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  • WTF RIP Dapper Special

    Hallo Readers,  WTF had never heard of Dapper Laughs, the cockney geezer alter ego of “comedian” Daniel O’Reilly until she received a tweet last Monday from WTF aficionado Annette Lewis demanding that Dapper must feature in It’s Got to Go. On investigation, it emerged… Continue reading

  • WTF Pankhurst Special

    Hallo Readers, 15 July is Emmeline Pankhurst Day, marking the birth in 1858 of Britain’s most notable suffragette, the founder of the Women’s Political and Social Union in 1903 whose motto was “deeds not words”. Over the years their deeds repeatedly landed Mrs Pankhurst and… Continue reading

  • WTF BET Awards Special

    Hallo Readers No sooner had the country digested more revolting revelations about Jimmy Savile, including more stuff about necrophilia than you never needed to know, than Rolf Harris was convicted of  11 counts of sexual assault, including on children as young as 7.… Continue reading

  • WTF Not-So-Sorry Special

    Hallo Readers,  Last week, WTF featured Premier League Chief Richard Scudamore in It’s Got To Go but the story still has legs. To recap, Scudamore’s temporary PA had shopped him to the press by disclosing a series of emails between him and his solicitor friend Nick… Continue reading

  • WTF Calm Down Dear Special

    Hallo Readers, Baroness Trumpington is a feisty old thing. She looks like one of those women in Midsomer Murders entertaining D.I. Barnaby and his sidekick to tea whilst other villagers are murdered in their droves by one of the many homicidal maniacs resident in… Continue reading

  • WTF Flashing the Flesh Special

    Hallo Readers, WTF is fortunate to have a close friend who lives in Essaouira on the coast of Morocco and she has just spent a blissful few days there.  Essaouira is a tranquil if windy place, an old walled town… Continue reading

  • WTF F-Word (No, Not That one) Special

    Hallo Readers, There was a debate on Newsnight on Tuesday (catch it on i-Player) in which actress Natascha McElhone and academic Mary Beard debated feminism with journalist Angela Epstein. Natascha pointed out that misogyny is now more insidious than ever, particularly… Continue reading

  • WTF Twittertwat Special

    Hallo Readers,  This is what WTF has learned from this week’s Twitter uproar. First, we should acknowledge that the Twittertwats target, abuse and threaten men and women of all races, religions, beliefs and practices. Second, there are some men out there… Continue reading

  • Trolling the Trolls Special

    Hallo Readers, Last weekend WTF turned into Charles Bronson and started trolling the trolls.  Like a number of similarly appalled citizens, male and female, she was enraged by the vicious nastiness of the Twitter troll  attacks on Marion Bartoli who (in what… Continue reading