Donald Trump
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WTF Inauguration Special
Hallo Readers, Last month, WTF ranted about the new contempt for facts, learning and experience in a blog entitled WTF Wrong is the New Right Special which made Cassandra look cheery, warning that it boded ill for 2017. Trump’s election has not turned out to be as bad as… Continue reading
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WTF All Things Golden Special
Hallo Readers, Rather like Cameron and Piggate, the truth of the lurid allegations concerning President-Elect Trump is almost irrelevant. Schadenfreude is a basic human right and since every other human right is currently under attack, we have to cling on to those we… Continue reading
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WTF The Son in Law Also Rises Special
Hallo Readers, It is surprising that Donald Trump can sit down to discuss his new Cabinet at all. Even perched on one of those gilded chairs littering the gilded salon at Trump Towers, he must be in some discomfort, given that our… Continue reading
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WTF Trump Triumph Special
Hallo Readers, President Trump. Just roll it round your tongue. Swill it around your mouth. Does it taste like a fine burgundy? Or like a cup of cold sick? WTF is in no doubt. The 45th President of America will be… Continue reading
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WTF Life On Mars Special
Hallo Readers, A goes out with his mate B in the small Welsh town where he was born. A was a footballer playing for a big club, B a footballer playing for a minor club. Much alcohol is taken. B picks up a very drunk girl… Continue reading
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WTF Trumptapegate Special
Hallo Readers, On Tuesday, post-Trumptapegate, there was a shameful interview on Radio 4’s Today programme. Sneery presenter Justin Webb asked Everyday Sexism’s Laura Bates whether men were still allowed to say they fancied women. Bates tried to explain that this… Continue reading
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WTF The Thing That Ate Washington Special
Hallo Readers, A few weeks ago, WTF speculated on whether Donald Trump’s candidacy was actually an extended and elaborate hoax on the American people. It is clear that it is much, much worse than that. A hoax can be funny but… Continue reading
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WTF Presidential Special
Hallo Readers, This blog is dedicated to my beloved friend Barbara, who died suddenly a year ago and is very much missed. WTF kept hoping that Donald Trump’s presidential bid was a giant hoax, like Orson Welles’ War of the… Continue reading
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WTF Sad Special
Hallo Readers, This has been a horrible, awful week of murder, mayhem and hatred, a week that tests your faith in people and decency and humanity to the utmost. On Sunday, 49 people were shot dead in a gay club… Continue reading