Category: Arts & Media

Are the UK’s reality TV shows really nothing more than a charter for would be sex offenders? As another show comes under scrutiny for allegations of sexual assault against female contestants, producer announces new, even more controversial, format featuring male contestants trying to guess which female contestant is underage. Bold taboo-challenging social experiment or low grade titillation for the sexually depraved?

Top academic asks – why do long-running media narratives, like the Epstein Files, never seem to reach a satisfactory conclusion? Why is that ‘smoking gun’ never quite found? Is it a conspiracy by media elites to distract the public from what’s really going on in the world via these never-ending narratives? Or are the public being protected from the mind-numbingly mundane nature of the real world?

Are increasing requirements for intrusive ID and age checks for internet pornography driving users back to traditional, analogue, smut? Entrepreneur announces launch of new line of adult magazines in anticipation of analogue migration, pointing to lack of age checks at local newsagents for top shelf content. Others look forward to return of traditional strip joints, peep shows and sex shops as digital ID checks become more prevalent.

Is UK right-wing media’s relentless focus on doom and gloom part of an attempt to actually manifest a dystopian reality via minds of its readers? Is it part of plot to create environment for extreme right-wing political victory? Is Labour government using Tibetan monks to manifest counter positive reality via meditation?

Drive-by shootings by double decker buses! Top TV producer unveils controversial plans to update classic UK TV sitcom ‘On the Buses’, portraying original characters as drug dealers dispensing cocaine from the top deck! Scripts feature shootings, gang warfare and drug driving of buses – all played for laughs in what is described as a dark comedy for contemporary Britain.

Top British tabloid editor vents frustrations at not being able to fully embrace Trump and his anti-immigration, cost-cutting and anti civil rights policies due to US president’s unpopularity in UK. Claims Fleet Street’s right-wing press ‘in Hell’ as they also feel obliged to attack right-wing Labour government for implementing anti-immigration, anti-benefits agenda and anti-public spending agenda they previously endorsed.

Should all creative activity be handed over to Artificial Intelligence? With writers, actors, directors and other creatives increasingly being ‘outed’ as sex offenders, religious freaks, animal molesters and Nazis, top science fiction writer claims that AI created fiction, films and TV would save fans from emotional trauma of having to constantly cancel their idols.