Carrie Symonds

  • WTF Scheherazade Special

    Hallo Readers, This Government has a habit of saying no which turns out to mean yes. More specifically, it means no when it says no, but then it finds itself unable to progress with no because no comes under remorseless… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    WTF Joffrey Special
  • WTF Wedding Bells Special

    Hallo Readers, Last weekend, Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds tied the knot at Westminster Cathedral and are now officially man and (third) wife. What a triumph! They threw her Majesty’s Gutter Press off the scent by sending out… Continue reading

  • WTF Oscars Super-Special

    Hallo Readers, WTF’s friends and relations will readily affirm that she is a spendthrift and likes a label. Her house is decorated with Farrar & Ball paint and Indian silk cushions from Good Earth in Delhi. But here is the difference between WTF  on… Continue reading