Ukraine
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WTF Louse and Flea Special
Hallo Readers, Six more weeks of this. Six more weeks of two people you can’t stand vying with each other to replace someone else you can’t stand, with the winner being decided by 200,000 people you can’t stand and whose… Continue reading
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WTF Dead Cat Bounce Special
Hallo Readers Boris Johnson is saved for the nation! Of course he is – for now. Not overwhelmingly, but in the sneaky, scraping-through, abject, shambling sort of way that he gets through life – not gracious, not heroic, but it works… Continue reading
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WTF Scheherazade Special
Hallo Readers, This Government has a habit of saying no which turns out to mean yes. More specifically, it means no when it says no, but then it finds itself unable to progress with no because no comes under remorseless… 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 Success Special
Hallo Readers Jacob Rees-Mogg popped up on the radio this week in an interview on LBC. For some people the big takeaway was his admission that he had never owned a pair of jeans or a tee shirt. Of course he… Continue reading
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WTF Leading the World Special
Hallo Readers, This Government keeps telling us that Britain is leading the world’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is true. Britain’s response to dealing with Ukrainian refugees is leading the world in its ineptness, insistence on red tape and mendacity. Refugees are made to… Continue reading
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WTF Volodymyr Special
Hallo Readers, This week a man was recognised for his contribution to making the world a better, braver, more ethical place. Such courage! Such charisma! No, not Volodymyr Zalenskyy. We will get to him shortly. WTF speaks of village idiot and Frank… Continue reading
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WTF Worst Week Ever Special
Hallo Readers, It is an understatement to say that this has been one hell of a week, as if the world had fallen into a food mixer with the lid off, spattering disaster in every direction. Over the weekend, the… Continue reading
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WTF Drowning Street Special
Hallo Readers, Yesterday, as four of Boris Johnson’s top advisers packed their bags and made for the exit, Radio 4’s Evan Davies inadvertently referred to Drowning St, for which he immediately apologised. But was he wrong? Policy Director Munira Mirza was… Continue reading