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  • McLovin It

    McLovin It

    In Paraguay, former Brazilian football megastar Ronaldinho has been arrested for entering the country on fake documents. Yes, this is one of a handful of the most recognisable people on the planet, and the said document was in his own real name. It’s stratospherically wacko. In fact, this was no border incident per se, and…

    Max Frances

    Mar 8, 2020
    Books, Politics, Society, Writing
    Books, Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Football, Migrant Crisis, NHS, Paraguay, Police, Politics, Ronaldinho, Society
  • 7 Months…and Counting…

    7 Months…and Counting…

    So, the impact of the coronavirus has now peaked at a hitherto unimaginable level: they’ve postponed the release of the new Bond movie by 7 months. Now it has got serious. An ironic travesty, considering that Bond – co-piloting a Moonraker shuttle – once laser-zapped and obliterated globes containing deadly nerve gas from space before…

    Max Frances

    Mar 6, 2020
    Films, Society
    007, Casino Royale, China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Diversity, Film, Jackie Chan, James Bond, No Time to Die, Paul McCartney, Spectre
  • Scum On Down

    Scum On Down

    Writing can be a thankless task, particularly when you have a penchant for getting down and dirty and hitting it from the left-field. So many are institutionalised within approved echo-chambers that their independent thought processes no longer function correctly – if at all. Add to this an omnipresent reluctance of those in the know to…

    Max Frances

    Mar 4, 2020
    Books, BPO Contact Centres, Customer Service, Freaks, Recruitment, Society
    BBC, BPO, Courts, Crime, Data Protection, Documentary, Film, Flypaper for Freaks, Fraud, Freaking Hired!, Law, Max Frances, Offshoring, RPO, TV
  • For the Greta Good

    For the Greta Good

    Greta Thunberg spoke at a 30,000-strong rally in Bristol last week, which was great for all the kids who bunked off school to attend. Not so great however for the luxuriant lawns of the city’s College Green that were churned into a e-coli-bearing mud bath to rival the Glastonbury festival. And make no mistake, they’ll…

    Max Frances

    Mar 3, 2020
    Politics, Society
    Activism, Bristol, China, Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, Politics, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Russia, Social Justice Warriors, Social Media, Society, Trump
  • Croc Rocking

    Croc Rocking

    A town in Australia was recently the scene of an unwelcome spectacle when some miscreant hoisted a Nazi Swastika flag from a tower. One resident was ‘sickened and appalled’; another, ‘offended and disgusted’. Now that got the old grey matter stirring. Ruffians pull these stunts in order to provoke a reaction, and that is exactly…

    Max Frances

    Mar 1, 2020
    Politics, Society
    Anti-Semitism, Crime, Law, Liberal Elite, Nazis, Offence Culture, Politics, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Racism
  • Curl Up and Dye

    Curl Up and Dye

    Hair and beauty salons up and down the country have embarked on some sort of nitwit informal industrial action to ban celebrity gossip magazines in the wake of Caroline Flack’s death. I know. These chumps have the intellectual elasticity of an anvil. It’s also straight to the top of the irony class for Tracy and…

    Max Frances

    Feb 28, 2020
    Mental Health, Retail, Society
    Customers, Flack, French, Law, Lawyers, Liberal Elite, Mental Health, Paparazzi, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Suicide, TV
  • It’s a Plant!

    It’s a Plant!

    Looks like Harvey Weinstein is going to walk. Not in the sense of walk free, but just in that he no longer needs to huff and puff into court on a Zimmer frame like some sort of bewildered and geriatric Marcel Marceau. At one stage during his trial, I half-expected him to walk into a…

    Max Frances

    Feb 27, 2020
    Courts, Society
    Courts, Crime, Film, Hollywood, Jail, Law, Lawyers, Money, Plants, Prison, Society, Trump, Weinstein
  • Whistling in the Wind

    Whistling in the Wind

    A Chinese Doctor gets t-boned for speaking out about the coronavirus, and everyone is up in arms. I could understand it if he’d been dumped on for peddling powdered rhino dick, but from his perspective he was on a determined course to adhere to the Hippocratic oath. Sadly, he has shuffled off his mortal coil,…

    Max Frances

    Feb 25, 2020
    Complaining, Management, Politics, Society
    Charlatans, Complaints, Coronavirus, Courts, COVID-19, HR, Jobs, Law, Lawyers, Management, Organization, Whistleblowing
  • No Sex Please, We’re British

    No Sex Please, We’re British

    This week, Labour MP (and candidate for Deputy Leader) Dawn Butler stated on national TV that children are born without a biological sex. Barely reported in the press because the bonkers bar has been elevated to so high a level that pure, unadulterated biological flat-earthing is no longer man bites dog. I’m looking forward to…

    Max Frances

    Feb 23, 2020
    Politics, Society
    Conservatives, Gender, Gender Reassignment, Labour, Leadership, Leave, LGBT, Politics, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Remain, Sex, Society, Tory, TV
  • Honour Marks, Get Set…

    Honour Marks, Get Set…

    I’ve never been one for awards and medals – I sussed out the scam while a mere lad at school. After penning a superlative account of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s return from exile in France, I was awarded a coveted gold star. Emerging triumphant and euphoric from the headmaster’s office, I encountered the class dunderhead –…

    Max Frances

    Feb 22, 2020
    BPO Contact Centres, Freaks, Management, Politics, Recruitment, Schools, Society, Sport
    Awards, Flypaper for Freaks, Freaking Hired!, General Election, Honours, Jobs, Leadership, Management, Olympics, Politics, Psychology, Schools, Service
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