Tag: Authoritarianism

• Smelling of Ruses

  

  I’m probably way off the pace with this Alaska conflab, but it looks like a reshuffling of the cards in a typical Trump deal. The lore of deal-making – whatever piffle gets pushed out will be lauded as ‘great’, and the two leaders will come up smelling of ruses. It’s a funny old world right…

  Max Frances

  Aug 14, 2025

  Politics, War

  Alaska, Authoritarianism, Deal, Human Rights, Keir Starmer, Negotiations, Palestine, Palestine Action, Putin, Trump, Ukraine, Zelenskyy

• Chicken Kiev

  

  Another day, another Zelensky diktat to the West. And the line is again strikingly similar: demands for arms, a no-fly zone, ramped-up sanctions etc. The trite turd ultimately wants NATO to trigger World War III. How is it that this bloviating berk has bagged platforms to address overseas parliaments with this shameless shizzle? Well, that’s…

  Max Frances

  Apr 2, 2022

  Politics, War

  Army, Authoritarianism, Black Lives Matter, NATO, Parliament, Poland, Politics, Putin, Russia, Sanctions, Solidarity, Trans Rights, Ukraine, Virtue Signalling, War, World War III, Zelensky, Zelenskyy

• Loose Cannons

  

  Boris Johnson has announced the imminent removal of most COVID restrictions and asked the nation to ‘exercise its own judgement’. Given that the nation had elected him as Prime Minister, that may well be asking for trouble. All of this sparks the old Johnson-is-a-libertarian discourse into life, which once again pumps spunk into the some…

  Max Frances

  Jul 7, 2021

  Politics, Society

  Authoritarianism, Boris, Charlatans, Coronavirus, Corruption, COVID-19, Democracy, Facemasks, Mayor of London, Parliament, Policing Bill, Politics, PPE, Protests, Public Procurement