Jacob Rees-Mogg
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WTF Abject Special
Hallo Readers, The Independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards found that Owen Paterson MP had lobbied Ministers a dozen times while receiving fistfuls of wonga from two companies whose interests he was pursuing. She referred her adjudication to the Committee for Standards… Continue reading
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WTF Weirdos and Misfits Special
Hallo Readers, We want to hire an unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds to work in Downing Street … The categories are roughly: data scientists and software developers; economists; policy experts; project managers; communication experts; junior researchers one… Continue reading
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WTF Doomsday Special
Hallo Readers, So this is it. Friday 31 January 2020 is the day that Britain waves bye-bye to the EU. At 11 pm tonight, Big Ben will not bong (the clock is under renovation), but Brexiteers various will pop open the British sparkling… Continue reading
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WTF Election Special
Hallo Readers, By the time you peruse this blog over your post-election breakfast, WTF will either have collapsed in a drunken stupor or have strung herself up by her pantyhose. In a further demonstration that the bigger the shyster, the bigger… Continue reading
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WTF Rees-Mogg Special
Hallo Readers, Old Etonian and Oxonian Jacob Rees-Mogg, a character P G Wodehouse would have rejected as too outlandish for his Jeeves and Wooster books, is a multi-millionaire (some inherited, some acquired through marriage, and the rest made himself through financial trading).… Continue reading
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WTF Right Royal Rumble Special
Hallo Readers, These are tough times to be Royal. Her Majesty the Queen is ninety-three years old. Her knees probably hurt (all that horse-riding) and she must have the odd aches and pains, like you do when you are a nonagenarian. Her… Continue reading
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WTF Summer Stinker Poll 2019
Hallo Readers, Usually the annual WTF Summer Stinker Poll is a politics free zone, but it would be impossible to publish anything this Friday without mentioning one of the most ridiculous weeks in British history. We all knew it was coming, but it… Continue reading
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WTF Brits and Bobs Special
Hallo Readers, The British Body Politic, which had been ailing for some time, has finally succumbed to massive organ failure and is currently on life support, hooked up to those machines that go beep, beep, beep, like you see… Continue reading