Has the world gone totally mad ?

It would have been more funny though if she had two plaits.

I suppose most people in that area know it to be a satirical
Publication though, we can’t not have satire!

We have just read George Orwell's 1984 for book group, which has made me very aware of the dangers of fake news and 'alternative truths'. No problem with Private Eye, but fake news is very dangerous and should be exposed wherever it can be. Truth is a very precious thing.

Absent I think the use of social media has blurred the lines between fake news and satire.
I mean if you read something in the middle pages of Private Eye, or in Viz, or see something on Spitting Image, you know it’s satire.
But when something from an online publication pops up on your FB feed it’s not clear at all.
Last year an article appeared on mine saying that Lidl were going to have ‘middle-class Mondays’ when all working-class people would be denied entrance to the stores. It was obvious to me that it was meant to be a dig at middle-class people, but lots of people left outraged, righteously indignant comments, blaming Theresa May for Lidl's supposedly divisive policies.

Well what a sad pathetic waste of time, with the potential to cause harm ,distrust etc . ?

Fake news is not just a jolly jape. It is usually used on social media and is designed either to promote something or to denigrate it. Perhaps the most obvious example was the apparent news that Hillary Clinton was running a paedophile ring from a pizza parlour basement. The cafe didn't actually have a basement and, of course, Hillary Clinton was not running any sort of criminal activity, but that didn't stop a man with a gun and a lot of anger entering the place. Fake news is a form of propaganda that usually has a political aim. However, a lot of fake news during the last election in America was, apparently a money scam set up, I think, somewhere in Greece – get enough hits, you get the advertising revenue.

It’s fake. ?

Got to be a joke. but not funny. what a strange world we live in, I’m rapidly turning into a grumpy old woman ?

She should be in detention for not doing up her top button.

When I first read this I thought it might refer to a girl's high school in Southend where the the uniform is a rather short green and blue tartan kilt and black tights.
In his unmarried days our second son used to teach there and I was rather dubious about the ethos of the place.
But I'm just oldfashioned, and TG son behaved himself.
They got very good academic results.

I think Fake News has ruined satire! I mean ... what's the difference?

The Rochdale Herald’s another one
rochdaleherald.co.uk/2018/04/23/royal-baby-to-be-named-prince-kevin-probably/

Ah ha - janeainsworth ... that makes complete sense.

? ha!

Well that’s good news !!

You can see how the whole fake news thing happens then eh?

Perhaps this is fake. The names ‘Mrs Prudence’ and ‘Mr Gland’ are um ... ‘interesting’!
If it’s not, then I find it completely crazy, and a sad state of affairs. ?
I would certainly insist that the school fund any new glasses if I were Mrs Prudence.

n&g the Southend News Network is an online satirical publication.