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  • WTF Silliness Special

    Hallo Readers, So how excited are you about the coronation on Saturday? Are you busily baking your coronation quiche? (Query – if it is vegetarian, why has it got bloody lard in it? What is the point of being King… Continue reading

  • WTF Temper Tantrum Special

    Hallo Readers, In the unlikely event that you needed proof of America having gone to hell in a handcart, look no further than Nashville, Tennessee. Yesterday the State’s House of Representatives voted to expel three members of Congress. And I… Continue reading

  • WTF Demob Happy Special

    Hallo Readers, This is the last blog until 23 December, as WTF is off abroad to escape this shitshow of a Government before she goes completely off her head. So you will have to entertain yourself until then or you can go… Continue reading

  • WTF Penny Dreadful Special

    Hallo Readers, Joni Mitchell once sang ‘don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’. You have to say that she was right on the nail. Although Boris Johnson has not actually gone,… Continue reading

  • WTF The Only Way is Ethics Special

    Hallo Readers, The late and much lamented Peter Cook and Dudley Moore did a deeply disgusting sketch about the worst job in the world. WTF is not going to repeat the details, so you will just have to go and… Continue reading

  • WTF Super-Enormous Oscars Special

    Hallo Readers, Forty years ago, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Acknowledging the failure to prevent this debacle, Lord Carrington, the Foreign Secretary, promptly resigned and John Nott, the Defence Secretary, proffered his resignation but Mrs Thatcher refused to accept it. The days when people behaved with honour have long… Continue reading

  • 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

  • WTF Leading the World Special

    Hallo Readers, This Government keeps telling us that Britain is leading the world’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is true.  Britain’s response to dealing with Ukrainian refugees is leading the world in its ineptness, insistence on red tape and mendacity. Refugees are made to… Continue reading

  • WTF Worst Week Ever Special

    Hallo Readers, It is an understatement to say that this has been one hell of a week, as if the world had fallen into a food mixer with the lid off, spattering disaster in every direction. Over the weekend, the… Continue reading

  • 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