Vintage Anna

Walkin’ the Blog…

March 18, 2013 81 comments
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Remember when the Guardian first started making allegations that the News of the World had hacked Millie Dowler’s phone and deleted messages? Remember how it soon became ’murdered Millie’s’ phone, just in case we had missed the point that this was a heartless technological triumph carried out by sinister black hats employed by the blackest hat of them all - Rupert Murdoch? Eventually [...]

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Starve the BBC and Other Savile Initiatives.

March 12, 2013 65 comments

A while ago, someone drew my attention to a Tweet from @fleetstreetfox regarding Lord Rennard. I was quite shocked at the time, for Susan Boniface has said that the reason she took up the ‘anonymous identity ‘ of fleetstreetfox was to allow her to write of things that might have caused a problem in her day job as Mirror journalist. [...]

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The Merry Knives of Winsor and yet Another Savile Inquiry.

March 12, 2013 350 comments

Ping! went the computer in the middle of the night as a rash of correspondents e-mailed to warn me that yet another Savile report was out. Several pointed to the Guardian headline published a dutiful couple of minutes after the report’s embargo deadline of midnight. “Police could have stopped Jimmy Savile in the 1960s, says official report”. Don’t tell [...]

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Jimmy Fried my Hamster and other tales from International Women’s Day.

March 8, 2013 19 comments
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International Women’s Day is with us again, our annual chance to shriek how unfair life is…we do soldier manfully womanfully on the other 364 days of the year with narry a word of complaint. Today is our day, so let rip ladies. Anything the men can do we can do better – they have International Men’s Day (November 19th each [...]

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Yewtree Unplugged.

March 6, 2013 106 comments

Whoever named the Police trawling operation in the wake of the Savile allegations ’Operation Yewtree’ had a sense of humour. The Yewtree is famous for its slow growth and longevity, and its raucously attractive fruit which appeals to little birdies – but contains a deadly poisonous seed. Operation Yewtree has certainly lived up to that. That seed was spawned [...]

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The Way We Were.

March 5, 2013 46 comments

I was nearly tempted out of my sick bed by a chance reading of a Guardian piece which claimed to have uncovered 43,00 – that’s forty three thousand in case you glossed over the figures – cases of child abuse in a 21 month period. Noooo! An extra 43,000 victims? Another 43,000 queuing at the compo agency? Surely not, can there be [...]

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The Media and Propaganda.

February 15, 2013 60 comments
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Hollywood has long been a cost free publicity machine. Cost free in the sense that it sold its output and therefore required little or no financial input from those who wished to influence the minds of the general public. Where government is concerned, there have been some costs attributable - the military personnel and awesome fighting machinery is always available to film makers; with the proviso [...]

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