Month: Dec 2020

• Abstained Character

  

  Now, I do get the concept of abstention. It is a signal to express disdain for both options of a Hobson’s choice. In other contexts, it is a luxury; a risk-free gesture when a vote one way or another changes nothing. It is used as a ploy to avoid confrontation with opposing, warring factions, but…

  Max Frances

  Dec 4, 2020

  Politics, Society

  Abstaining, Abstention, Brexit, Charlatans, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, General Election, Government, Keir Starmer, Labour, Spying, Tiers, Twitter, Windrush

• Rolling Over

  

  Hats off to the Chancellor of the checkered party for his rescue planning – that £280 billion package should keep us going until about next Wednesday with a Government that has, unabashed, gone full crony. Even Albanian mobsters are growing concerned that London is reflecting badly on them. But whatever news conference claptrap is trotted…

  Max Frances

  Dec 1, 2020

  Business, Politics, Society

  Alcohol, Boris, Charlatans, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Economy, Government, Lockdown, NHS, Pubs, Strategy, Tiers, Vaccine