Month: Nov 2023

• Scobie Don’t!

  

  Hallelujah! T’is the season of gaslighting! Spunk sponge Omid Scobie has been probing the shallow waters of incredulity in suggesting that a mistranslation of his book led to the unmasking of the ‘royal racist’. Around the globe, translators are flummoxed because they’ve spent a lifetime translating verbs, nouns, adjectives, and other units of language that…

  Max Frances

  Nov 28, 2023

  Politics, Society

  Books, Brexit, Crime, EU, Far Right, Gaslighting, Ireland, Italy, Meghan Markle, Omid Scobie, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Riots, Terrorism, The Royal Family, Verhofstadt, Von der Leyen

• Shit Hoyle

  

  How many of us are looking forward to a holiday in Stockton-on-Tees? None. Because it’s a shithole. Let’s take a moment to celebrate all the national journalists who have flocked to buy properties in Stockton. Unfortunately, there are none. Because it’s a shithole. Even the inhabitants of Stockton think it’s a shithole – once they’ve…

  Max Frances

  Nov 24, 2023

  Politics, Society

  Cleverly, Conservatives, Government, Labour, Parliament, Poverty, Society, Stockton, Tories, Tory

• Demon Strays

  

  Another day, another protest. Is this a functioning country or a students’ union? Sometimes, it’s hard to tell. Now, I don’t have any allegience in respect of this Israel-Hamas dust-up. It’s all tragic, but I don’t really give a toss. And let’s be honest, who really does? But what is this pro-Palestinian protest going to…

  Max Frances

  Nov 11, 2023

  Law, Society, War

  Activism, antisemitism, Braverman, Cenotaph, Censorship, DefundThePolice, Disruption, Fake Woke, Fascism, Hamas, Israel, Met Police, Netanyahu, Palestine, Police, Poppy Day, Protests, Remembrance, Remembrance Sunday, Slacktivism, Terrorism, Virtue Signalling, Woke, Wokedom, Wokeness