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Hallo Readers,

Recently, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Bit by bit, the basic norms which we thought governed public life in the civilised democracies we inhabit have become watered down to the point where they are barely recognisable. But this week, those norms have become so liquid that they have literally dissolved into a fond memory of the time when decency, compassion and integrity had some, albeit limited, sway. So here are a few things that have happened this week, both here and in the United States.

• The Labour Home Secretary, herself the daughter of immigrants and a practising Muslim, actually proposed adopting a practise used in Denmark, albeit only 17 times, to strip jewellery from asylum-seekers arriving in this country unlawfully, in order to sub their trip back whence they came. Even though the reason that many of them are here in the first place was because we fucked up their countries by unwise, and probably unlawful, military interventions. WTF is the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe. The idea that they would, or could, have been treated in this way is simply appalling. The Reform Party, that ragbag of political opportunists, racists, Putin-admirers and President-47 worshippers, approved what the Home Secretary was proposing. So did scumbag Tommy Robinson, the 21st Century’s Nelson Mandela. When Tommy Robinson thinks that you are doing the right thing, then you are doing the wrong thing. It is that simple.

 

• The President of the United States not only welcomed a man who had sanctioned the murder of a Washington Post journalist into the Oval Office, but he vigorously defended him from allegations of complicity in that murder. Indeed, he claimed that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia had known nothing about it, even though his own Intelligence Services had concluded the exact opposite. Further, he praised the Prince for his ‘dedication to human rights’. WTF was previously unaware that being chopped up into little pieces, and then having your pieces shipped back to Saudi Arabia on a private jet in the company of the people who had just chopped you up, was a human right. If so, it is one that she would rather not claim for herself. President 47 went even further and suggested that the journalist in question, Jamal Khashoggi, had it coming, in that he was ‘very controversial’ and that ‘a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen’.

 

• President 47 yesterday suggested that six democratic lawmakers, all of whom had distinguished military careers before coming to Washington DC, had committed sedition and merited hanging. Their crime? Making a video in which they called upon the United States military to disobey unlawful orders. The lawmakers were presumably referring to the President’s penchant for bombing fishing boats in the Caribbean on the pretext that they were carrying drugs, without bothering to produce any proof. President 47 and Goebbels Barbie, his ever-so-Christian Press Secretary, have clearly never heard of the Nuremberg Trials, which, coincidentally, began 80 years ago, and where the defence of ‘we were only following orders’ was given short shrift.

Oh, and the President of the United States told a journalist asking him a pertinent question,‘quiet, quiet piggy’. And none of the other journalists around her said a damn thing. Because this is the new normal.

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We need cheering up. We start our review of the week’s outrageous outfits at the Governors Awards  in LA with actor Emily Blunt, wearing Schiaparelli.

All together now……AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! The ultimate satin and tulle minge triangle. And it’s puckered -WTF speaks of the minge triangle, and not of Emily’s minge, although we are within milliseconds of finding out about that one as well. Meanwhile, in her quest for useless knowledge, WTF discovered this week that ‘Minge’ is the the Romanian for ball and that a Romanian homeware site is offering these minge triangles for serving rice.  Who knew?

 

Jeremy Strong was also there, wearing Louis Vuitton.

Brown is Jeremy’s schtick but this is really putrid, even by his own subterranean standards, comprising nasty, stained, brown denim. WTF is reminded of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands and his dirty protest in his cell during the Troubles in Northen Ireland. And as for the shoes…

 

Now we note a nasty new trend on two bright stars of the acting firmament. Allegedly. First, actor Diane Kruger at an HBO bash wearing Erdem. Scroll down slowly.

Er, what? Sorry? And the same nonsense is on actor Jamie Campbell Bower at the London premiere of Stranger Things.

Er, sorry? What? Why?  That is the question. Why? Since when did Chassidic tzitzits become high fashion? 

 

Now we are at one of the many premieres of Wicked: For Good. This is actor Michelle Yeoh, wearing Givenchy.

Hubert du Givenchy, who founded the atelier, dressed Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress and pearls. His successors dressed Michelle as a giant lemon mousse cake.

 

And here is actor Jeff Goldblum, aka the Wizard, wearing Craig Green.

As WTF has previously remarked, there is wacky and there is wanky. This left wanky so far back down the road that it is now out of sight. The colours seem to have been inspired by the Walt Disney movie Fantasia, and the black shoes with it look downright dumb.

 

To the US GQ Awards where we encounter actor Rachel Sennott, wearing Chloé. Scroll down slowly.

This kiddies’ book title says it all. PS. Rachel is 30 years old.

 

Finally, we are at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas with singer Juliane Gamboa, wearing Namino Atelier. 

Atelier! Namino has knocked up this dress from a couple of those covers that grocers put on soft fruit to stop them getting crushed, and then stuck some raffia at either end. Dismal.

 This week’s It’s Got to Go comes from WTF aficionado WTF of Islington, with the heartfelt support of many others, who is sick to the back teeth of the non-stop saga of the family woes afflicting engaged couple Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay. The Daily Mail has talked of little else for weeks. Adam was a champion swimmer with medals coming out of his ears. Holly is the daughter of celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay, which seems to be the only reason why she is famous.  

Adam and Holly are apparently dead keen on each other, and father of the bride-to-be Gordon and his wife Tana are dead keen on Adam. Sadly, Adam’s mum and dad have not been shown the same love, and they are sicker than ailing parrots, feeling themselves to be the low men on the totem pole. For example, Holly had a hen night to which her mum, and her mum’s bessie mate, Victoria Beckham, were invited, but to which Adam’s mum, Caroline, was not. Ever since this slight, Caroline and her sister Louise have not been off social media; Adam’s brother James has been arrested for sending threatening messages; the Peaty family have now been disinvited from the nuptuals; and everyone who has ever known anyone called Peaty, even ever-so-vaguely, has been popping out of the woodwork and giving their version of events, regardless of whether they know anything or not. To which WTF says – who gives a flying fuck?? Why are these people occupying oceans of space in national newspapers and magazines? Enough already. It’s Got to Go.

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Please keep sending in your top suggestions for It’s Got to Go, 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