Of course Liz Truss wants an AK-47 for a photoshoot. Of fucking course she does

From the diary of Carrie Johnson, Britain’s First Lady: 

I TOOK the call. ‘RAF Barnham here, we’ve a blonde woman says she’s foreign secretary? And she’s looking to check an AK-47 out of stores for a photoshoot?’ 

‘Is she talking in an abnormally low voice?’ I said. ‘Yeah.’ ’And doing a weird little head-tilt, and striding purposefully?’ ‘Yeah, that’s her,’ he said.

‘No idea who she is,’ I said. ‘Don’t let her stand near any military hardware looking resolute. Keep her off the premises.’ And hung up. So that’s Liz Truss fucked over for the day.

War is a serious business. It can make or break reputations. If there’s a tank, fighter jet or crate of weapons to be photographed in camo gear next to, it’s going to be my Boris not that bitch.

Going to Poland didn’t work out. Nobody noticed and he had to tell the truth, which is pretty fucking far from his comfort zone.

Putin won’t take his calls. Biden won’t take his calls. The EU won’t take his calls. Zelensky charged £350k in surface-to-air missiles to do one positive tweet about him, which makes Kylie pissing Jenner’s prices look reasonable.

The world really has changed overnight. I’ve spent the last three evenings deleting oligarch numbers from Big Dog’s phone. He barely knows how to use it, of course, which is how he ended up posting his cock to the ERG WhatsApp that time.

So I have to step in. And it’s a sobering experience. Goodbye Alisher, farewell Roman, dosvidaniya Sergei. The lights are going out all over Europe. They may not donate again in our lifetime.

Zac says they’ve all just piled into Bitcoin, on the other hand, and Britain’s the only safe superyacht harbour in Europe so we’ll soon be more Russian than ever. Which is a cheering thought after all that terrible property damage on the news.

Putin's war has really hit home to me. I have a Ukrainian cleaner

By Abigail Pennson, our reasonable, plain-speaking middle-class columnist slightly to the right of Hitler

FOR some, this war is an abstract thing, happening far from us. They add flags to social media, share crushes on President Zelensky, and go about their day. 

But for me, this war is personal. It is devastating. After the first tanks rolled across the border, I knew I would never be the same again. Because I have a Ukranian cleaner. 

Her name is Olga. She’s been with us since 2014 – through Brexit, through Covid, through the misadventures of our lockown puppy. In her I see the strength, the resolve and the fortitude that is being displayed from Kyiv to Kharkiv. 

Unafraid of authority – you should hear her when I’m a couple of months late paying! – and like her countrymen, she won’t bow to fascism. Including the fascism being imposed on us by Covid rules, which is why she worked through lockdown. 

Uninterested, by the look of her, in Western beauty standards. Unconcerned by her grey roots and missing teeth. And delightfully unwoke, to the extent that she shocks even me with her views on the Jews. 

Not once have I heard Olga spouting nonsense about non-binary gender theory or calling for people to be no-platformed. Not for her decadent Western concerns.

She doesn’t believe in human rights or democracy or ‘live and let live’. Instead she just wants to go at the crusted urine in our downstairs loo like it’s an armoured personnel carrier filled with cringing Russkie conscripts.

Women like her don’t clock off early. Women like her don’t demand inflation-based pay rises. Women like her don’t judge you for drinking a bottle of wine at noon, unlike that bitch Swedish au pair.

She may be of the West but she could not be further from the cossetted Western woman airily pronouncing on politics she knows nothing about from her kitchen table, making everything about her.

Women like her get the job done, whether it takes bleach, toxic oven cleaner or a homemade petrol bomb. Olga is why the Ukraine will win. And I stand in solidarity with her, and that cutie Zelensky, against Putin.

We don’t need to speak about it. We never have. She’s upstairs cleaning the en-suite at the moment but she knows that I respect her, and value her, and I will not stop until she, and her countrymen, are finally free.