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  • The Death of Shame, Volume 99

    Hallo Readers, Those of you who are kind enough to read this blog regularly will know that WTF is obsessed with the death of shame in public life. This week brought two more stark examples to recoil from. First, Fiona Onasanya MP… Continue reading

  • WTF Shutdown Special

    Hallo Readers, Normally employment works like this. The employee does stuff at the employer’s request. Then at whatever period is stipulated in the contract, the employer pays the employee for the stuff he or she has done. But in America, if the Government shuts down because… Continue reading

  • WTF Civility Special

     Hallo Readers, Since the twin disasters of Brexit and Trump’s election, political discourse has sunk to depths previously accessible only to cavers, deep sea divers and submarines. Anything goes. Nothing is too rude or too unpleasant. Twitter has become a home for those… Continue reading

  • WTF Don’t #FreeTommy Special

    Hallo Readers, There have been some major miscarriages of justice – the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, Stefan Kiszko. The conviction and incarceration of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, is not one of them. Yet Robinson’s latest spell inside has prompted an international outcry.… Continue reading

  • WTF Theresa May Special

    Hallo Readers,  As Claudius remarked in Hamlet, “Gertrude, Gertrude, When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions”. Claudius must have had Theresa May in mind, although in her case, sorrows have come in armies the size of Russia’s and China’s combined.… Continue reading

  • WTF Fawning Special

    Hallo Readers, The last General Election was fought, or certainly initiated, on the basis that President Maydogan should not be opposed because it would be treasonable to do so. The Mail’s headline was “Crush The Saboteurs” whilst The Sun trumpeted “Blue Murder!” Even though downgraded to… Continue reading

  • WTF Inauguration Special

    Hallo Readers, Last month, WTF ranted about the new contempt for facts, learning and experience in a blog entitled WTF Wrong is the New Right Special which made Cassandra look cheery, warning that it boded ill for 2017. Trump’s election has not turned out to be as bad as… Continue reading

  • WTF Punch-Up Special

    Hallo Readers,  Here is Steven Woolfe MEP, the putative Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, having a lie-down on a walkway at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Actually he was not having a lie-down. He was spark out, having collapsed… Continue reading

  • WTF I Have a Dream Special

     Hallo Readers, HERE IS ONE OF THOSE WARNINGS. DURING THE OPENING RANT! THERE IS A PICTURE OF WOMAN NAKED SAVE FOR STRATEGICALLY PLACED BLACKOUT STRIPS. AND NOT JUST ANY WOMAN. KIM KARDASHIAN!!! SO YOU ARE WARNED. IF YOU DO NOT… Continue reading

  • WTF Minotaur Special

    Hallo Readers, Google has just paid the Revenue £130m in corporation tax, a sum purportedly covering the past decade. On an estimated profit of £7.2bn for the same period. Chancellor Osborne was quick to claim credit for “a major success of our tax policy”.… Continue reading