Politics

  • WTF Back of the Net Special

    Hallo Readers  Last week’s It’s Got To Go called for the World Cup 2022 to be taken away from Qatar on the grounds that (i) 500 migrant workers have died building the stadiums (ii) it is corrupt (iii) it is hot and (iv)… Continue reading

  • WTF The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle Special

    Hallo Readers, On Sunday night WTF was thinking emigration, such was her despair at UKIP’s triumph in the European Elections. At one point she tweeted her intention to move to Scotland on the basis that there were no Tories and no UKIP… Continue reading

    WTF The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle Special
  • 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 Mega-Bumper Yurgle Special

    Hallo Readers, This week saw another chapter in the saga of the ex-Cabinet Minister, his Economist Ex-Wife and one of Britain’s first black judges, all of whom were incarcerated for perverting the course of justice. Chris Huhne, a sneering, supercilious little… Continue reading

  • WTF Voz You Born in Dis Country Special?

    Hallo Readers, WTF’s paternal grandparents came to this country from Poland to escape the pogroms and took up residence in Stepney Green. They both spoke English, albeit with a heavy Polish accent. During World War 2, their street was bombed flat and so they… Continue reading

  • WTF House Of Iniquity Special

    Hallo Readers, This year there has been roly-poly Lib Dem alleged sex pest Lord Rennard with Party Leader Nick Clegg dragged kicking and screaming into holding an enquiry into his activities. There was Maria Miller who resigned last week as Secretary of State for Culture,… Continue reading

  • WTF Brantub Special

    Hallo Readers, This week’s rant is combined with a variant of It’s Got To Go, namely She Had To Go. You know when you go to the funfair and you dip into the brantub and pull out a prize? That… Continue reading

  • WTF You Haven’t Got Mail Special

    Hallo Readers, One of WTF’s favourite movie moments is in a Neil Simon movie from 1975 called The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft (click the link and go forward to 1 minute 45). Lemmon is having a… Continue reading

  • WTF Fat Special

    Hallo Readers, Before she sat down to write this week’s rant, WTF polished off a delicious supper of steak and salad, washed down with a large glass of Pinot Noir and a square or two of dark chocolate with caramel and… Continue reading

  • WTF Benn, Beer and Bingo Special

    Hallo Readers,  Last Friday, just as WTF’s tribute to Bob Crow was published, the news broke that Labour Party grandee and former Cabinet Minister Tony Benn had died peacefully aged 88. Once again, (almost) everyone spoke well of him and trotted… Continue reading