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This week Lucy Connolly was released on licence after serving 40% of her 31-month sentence. Connolly had taken to Twitter in July 2024 while feral yobs were looting and rioting following the murder of three little girls in Southport by a young man armed with a knife. The riots were promoted by false rumours that the murderer was an aslyum seeker and a Muslim. He was neither; rather, he was the son of Gambian immigrants and had been born in Wales, he had been brought up as a Christian and he was psychopathically obsessed with violence and death. Connolly tweeted that there should be ‘mass deporation now’ and that her followers should ‘set fire’ to hotels containing aslyum seekers. By the time she removed the tweet a few days later, it had been viewed 310,000 times. Since her sentence in October, right-wingers have raged against her persecution and the denial of her free speech. The likes of JD Vance have called her a political prisoner. Her husband, a Tory Councillor in Nottinghamshire, told the press that his wife was a a ‘good person’ and ‘was not a racist’.  Because what could exemplify the teachings of Jesus Christ more than violent protesters burning people alive while others cheered them on before smashing the shopfront of Greggs to have it away with two dozen sausage rolls? Her defenders grew ever more vociferous after Labour Councillor described the rioters as ‘disgusting Nazi fascists’ in a public speech and then drew his hand across his throat. Ricky Jones pleaded not guilty and this week he was acquitted of encouraging violent behaviour at Snaresbrook Crown Court. At which point, right-wing outfits like GB News and fools like Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp rabbited on about ‘two-tier justice’. Frankly, WTF believes that a Shadow Home Secretary – not to mention anyone with two brain cells, which sadly excludes Philp- should be able to distinguish between a person who pleads guilty to a crime and another person who pleads not guilty and convinces a jury that he is innocent.

In September 2024, three months after the Labour Government took office, it released some terrible people in prison to make room for some other terrible people, because the prisons were bursting at the seams. The preceding Conservative Government had promised to build more prisons during its 14 year tenure, but had failed to do so and something radical was required. Prisons are still horribly overcrowded, downright insanitary and awash with drugs. Connolly spent 11 months in prison, as did other rioters, ABH and GBH merchants and sausage-roll-raiders. Now they are possibly to be joined by octogenarians, retired vicars and doctors and their ilk who were arrested en masse in London last weekend for protesting against the ban on Palestine Action. The protesters did not riot. They did not set anything or anyone on fire. They did not assault the police. They did not steal pastry items or smash windows. But they held up banners which stated that they supported Palestine Action and they were charged with, er, supporting Palestine Action, which is a proscribed organisation. Why? Because some members of the group have committed acts of criminal damage, including a very expensive attack on some RAF aeroplanes which. might or might not have been delivering arms to Israel. Under the legislation, committing crimes for a political cause is terrorism, although, as far as anyone knows, this is the first time that a group has been proscribed for criminal damage in the name of a political cause as opposed to murder, mayhem and causing injury or plotting to do so.

WTF is not in favour of criminal damage. Anyone who commits it should be sent to prison, along with the Southport rioters. But to proscribe a group as a terrorist organisation because a few of them have committed criminal damage is just absurd. Was the Anti-Apartheid movement in the UK a terrorist group because some of its members dug up a Test Match cricket pitch? And should people who do not believe that a group is a terrorist group be arrested and face prison for protesting? Of course not. It is ridicuous. Meanwhile, WTF looks forward to hearing JD Vance speak out in favour of this assault on freedom of speech. But she will not be holding her breath.

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We start our review of the week’s woeful wear with singer and WTF regular Rita Ora and her husband Taika Waititi at his 50th birthday party in Ibiza.

Most of the partygoers, including the birthday boy, are wearing actual clothes. In contrast, Rita is wearing her itsy-bitsy black bikini, a sheer negligee and a great deal of metal hardware, including cuffs last seen on Brienne of Tarth in Games of Thrones.

Next, here is personalitee and celebritee Myleene Klaas turning up for work at Smooth Radio in London, which she is paid to do, wearing a most ridiculous ensemble and a pair of bright orange Skechers, which she is paid to promote. 

Two for one, as it were. Make money from other work while you go to work. We should all have such work. The outfit is vile, with nothing having anything to do with anything else, not even in passing. But concern must also be expressed about Myleene’s face, which suggests that there has been some interference with the workings of nature.

Here is actor James Norton at the press launch of King & Conqueror, an historical drama on BBC, in which he stars as King Harold (the one who lost to William the Conqueror). James is wearing Giorgio Armani.

Giorgio Armani? Really? It’s crumpled, his trewsies have had an argument with his ankles and he is wearing stupid boots. That, and the artfully tousled hair, are less sophisticated elegance and more 1960’s cheeky chappie Tommy Steele.

In LA, Rihanna covered up her bump for a change. That is the good news. She wore this dress by Issey Miyake. That is the bad news.

Yurgle. What are those growths on her chest? She looks like candy floss gone mouldy.

Now we have actor Alicia Silverstone at the Televerse Festival in Los Angeles, wearing something horrid.

Check out the CCTV cameras. Alicia has been vandalised by graffiti.

We are now at the launch of HBO’s Peacemaker with actress Danielle Brooks wearing Albina Dyla.

The trousers are terrible, as is the Medusa corset (that is what it is sold as). WTF feels compelled to point out that Medusa had snakes growing out of her head. They were not nestling on her minge. 

Finally, we have actor Sarah Paulson at the Television Academy Hall of Fame wearing Khaite.

Sackcloth. She is wearing sackcloth. Designer sackcloth.

‘And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?’

This week’s That’s Not Even a Thing comes from WTF aficionados various who have pointed out that the 47/Putin peace talks last week appear to have ditched the idea of a ceasefire (the one 47 said would have to come out of the talks, or he would impose sanctions on Russia). Instead, 47 now says that they should not bother with a ceasefire and go straight to an end of the war, i.e. Do not pass Go and Do not collect £200.  In translation, this means that Putin refused to stop the fighting unless he got everything he has snatched to date, plus territory he has not yet even conquered. This went down very small with the European leaders, particularly Chancellor Merz of Germany.

Look. This is very simple. A cease fire is essential for peace talks to demonstrate good faith on both sides. Putin is not negotiating in good faith. He is not even negotiating. Only morons like 47 and Steve Witkoff would pretend that he is. Peace talks without a ceasefire is Not Even A Thing. 

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Please keep sending in your top suggestions for It’s Got to Go/That’s Not Even A Thing as well as your comments, which WTF much enjoys. You can follow her on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x