Month: Dec 2023

• Twearps

  

  Hold my Prosecco while I have a whinge. For the second year in a row, the public has voted a woman footballer the ‘Sports Personality of the Year’. Their game, their rules. Good luck to all the women making money from football. I say the same about proper players making zillions from Premier League merchandising.…

  Max Frances

  Dec 22, 2023

  Sport, Television

  BBC, Football, Lesbian, Lionesses, Mary Earps, Megan Rapinoe, Millionaire, Premier League, Pride, Reality, Ronnie O’Sullivan, snooker, SPOTY, Television, Terrorism, TV, Woke, Wokeness, Women

• Remington Steal

  

  I was thinking this week about King Camp Gillette, erstwhile razor mogul. He’s often credited with inventing – and certainly warmly embracing – the business model that sees organisations ‘give away’ a product and then continually charge for essential accessories that are locked into the giveaway. In his case, it was a razor, but the…

  Max Frances

  Dec 16, 2023

  Business, Retail

  Amazon, Business, Capitalism, Christmas, Companies, Gillette, Online, Organization, Profit, Remington, Retail, Shaving