Keir Starmer

  • WTF SUMMER STINKER POLL 2026

    Hallo Readers,  And so, it is over. Not Sir Keir Starmer’s turn as Prime Minister, which came to an end on Monday morning when he popped into the Palace to tender his resignation to the King. WTF refers to the… Continue reading

  • WTF Andy-Mania Special

    Hallo Readers, So after telling us that he was going nowhere, and that he would fight any Leadership challenger who might seek to overhrow him, Keir Starmer stepped out into Downing Street on Monday morning, took to the hastily erected… Continue reading

  • WTF Burnham Special

    Hallo Readers, When WTF went to bed last night just before midnight, the pundits and psephologists on TV were telling her that the Makerfield byelection was ‘close’. When the alarm rudely awoke her at 6:45 this morning (she set it… Continue reading

  • WTF Out of the Woodwork Special

    Hallo Readers, It has all gone quiet on Prime Ministerial Putsch, the UK’s favourite TV game show – that is, at least until the new edition of Celebrity Traitors starts again. Andy Burnham is busy fighting the by-election which he… Continue reading

  • WTF Prime Ministerial Putsch Special

    Hallo Readers, Welcome to a new edition of Prime Ministerial Putsch. To be fair, everyone thought that this series, which was incredibly successful during the last Tory Government, with four new Tory Leaders between 2016 and 2022, was thought to… Continue reading

  • WTF Freedom of Speech Special

    Hallo Readers, It’s a funny thing, freedom of speech. Everyone wants their own, and that of others who say things they agree with; but many are pretty quick to demand that others be stopped from expressing views they do not like.… Continue reading

  • WTF Kockup Keir Special

    Hallo Readers,  It is never the actual thing that someone did wrong that does for them; it is the thing they did wrong in covering up the actual thing that they did wrong, or at least, deflecting the blame for what… Continue reading

  • WTF Super-Colossal Oscars Special

    Hallo Readers, It is the end of another week of the war-that-is-not-a-war, and it is now even clearer that things have gone tits up. Of course, both the US and Israel have the military capacity to bomb anywhere to smithereens… Continue reading

  • WTF Eye-Ran Special

    Hallo Readers, The US is at war with Eye-Ran. Or is is just a skirmish? Or a special operation? WTF’s view is that when you kill their leadership of another country, bomb the hell out of them, take out their… Continue reading

  • WTF More Fleas Special

    Hallo Readers, WTF has been in the US for the last 10 days on business, and, as you can imagine, she has been glued to CNN and MS Now. And of course to the BBC website and BBC Sounds. Now… Continue reading