Oscars
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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
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WTF Mega-Oscars Special
Hallo Readers, It is bad enough when people say something bad. It is much, much worse when they, or other people on their behalf, try to explain away what they meant when you know perfectly well what they meant because you are a… Continue reading
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WTF Lineker and Oscars Special
Hallo Readers, As a player, Gary Lineker was famous for a number of things, including never getting booked during his whole career. WTF suspects that he never scored an own goal either, which is more than you can say for the waste-basket of Deplorables who lined… Continue reading
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WTF Super-Enormous Oscars Special
Hallo Readers, Forty years ago, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Acknowledging the failure to prevent this debacle, Lord Carrington, the Foreign Secretary, promptly resigned and John Nott, the Defence Secretary, proffered his resignation but Mrs Thatcher refused to accept it. The days when people behaved with honour have long… Continue reading
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WTF Send Her Back Special
Hallo Readers, In Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit, Mark Tapley, Martin’s manservant, does his best to remain relentlessly cheerful despite the many vicissitudes which meet man and master. One suspects that even Mark would currently struggle to maintain his equilibrium. War still… Continue reading
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WTF Oscars Super-Special
Hallo Readers, WTF’s friends and relations will readily affirm that she is a spendthrift and likes a label. Her house is decorated with Farrar & Ball paint and Indian silk cushions from Good Earth in Delhi. But here is the difference between WTF on… Continue reading
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WTF Oscars Red Carpet Special
Hallo Readers, The President of the United States is a liar (8,500 proven lies since taking office two years ago), a racist, a shyster and also happened to be the colour of a nuclear tangerine, but such is the new normal that most people no… Continue reading
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WTF World Cup Special
Hallo Readers, To everyone’s amazement, Engerland made it through a penalty shootout to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup, and will face Sweden tomorrow afternoon. We are all very excited, apart, that is, from the Scots, the Irish and the Welsh, nearly… Continue reading
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WTF Stormy Special
Hallo Readers, Ever since it emerged that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, forked out $130,000 from his own pocket to silence a porn actress by the name of Stormy Daniels, who claims to have the goods on his client, WTF… Continue reading