sexism
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WTF Carry On Special
Hallo Readers, WTF is demob happy – she is off on holiday to France (rioters permitting) and then to Cornwall and so you are being given time off for good behaviour. She will be back on 11 August, although you lot… Continue reading
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WTF Freddie Filth MP Special
Hallo Readers, Over the years the esteem in which the public holds Members of Parliament has become less and less reverential. Heaven knows, there have been many low points recently including Wallpapergate and Partygate. But this week we reached the nadir… 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 Cuomosexual Special
Hallo Readers, WTF has always had a penchant for clever, arrogant, witty and charismatic men who look like they know stuff. Even when she suspects that they are not actually very nice, she will usually suppress the thought where there are enough flashes of… Continue reading
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WTF Emperor’s New Clothes Special
Hallo Readers You would think that being a veteran and having fought in I-raq would be the quintessence of the flag-waving, Trump-loving, law-and-order-insisting MAGATs’ beliefs, not to mention donning the policeman’s uniform to hold the line against the unruly mob. But Readers, you would be so wrong, as wrong as wrong… Continue reading
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WTF Megxit Special
Hallo Readers, This week, Britain was horrified to learn that an American TV star had beguiled a boyish Old Etonian into abandoning his obligations towards an elderly Head of State. But that is enough about Donald Trump and his attempt to lure Boris Johnson into turning on… Continue reading
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WTF Mugabe Fall from Grace Special
Hallo Readers, In 1980 Robert Mugabe, a clever, educated, erudite, passionate, man who had spent much of his life either in prison or in exile, was elected as Zimbabwe’s first black Prime Minister. The country’s fertile soil then produced an abundance of maize, cotton, soybeans, wheat,… Continue reading
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WTF Sweet Home Alabama Special
Hallo Readers, Here are some good things about Alabama. Nat King Cole. Emmy Lou Harris. Coretta Scott King. Harper Lee. Joe Louis. Jesse Owens. Rosa Parks. Hank Williams. And here are some bad things about Alabama. Jeff “I can’t recall” Sessions. Roy… Continue reading
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WTF Spreadsheet of Shame Special
Hallo Readers, Last week, we had allegations against Labour MP Javed O’Mara who was suspended for all manner of discriminatory comments and yobbery. This week it got much, much worse. Bex Bailey, a respected Labour activist, complained that she had been raped… Continue reading