry wearing Sportmax at the Stonewall National Monument Pride Live event.

How does Katy keep getting it so wrong? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day? The dress with its velcro fastenings resembles a nappy and the boot thingies make it appear that she has sprained both of her ankles.

We go to Downing Stree, where we finally saw the back of Rishi Sunak. As he took his leave of power, his wife, Akshata Murty, stood behind him like a member of the Praetorian Guard, wearing Indian designer, Ka-Sha. And carrying an umbrella, which shows she has more sense than her husband. Which, let’s face it, is not difficult.

This is £400 of striped nastiness, like one of those toy Ruritanian soldiers hanging off the Christmas tree. Whether her expression is caused by the circumstances, the weather or the realisation that she was strobing on screen, inducing serious migraines across the nation, WTF cannot say. As for white shoes, they are a bad idea except on brides.

Then later that afternoon, Angela Rayner strolled along Downing Street to be formally crowned as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Levelling Up wearing a shirt, short jacket and toning wide pleated trousers by Me+Em.

The real question is what on earth happened between Angela removing the tissue paper from the garments in question and actually putting them on? This is what the outfit looks like in the catalogue…..

Did she try it on in her excitement at the Labour landslide when she got home from the after-party and then fell asleep on the sofa? Because WTF can think of no other  explanation for how the ensemble came to resemble a crumpled tarpaulin. She needs a stylist. And an iron. What she did not need was the snobbery at her wearing a £500 suit. Had she turned up in H&M she would have got flak for that as well. The snobbery is directed at her because she has a pronounced northern accent, was a single mum at 16 and didn’t go to university. Well suck it up, guys, because she’s Deputy PM. For at least the next five years.

Here we are in Berlin for the German premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine starring actor Emma Corrin wearing YSL.

Emma has a great pair of legs but this is an excrescence, not to mention an imminent Minge Moment. Like Rita, there is a shortfall in the skirt/trousers department. As there is with actor and professional kiteboarder Maika Monroe wearing something or other at the afterparty for the LA premiere of her new movie Longlegs.

Those tits are improbable, the nails are impossible and the outfit is unspeakable. Can women please stop going out with their nether regions on display? 

And finally, he is back for a second week. WTF speaks of influencer Pelayo Diaz wearing Dolce & Gabbana at its Alta Moda bash in Sardinia, Italy. Brace yourselves.

Oh please. He is wearing voluminous bloomers under a lace something or other and lace trousers. WTF hates a see-through trouser almost above all things. And he is carrying a little handbag, a mini version of the one that used to be carried by our late Queen Just go away.

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week.  Keep the comments coming in and your suggestions for It’s Got To Go. Let us meet again next Friday, when perhaps we will have won the Euros. Be good.