Tag: Joey Barton

• Game’s Gone

  

  Six years ago, I started posting opinions online, lamenting that we had strayed down the path of the post-fact/post-truth. Nothing could have prepared me for where we find ourselves today. Game’s gone. A BBC newsreader, Martine Croxhall, has been sternly rebuked for correcting her teleprompter that referred to ‘pregnant people’, by adding ‘women’. Surely, it…

  Max Frances

  Nov 7, 2025

  Society

  Eni Aluko, Freedom of Speech, Joey Barton, Law, Liberal Elite, Malicious Communications, Martine Croxhall, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Sir Mark Rowley, Social Media, Trans Rights, Twitter, X

• Not Fit to Iron the Shirt

  

  Former footballer and manager Joey Barton has ruffled a few feather boas in recent weeks by stating some of the least controversial comments imaginable. He has said that the current locust swarm of female pundits are crap. That’s not even an opinion. It’s a fact. Claiming that their presence on screen in the context of…

  Max Frances

  Jan 7, 2024

  Social Media, Sport, Television

  Football, ITV, Joey Barton, Lionesses, misogyny, Pundits, Sexism, Three Lions, TV, Woke, Wokeness, Women