Fashion Awards

  • 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 Mote in your Eye Special

    Hallo Readers, In Matthew 7, verses 3-5, Jesus said unto whomsoever he said it unto, ‘Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of… Continue reading

  • WTF Negotiations Special

    Hallo Readers, Yesterday was Thanksgiving, which was said to be the deadline for Ukraine to accept a 28-point plan supposedly drawn up by the State Department and incorporating suggestions and concessions from both Ukraine and Russia with a view to securing… Continue reading

  • WTF This Week Special

    Hallo Readers, Recently, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Bit by bit, the basic norms which we thought governed public life in the civilised democracies we inhabit have become watered down to the point where they… Continue reading

  • WTF BBC Special

    Hallo Readers, All week, the BBC has had the loveliest time talking about itself – its own favourite subject. And there is always a lot to talk about. It has ever had an unrivalled ability to pick the wrong people, employing… Continue reading

  • WTF Peace Deal Special

     Hallo Readers, This is WTF’s last blog for three weeks because she is heading out to India. What a week it has been. We may be about to see peace between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli cabinet has just voted… Continue reading

  • WTF Terror Special

    Hallo Readers, This week Lucy Connolly was released on licence after serving 40% of her 31-month sentence. Connolly had taken to Twitter in July 2024 while feral yobs were looting and rioting following the murder of three little girls in… Continue reading

  • WTF Flying Visit Special

    Hallo Readers, Last week, Scotland had the dubious pleasure of hosting President 47, who flew over at US taxpayers’ expense on Air Force 1 to play golf  at – and publicise – his Scottish golf clubs, and to open a new… Continue reading

  • WTF Ramsay Bolton Special

    Hallo Readers, Spoiler alert! In Game of Thrones, Ramsay Bolton, one of the great screen villains, is thrown to his own pack of slavering dogs, which chomp happily upon him well past his last dying scream. Thus Bolton, who had… Continue reading

  • WTF Violent Delights Special

    Hallo Readers, We all knew it would come to this. A love so passionate, so intense, could only burn itself out and descend into bitterness and vituperation. From barely knowing each other, they came together last autumn, locked eyes and… Continue reading