Boris Johnson
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WTF Drowning Street Special
Hallo Readers, Yesterday, as four of Boris Johnson’s top advisers packed their bags and made for the exit, Radio 4’s Evan Davies inadvertently referred to Drowning St, for which he immediately apologised. But was he wrong? Policy Director Munira Mirza was… Continue reading
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WTF Truss Special
Hallo Readers Boris Johnson still hangs on while the Nation, split equally between outrage and boredom, waits for the publication of the Sue Gray report on Downing Street shenanigans. Which gives us the opportunity to consider one of his main… Continue reading
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WTF Turn on a Sixpence Special
Hallo Readers, Welcome back to He said WHAT????!!!!, Britain’s most popular reality show. The aim of the game is for contestants to provide ever more improbable explanations as they try and wriggle out of situations when they appear to be bang to rights. The winner of the previous… Continue reading
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WTF Without A Paddle Special
Hallo Readers, Today, our thoughts and prayers are with the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has selflessly decided to quarantine himself for a week or so because one of his close family members has tested positive for Covid. As it happens,… Continue reading
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WTF Party-Party Special
Hallo Readers, Inside no 10 Downing Street, it is about as joyful as National Enema Week. For the last ten days, we have been assured that there had been no Christmas party for the PM’s staff on 18 December 2020, when… Continue reading
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WTF Fashion Special
Hallo Readers, It is an ill-wind that blows nobody any good and it appears that the pandemic has blown a veritable gale of opportunity in the direction of mates of prominent Tories. Like the chappie who advised Liz Truss when… Continue reading
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WTF Snouts in the Trough Special
Hallo Readers, Last week we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of Owen Paterson MP, who, unable to scrape by on an MP’s salary of £81,932 a year plus all the expenses you can think of, trousered another £100,000 a year… Continue reading
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WTF Abject Special
Hallo Readers, The Independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards found that Owen Paterson MP had lobbied Ministers a dozen times while receiving fistfuls of wonga from two companies whose interests he was pursuing. She referred her adjudication to the Committee for Standards… Continue reading
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WTF Karaoke Special
Hallo Readers, Nothing summed up the callousness, selfishness and insensitivity of this week’s Conservative party conference in Manchester more than the sight of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Therese Coffey, belting out Time of my Life from the movie Dirty… Continue reading
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WTF Not So Special Relationship Special
Hallo Readers, It is clear that Joe Biden has little time for Boris Johnson. Not only is Johnson a blowhard and a buffoon, whom he once described as a clone of Donald Trump, but in 2008, Johnson was profoundly offensive about Barack Obama, sneering that… Continue reading