Month: Jun 2020

• Wide Awoke

  

  I was watching coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests on TV and paused to reflect on the point of protests. They don’t after all directly work, because those in power generally don’t give a flying fart about your concerns. If they did, they would typically make a boatload of progress in dealing with them.…

  Max Frances

  Jun 6, 2020

  Politics, Society

  Black Lives Matter, Business, Charlatans, Data Protection, George Floyd, Government, Politics, Protests, Racism, Society, Woke, Wokedom, Wokeness

• The New Black

  

  So, black lives matter. Well, they do this week because there’s a big old meaty bandwagon gathering pace and every bloated, comfortable, privileged hypocrite wants to hop on for the ride. If black lives mattered – as a point of social reality – then the Back Lives Matter movement would not need to exist. Make…

  Max Frances

  Jun 4, 2020

  Politics, Society

  Activism, Black Lives Matter, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Equality, Government, Liberal Elite, Police, Politics, Racism, Social Media, Twitter

• Fraudian Slip

  

  Remember when Dr Jenny Harries, the UK’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, first attended the daily Government briefings? She was drowning in an ocean of kudos. Clear, articulate, and factual with ‘a measured tone’. She was, in March, an ‘unlikely hero’. Of course, at the start of this whole mess, much was unknown, and we were…

  Max Frances

  Jun 2, 2020

  Books, BPO Contact Centres, Politics, Recruitment, Society

  BPO, Charlatans, Contact Centre, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Flypaper for Freaks, Fraud, Freaking Hired!, Government, Interview, Jenny Harries, Media, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Recruitment