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Hallo Readers, 

Such is the madness currently raging across the Atlantic, that it is sometimes inevitable that WTF forgets to look a little closer to home. That and the fact that she is completely, not to say dangerously, obsessed with American politics in general, and the Rancid Kumquat in particular. So let us have a brief catch up of events 3000 miles away and then examine what is happening in the UK.

Renée Good is still dead. Despite the evidence of our own eyes, the Administration and craven Republican Senators and Congressman insist on telling us that she provoked her own death by running over Jon Ross, an ICE agent. Even though she did not. Congressman Randy Fine, a shocking little shit from Florida, went so far as to say that anyone who obstructs law enforcement would end up “like that woman”, i.e. dead. The Department of Justice took over the investigation into the shooting, and then announced that no investigation was required and the case was closed. Instead, it is investigating Good’s widow as a possible domestic terrorist. Meanwhile, ICE agents rampage through Minneapolis, and other cities across the country, arresting citizens at random, beating up anyone who gets in their way, spraying protesters  (and sometimes, even each other in their excitement), with pepper gas and occasionally shooting people. The President talks about invoking emergency powers and perhaps postponing the Mid Term Elections, which he is destined to lose. In other news, the US has opened a bank account in Qatar  to deposit the proceeds of Venezuelan oil sales, and the Rancid Kumquat has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize medal from the actual winner, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado, even though it is not actually transferable; she did this because she hopes that, thus mollified, he will let her run her country. Which he will not. Oh, and the US is still intent on acquiring Greenland by whatever means necessary, and is back to blaming Ukraine for not progressing the peace agreement.

Here at home, the Labour Government continues to display levels of incompetence and confusion that, to use a phrase much beloved of the US President, no one had even thought possible. This week, Keir Starmer announced yet another U-turn and ditched what had previously been a proposed requirement to make ID cards compulsory. Many people were concerned about the uses to which the information on the card might be put; and given the number of malign billionaires who now control Big Tech, it is a significant objection. This latest U-turn, like its predecessors, was portrayed as the Government preferring to listen. But the fact is that this lot have performed more backflips and shimmies in one year than the newly ennobled Dame Jayne Torvill and Sir Christopher Dean managed in their decades-long ice-skating career. And when you do the splits on the ice too often, your balls freeze. This is what we have now -government  by eunuchs. They lack conviction. They lack gravitas. They  are absolutely terrible at taking the public with them. Frankly, it is embarrassing. Starmer has performed much better abroad, although he has yet to challenge the US properly – but most people care little about distant countries about which they know little. They just want to feel better. They want people to stop coming in by boats and disappearing. They want less crime and more money. Simples.

However, all may not be lost. Until recently, it was expectated that the Reform Party, with its mighty five MPs (at least it was five last time WTF looked, but the dramatis personae can never be taken for granted), would sweep the board at the next election and form the government. But for a party which trumpets itself as the alternative to the tired old Tories and Labour, Reform is coming more and more to resemble the same Tory party which wrecked the country over 14 inglorious years before it was kicked out in 2024. Indeed, it is starting to resemble some sort of retirement home for the has-beens and never-weres who have taken to defecting from the Conservatives. By definition, if Reform simply vomits up the last lot in a different coloured rosette, it is not a force for change. This week’s acquisitions are former Cabinet Ministers, the disgraced Nadhim Zahawi, who was in a frightful strop at being denied a peerage, and the truly disgusting Robert Jenrick, the man who lost the leadership race to Kemi Badenoch. Jenrick, who started off as so bland he was known as Robert Generic, decided his best chance of success was to veer further and further to the right, culminating in a series of vile racist comments and the order, when Immigration Minister, to paint out a Mickey Mouse mural in a children’s aslyum centre in case they might feel better for looking at it. Badenoch got wind of the fact that he was due to defect and got in first by sacking him, doing that teenage ‘you’re not breaking up with me, I’m breaking up with you’ thing. And so Reform has one more MP, diluting its novelty factor, and perhaps giving Labour a chance at the next election. Whichever way you look at it, it is grim.

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Our whole review of the week’s terrible togs comes from the Golden Globes Awards 2026, which was held in LA last Sunday. We start with music producer Mark Ronson (nominated for Best Song in a Film for Dream As One in Avatar: Fire and Ice), wearing YSL by Antony Vaccarello. 

He looks as if he has popped out to the shops for a pint of milk. Why is he wearing a kiddie’s kagoule? Does it pack into the front pocket? Yurgle.

 

Parker Posey (nominated for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television in The White Lotus), wearing custom Rodarte.

Say hallo, y’all, to Scarlett O’Hara with frilly tits on her wedding day. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

 

Bella Ramsay (who is in the nominated TV series The Last of Us), wearing Prada.

Bella is dressed as a gift-wrapped box. How on earth did she manage to move her arms?

 

Inga Ibsdottter Lilleaas, (nominated for Best Female Actor in Film for Sentimental Value) wearing Loewe.

Do you remember when you were young and you dressed up as a ghost by putting a sheet over your head? Well this is the couture, snot-coloured, two-headed version. WTF is concerned how the lovely Inga managed to avoid tripping over all those random pieces of fabric trailing everywhere.

Jenna Ortega (nominated for Best Female Actor for a TV series [Comedy or Musical] for Wednesday) wearing Dilara Fındıkoğlu,

Wednesday is about the daughter of the fictional Addams family, played by Jenna. This is relevant because in that dress, Jenna looks like the lovechild of Morticia and a toy soldier. Clock the Minge Fringe. It also appears that Thing has got hold of the scissors and cut out the sides.

 

Chris Perfetti (who is in the nominated TV series Abbott Elementary), wearing Christian Cowan.

Is Chris a somnambulist? Because he seems to have wandered onto the Red Carpet in his Japanese Jinbei pyjamas…….

Model and influencer Hayley Kalil, wearing Marc Bauer.

Who says that unicorns are not real? Even purple ones? Anyone planning on nuzzling up to Hayley would soon have discovered that the unicorn’s horn was very real and that it could remove their eyeball in a flash.

 

Li Jun Li (who is in the nominated TV series Sinners) wearing Giambattista Valli.

This is a romper suit with a shower curtain and a corsage.

 

Ah! Here she is…it’s JLo wearing vintage Jean Louis Scherrer. Brace yourselves……

Gazillions of groin! Imminent Minge Moment! And she seems to be standing in an inverted icecream cone. Meanwhile, please note that her foundation colour seems to match that of President Rancid Kumquat…. and of course there are arsecheeks….

Sorry, but this is just horrible, like spattered coffee grounds when you empty out the cafetière. 

 

And not to be outdone, Jennifer Lawrence (nominated for Best Female Actor in a Movie in Die My Love), wearing Givenchy. Hubert du Givenchy must be rolling in his grave.

It is unnecessarily peek-a-boo and WTF hates the Minge Garland. And the Bumcheek Bouquet.

Who knew that Eve wore a watch?

OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. There is no space for It’s Got To Go this week, but keep your suggestions coming in, and your excellent comments. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x.