Brexit
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WTF Dead Cat Bounce Special
Hallo Readers Boris Johnson is saved for the nation! Of course he is – for now. Not overwhelmingly, but in the sneaky, scraping-through, abject, shambling sort of way that he gets through life – not gracious, not heroic, but it works… Continue reading
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WTF Success Special
Hallo Readers Jacob Rees-Mogg popped up on the radio this week in an interview on LBC. For some people the big takeaway was his admission that he had never owned a pair of jeans or a tee shirt. Of course he… Continue reading
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WTF Opportunity Knocks Special
Hallo Readers, In a notable example of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, Boris Johnson has reshuffled his Cabinet to make it look as if he is DOING SOMETHING. As this appears to consist of moving Dud A from Job 1… Continue reading
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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 Oven-Ready Special
Hallo Readers, Sorry about yesterday’s premature publication. Gremlins (in other words, read “my ineptitude”). ANYWAY… WTF has long railed about the death of shame, but with this shitshow of a Government, shame is not a word in its lexicon. In 2019, Boris… 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 Joffrey Special
Hallo Readers, The political drama playing out in Downing Street, in Chequers and in Westminster is like a prep school, cut-price version of Game of Thrones with a dollop of Whitehall farce. It is sadly a version where, in the interests of economy, or… Continue reading
