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WTF Covid Inquiry Special
Hallo Readers, In 2021, Boris Johnson’s Government appointed former Court of Appeal Judge Lady Hallett to chair a ‘forensic and thoroughgoing’ inquiry into the UK’s response to the Covid pandemic. You may think that this would be a relatively straightforward… Continue reading
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WTF Corona Cockup Special
Hallo Readers, So how is your lockdown going? If you have a partner, are you planning on consulting a solicitor the moment the siren blows and we can all venture outdoors again? Are you fantasising about putting the kids up for adoption? Are… Continue reading
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WTF Eleven Lords and Ladies Leaping Special
Hallo Readers, This week eleven Supreme Court Justices told Boris Johnson where to put his prorogation of Parliament. The Court unanimously took the view that it had been done for an improper purpose, namely to avoid Parliamentary scrutiny, and that the prorogation was… Continue reading
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WTF Reading Special
Hallo Readers, Of all the things that enrage WTF about Brexit, which is pretty much everything, is the new era of do-it-yourselfery, where anyone with barely two brain cells to rub together can pontificate without bothering to learn more about the issues… Continue reading
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WTF Meet the Markles Special
Hallo Readers If scriptwriters, high on crack, had come to a film producer with the script of Meet The Markles, they would probably have been run of town, so improbable is the concept and so unlikely the characters. But wow, what a movie! Our heroine, Meghan,… Continue reading
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WTF Sovereignty Special
Hallo Readers, Here’s the thing. For the last 18 months the country has been at each other’s throats over Brexit. The Brexiteers think that the Remoaners are refusing to honour the outcome of a democratic vote and, worse, are out to sabotage it. The… Continue reading
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WTF No-Show Special
Hallo Readers, Our glorious leader called an election for next Thursday so we could all back her glorious vision of Brexit. We know that it is a glorious vision although we don’t know what it is because we have yet to be… Continue reading
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WTF Safe Space Special
Hallo Readers, WTF happened upon a debate on The Daily Politics on BBC 2 yesterday lunchtime. It concerned freedom of speech at universities and the seeming urge of many students’ unions to ban anyone whose opinions they do not agree… Continue reading
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WTF Squealer Special
Hallo Readers, When Ed Miliband announced that a future Labour Government would impose a cap on energy prices at the Labour Party Conference in 2013, the right wing press went berserk. You will recall the Daily Mail smearing Miliband’s father, a… Continue reading
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WTF Push The Boat Out Special
Hallo Readers, This week Sir Nicholas Winton, an astonishing 105 years old and still sharp as a tack, was honoured by the Czech Government for his work 76 years ago when he saved 669 Jewish children by arranging their safe transport out of Czechoslovakia and… Continue reading