Billy Porter
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WTF SUMMER STINKER POLL 2021
Hallo Readers It’s here! The coveted title of the WTF Summer Stinker Poll 2021 is up for grabs with you, Readers, voting for the winner and, if you like, adding unpleasant comments to go with your votes. We will get back… Continue reading
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WTF Ahoy There Special
Hallo Readers For a man with an ego as large as his, it is no surprise that Boris Johnson loves a vanity project. After all, whose vanity is projected more on the long- suffering British public than Johnson’s? Londoners have already had to… Continue reading
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WTF Brits and Pieces Special
Hallo Readers, Some bad things have been done in the name of tourism. (Remember tourism?) Every year save f0r 2020, sunny seaside spots in Spain, Cyprus and Greece are overrun with visitors who get horribly drunk, copulate on car bonnets and are rowdy, disrespectful and unmanageable. Stag… Continue reading
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WTF Cancel Culture Special
Hallo Readers, Voltaire famously said ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ Except that it was not actually Voltaire who said it but the writer Beatrice Evelyn Hall, who published a book about… Continue reading
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WTF SUMMER STINKER POLL 2020
Hallo Readers, Before we turn to the main business of the week, the Summer Stinker Poll, we must pause to consider the matter of why it (rightly) unacceptable to denigrate Muslims, or people of colour, or the disabled, but it is acceptable to denigrate Jews. Not… Continue reading
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WTF Lady Bracknell Special
Hallo Readers, As Lady Bracknell might have remarked, ‘to have one lawyer involved in major dodginess may be regarded as a misfortune. To have two looks like carelessness’. In which case, it seems that Donald J Trump has been monumentally careless. His former personal… Continue reading
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WTF Summer Stinker Poll 2019
Hallo Readers, Usually the annual WTF Summer Stinker Poll is a politics free zone, but it would be impossible to publish anything this Friday without mentioning one of the most ridiculous weeks in British history. We all knew it was coming, but it… Continue reading
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WTF Royal Baby Special
Hallo Readers, What can be more British than the birth of a Royal Baby? The whole thing is steeped in years of tradition. For example, hours after pushing out something the size of a football, the Royal Mother is supposed to appear… Continue reading
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WTF Sidney Carton Special
Hallo Readers You remember Sidney Carton. He is the hero of A Tale of Two Cities, set at the time of the French revolution. He is deeply in love with Lucie, but she is in love with, and was loved by, French émigré… Continue reading
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WTF Oscars Red Carpet Special
Hallo Readers, The President of the United States is a liar (8,500 proven lies since taking office two years ago), a racist, a shyster and also happened to be the colour of a nuclear tangerine, but such is the new normal that most people no… Continue reading