Donald Trump
-
WTF Stocks Special
Hallo Readers and Happy New Year, Of course it was hardly the greatest start to 2025, with people being mown down in New Orleans and a car being blown up in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas and… Continue reading
-
WTF Politics and Fashion Special
Hallo Readers Hallo Readers and Happy New Year, In an environment where egregious falsehoods are peddled as part of the daily cut and thrust of political life, standards start to slip. But even by current political standards, or rather the… Continue reading
-
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
-
WTF Hunter Special
Hallo Readers In The Pink Panther, an infuriated Chief Inspector Dreyfus tells his bungling subordinate, Inspector Clouseau, that Clouseau had failed to prevent a major jewel heist because he had not spotted that a beggar had in fact been the lookout. Clouseau is aghast.… Continue reading
-
WTF Whoops, Sorry Special
Hallo Readers, In series 2 of the original Spitting Image, the Almighty appeared and sang ‘Whoops, Sorry, I Cocked It Up Again’, including the line ‘Why Did I let Timmy Mallet get to Number 1′?. Frankly, the Tory Party should ditch ‘Land Of Hope and Glory’ and adopt the… Continue reading
-
WTF TRUMP GANG FASHION SPECIAL
Hallo Readers, In 1980, Mrs Thatcher made a speech at the Tory Party Conference in which she declared ‘You turn if you want to – the lady’s not for turning’. This was a play on words based on Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not For Burning, but Thatcher, who… Continue reading
-
WTF George Special
Hallo Readers, Two weeks after George Floyd died, demonstrations continue across the US and across the world. His killing has turned on a universal switch. People of colour are not prepared to see what happened to Floyd, and to many others before him, keep happening. They are tired of hearing… Continue reading
-
WTF Corona Choice Special
This is dedicated to the memory of my lovely friend Barbara who died one year ago this week, and who was a great fan of this blog. She is much missed. Hallo Readers, In the great US state of Georgia, Georgians… Continue reading
-
WTF Corona Chic Special
Hallo Readers, So weeks after anyone who knew anything about anything knew that this was going to be big, and that it was going to be bad, and that the best way to avoid it was to stay indoors for the foreseeable… Continue reading