Tag: Malala

• Chapter and Verse

  

  In the hours following the US Inauguration pomp and ceremony, CNN triumphally announced that Amanda Gorman had ‘… reminded America of what poetry can do’. Well, indirectly at least. Absolutely nothing. We had just watched the world’s most powerful nation saved from the brink of implosion, and once again, aspirations masquerading as values had heralded…

  Max Frances

  Jan 23, 2021

  Politics, Society, Writing

  Amanda Gorman, Biden, Books, Greta Thunberg, Liberal Elite, Malala, Poem, Post-Fact, Post-Truth, Social Media, Trump, Twitter, US Elections, US President, Virtue Signalling