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  • WTF Maple Leaf Special

    Hallo Readers, On the face of it, you know that something has to be seriously out of kilter when the President of the United States, purportedly the Leader of the Western World, makes nice with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong… Continue reading

  • WTF Yenems ist Besser Special

    Hallo Readers,  WTF’s father had an excellent turn of phrase. One of his favourite sayings was “yenems ist besser“. Roughly translated from the Yiddish, it means that spending other people’s money is much better than having to spend your own. And… Continue reading

  • WTF Met Gala Super-Enormous Special

    Hallo Readers,  WTF went to bed last night without writing the rant in order to see where the land lay  in the local council elections in England when she woke up; but actually, she could have written it last night… Continue reading

  • WTF Freedom of Speech Special

    Hallo Readers, It’s a funny thing, freedom of speech. Everyone wants their own, and that of others who say things they agree with; but many are pretty quick to demand that others be stopped from expressing views they do not like.… Continue reading

  • WTF Hegseth Special

    Hallo Readers, When Richard the Lionheart took part in the Third Crusade, it is probable that he would have been muddy, dirty and dishevelled; in short, not at his most dapper and photogenic. Not of course that they had cameras… Continue reading

  • WTF Eye-Ran Special

    Hallo Readers, The US is at war with Eye-Ran. Or is is just a skirmish? Or a special operation? WTF’s view is that when you kill their leadership of another country, bomb the hell out of them, take out their… Continue reading

  • WTF Font Special

    Hallo Readers, In Sean O’Casey’s wonderful Juno and the Paycock, Captain Boyle remarks ‘the world is in a terrible state o’chassis’. That was written in 1924, set in a traumatised post-independence Dublin. Captain Boyle’s analysis is no less accurate one… Continue reading

  • WTF Casey Special

    Hello Readers,   Keir Starmer’s first instinct was to refuse a National Inquiry into child sex abuse by Pakistani grooming gangs, and he was right. We know what happened. We know from the previous inquiries, including the one published by… Continue reading

  • WTF Report Special

    Hallo Readers, So now we have the role of dishonour. The Grenfell inquiry named and shamed the guilty parties and it did not mince its words. The three companies responsible for the defective cladding and insulation products, Arconic, Celotex and… Continue reading

  • WTF VP Special

    Hallo readers,  The American Presidential election is getting nearer. Trump and Biden have even agreed the dates for them to debate with the first one as early as June. Biden accepted Trump’s challenge to debate him “Anytime anywhere” in a… Continue reading