Tag: Party

• Shambollocks

  

  As a nation, we all still appear to be in perpetual shock that in voting for Boris Johnson, we ended up getting Boris Johnson. He is clearly the toast of the Conservative Party, of course in the crispy, charred sense. For a loquacious smith of words, his non-apology was as transparent as Fishy Rishi’s 200-mile-away…

  Max Frances

  Jan 12, 2022

  Politics

  Boris, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ed Davey, Ian Blackford, Jimmy Savile, Keir Starmer, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Lockdown, Omicron, Party, PM, Ramadan, Sunak, Tories

• Who, Janus?

  

  So, January 1st and a New Year. But it was not always the case that celebrations took place in the month of January. In Ancient Rome, the calendar followed the lunar cycle, so the New Year fell in March. For the January gig, you can blame a chap called Sosigenes – an astronomer – who persuaded…

  Max Frances

  Jan 1, 2020

  Society

  Celebrations, Fireworks, New Year, New Year Celebrations, Party, Positive Thinking, Positivity, Psychology, Society