Politics
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WTF Don’t Hold the Front Page Special
Hallo Readers, Thomas Mair is a white supremacist, although he is superior to no-one. He is an unemployed gardener who is obsessed with Nazis, virulently anti-semitic and he hates anyone who is not white and British. In June this year, a week before the Brexit… Continue reading
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WTF The Son in Law Also Rises Special
Hallo Readers, It is surprising that Donald Trump can sit down to discuss his new Cabinet at all. Even perched on one of those gilded chairs littering the gilded salon at Trump Towers, he must be in some discomfort, given that our… Continue reading
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WTF Trump Triumph Special
Hallo Readers, President Trump. Just roll it round your tongue. Swill it around your mouth. Does it taste like a fine burgundy? Or like a cup of cold sick? WTF is in no doubt. The 45th President of America will be… Continue reading
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WTF Brexit Ballsup Special
Hallo Readers, Do you remember all that stuff about Sovereignty and UK Parliament making UK laws and UK Courts not bowing down to Foreign Judges and unelected bureaucratic fat cats? Well, Brexiteers, be careful what you wish for. Because now you have it.… Continue reading
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WTF Trumptapegate Special
Hallo Readers, On Tuesday, post-Trumptapegate, there was a shameful interview on Radio 4’s Today programme. Sneery presenter Justin Webb asked Everyday Sexism’s Laura Bates whether men were still allowed to say they fancied women. Bates tried to explain that this… Continue reading
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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
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WTF Big Sam Special
Hallo Readers, WTF has just returned from the US where the UK’s national game, football, is referred to as “soccer”. Which is just so wrong. What the US calls “football” is basically unarmed combat where men the size of small trucks run into… Continue reading
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WTF Vaz Special
Hallo Readers, Were it not for the warm weather and the desire to discover whether Helen Titchener gets off stabbing her horrible husband in Radio 4’s The Archers (what do you mean, you don’t listen?), many Brits would presently be stringing themselves… Continue reading
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WTF VMAs Special
Hallo Readers, The NHS is sick and Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, is making it sicker. His smug expression and NHS pin prominently displayed in his lapel certainly make WTF sick. That Hunt has got through a single day of his… Continue reading
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WTF #WeareHismedia Special
Hallo Readers, Jeremy Corbyn has not had a good week. Last Saturday, London Mayor Sadiq Khan came out against him, citing a failure of leadership. Twitter, aka #wearehismedia, exploded in a frenzy. WTF is surprised that the “he” is not Capitalised, such… Continue reading