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Jacob Rees-Mogg

  • WTF Truss Special

    Hallo Readers Boris Johnson still hangs on while the Nation, split equally between outrage and boredom, waits for the publication of the Sue Gray report on Downing Street shenanigans. Which gives us the opportunity to consider one of his main… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • WTF Mega-Bumper-Oscars-Nonsense Special

    Hallo Readers, It may be Valentine’s Day today, but in Westminster there is precious little love around for Judges. Why? Because it appears that they are interfering with the right of politicians and civil servants to cock up, dissemble, and abuse their powers. The impertinence! We… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • WTF Bears Defecate in Areas Full Of Trees Special

    Hallo Readers, This week brought news so shocking that Britain will never be the same again. Counselling is being offered to those affected. Black arm bands are being worn.  It turns out that our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, lied to none other than… Continue reading

  • 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