Donald Trump
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WTF Dumb and Dumber Special
Hallo Readers, WTF has not commented much on Brexit recently, partly because she has been consumed more than ever with events across the Atlantic but also because it is such a car crash. But we are obviously going to do it… Continue reading
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WTF Reservoir Dogs Special
Hallo Readers, A journalist and political activist went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a fortnight ago, and he never came out. Or if he did, he came out in an assortment of carrier bags. Jamal Khashoggi died at the hands of… Continue reading
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WTF Supreme Special
Hallo Readers, The whole process of appointing the slimy, evasive, God-bothering, Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court has been a complete farce. He may deny it, but everyone knows that he has been chosen to roll back Roe v Wade, the… Continue reading
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WTF English Irony Special
Hallo Readers, In 2013, Jeremy Corbyn, then a back bencher with no thought of higher office, made a speech in support of the representative of the Palestinian Authority whose words had been recorded at an earlier meeting by ‘the thankfully silent… Continue reading
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WTF Dog Whistle Special
Hallo Readers, The former British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has fallen out of the obligations, not that he observed them much, of life in the Cabinet, and bigly back into the schmaltz of citizenship, starting with a fat paycheque from The… Continue reading
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WTF Hello and Goodbye Special
Hallo Readers, Apparently Boris Johnson could not stomach Mrs May’s Brexit deal that he had apparently agreed to last Friday, saying it would be like trying to polish a turd. And? We had a turd as Foreign Secretary for two years. Johnson… Continue reading
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WTF World Cup Special
Hallo Readers, To everyone’s amazement, Engerland made it through a penalty shootout to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup, and will face Sweden tomorrow afternoon. We are all very excited, apart, that is, from the Scots, the Irish and the Welsh, nearly… Continue reading
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WTF Civility Special
Hallo Readers, Since the twin disasters of Brexit and Trump’s election, political discourse has sunk to depths previously accessible only to cavers, deep sea divers and submarines. Anything goes. Nothing is too rude or too unpleasant. Twitter has become a home for those… Continue reading
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WTF Kiddies Special
Hallo Readers, Up until Wednesday evening, the USA was separating children from their would-be migrant parents in compliance with what we were assured was the law of the land. Attorney-General Jeff Sessions, the malignant hobgoblin, assured us that not only is it… Continue reading