Hallo Readers, Malala Yousafzai is 14 years old and lives in a town called Mingora in the Swat district of Pakistan. In about 2009 Malala started blogging for the BBC about life under the local Taliban and her desire that… Continue reading

Hallo readers, WTF has been reflecting on the topic of plebs, chavs and celebrity. Here’s the thing. After several years of pretending to be one of the plebs, Call-Me-Dave, our old Etonian Prime Minister, realised that the public wasn’t buying  it.… Continue reading

Hallo readers, Unlike Andrew Mitchell, WTF is not afraid to say sorry. Let me start with an apology for confusing loyal subscribers by first publishing on Tuesday and making you think it was Friday and then unpublishing so it wasn’t even… Continue reading

Hallo Readers, There is a splendid song performed by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Bing Crosby  called “You’ve either got or you haven’t got style” (it could be WTF’s theme tune) containing the lyric “you’ve either got or you haven’t… Continue reading

Hallo readers, This week the Duke of Cambridge and Her Holiness the Duchess of Cambridge were visiting the more obscure parts of the British Commonwealth and hob-nobbing away with the locals, pretending to be interested in a thousand things to do with… Continue reading

Hallo readers, Earlier this week, it all went bonkers over here. We’re knee-deep in the financial doo-doo but we Brits were proud. We staged the Olympics and the Paralympics, both of which were a triumph (if you don’t count Coldplay… Continue reading

Hallo readers, It has been an exhilarating week with the Paralympics playing to packed houses in warm sunshine.  It all got even better on Monday night when the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was booed as he was about to… Continue reading

Hallo readers, Last week, WTF told you that the weather forecast for the Bank Holiday was bad, and it turned out to be worse. But there was entertainment galore all about, most notably with the shenannigans over the Essex Lion.  Mr… Continue reading

Hallo readers, It is almost September and the leaves are starting to turn russet. Summer is drawing to a close.  The football season has started (North Americans – read, soccer). WTF is still shattered by the news that former Arsenal… Continue reading

Hallo readers, It’s all over! The athletes have gone home (except the ones who actually live here) and the post-Olympic hangover has begun. WTF arrived home from holiday in time to see the awesome Mo Farrah win his second gold medal… Continue reading