Author Archives: Nicholas Hughes

MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO STANDARDISE FAKE NEWS

November 25 Blog no comments

In an effort to raise standards in the fake news industry, mainstream media outlets from CNN, the BBC, CBS, the New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent and the New Yorker magazine have signed an agreement to standa...

THEATRE GOER MAKES IMPASSIONED PLEA FOR PLAYS ABOUT ORDINARY LIFE

November 21 Blog no comments

BROADWAY, NEW YORK.  Regular theatre goer, Mike Shilling, stood up at the end of a performance of “Nazi Allegory” and made an impassioned, heartfelt plea for a greater variety of subjects for plays. Mr Shilli...

TWITTER TO REBRAND ITSELF AS “DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF TWITTER”...

November 18 Blog no comments

In an effort to stem a sharp decline in revenue and to combat the rise of the supposed “fake news” websites, Twitter has declared itself as the “Democratic People’s Republic of Twitter” or DPRoT (dip-rot). Senior executi...

THUNDERBLOG

November 14 Blog no comments

When I went to see SPECTRE at the cinema, people asked me what I thought about it. My immediate reply was that “it was like Thunderball”.  Some got the reference, others didn’t.  It’s not a about the obvious resemblances...

BBC SETS DIVERSITY TARGET: “WE NEED TO ACHIEVE 50% INCOMPETANT PEOPLE...

November 14 Blog no comments

The British Broadcasting Corporation has announced bold new plans to ensure that at least half of all its on-camera, technical and administrative talent will be utterly incompetent and useless at their jobs by 2020. “We’...

TIM FARRON: NEXT GOAL WINS?

November 11 Blog no comments

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, MP, called for a chance to reverse the Brexit decision using the old park football rule “next goal wins”. “Right, we’ll start again and whoever gets the next go...

Alternative post: AMERICA DECIDES, WAR WITH RUSSIA IT IS THEN

November 9 Blog no comments

A little backstory here.  In the run-up to the U.S. Presidential election I wrote two pieces; one if Trump had won (the Deplorables 1-0 Corruptibles article) and one if Hillary had won.  I present this, the one that I wr...

DEPLORABLES 1-0 CORRUPTIBLES

November 9 Blog no comments

The world of sport was shocked at the result that the United States Deplorables have snatched a scrappy 1-0 win over their rivals the American Corruptibles. The Deplorables, known for their hard tackling, fouling, coarse...

U.S. ELECTION DAY: BRITONS FLOCK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO VOTE

November 8 Blog no comments

  All across the United Kingdom, millions of Britons cast their votes for the U.S. Presidential election by going online and making their opinions known on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Just after 8am GMT well know...

BREXIT RESULT TO BE OVERTURNED IN BBC TALENT CONTEST

November 6 Blog no comments

A new talent show will debut on BBC1 this winter called “The Brex Factor”. In it, contestants will pitch an idea on how to overturn the referendum result using the medium of song, dance, comedy or spurious legal challeng...