Month: Nov 2020

• Bye, Den

  

  It’s customary for the US Presidential Election to be followed by a transition period, but in this context, you have to wonder whether there would be any point in it. Hard to imagine that Joe Biden will have too much interest in slicing tee-offs, spaffing investor cash, and grabbing pussy. ‘Stop the count!’ was the…

  Max Frances

  Nov 7, 2020

  Courts, Politics, Society

  Biden, Boris, Courts, Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons, Putin, Russia, Terrorism, Trump, US Elections, US President

• Fact Up

  

  It’s the one most striking paradox about 21st century democracy. The moment a politician starts to lose their grip on power, they lose their grip full-stop. Invariably, this heralds a bullish attempt to unpick the legitimacy of those who had exercised their democratic choice Of course, the very same rogues had employed fakery and charlatanic…

  Max Frances

  Nov 6, 2020

  Courts, Disruption, Politics, Society

  Brexit, Charlatans, Democracy, Keir Starmer, Parliament, Politics, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Trump, US Elections

• Publisher Be Damned

  

  Earl Spencer has struck again – 23 years after his pulpit skewering of senior royals, he’s pulled the rug out from under serial toad Martin Bashir over some roguish manoeuvring to obtain a sit-and-chat with his sister, the inveterate jizz-whisperer, Princess Diana. Why the jackoff Earl opted to bash Bashir now has not yet budged…

  Max Frances

  Nov 3, 2020

  Books, Politics, Society, Writing

  Bashir, Charlatans, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crime, Fraud, Grenfell, Journalism, Michael Jackson, NHS, Princess Diana, Scumedia, Social Media, Twitter, Virtue Signalling