Paedophilia

Savile, Yewtree, and the true victims of child abuse.

April 4, 2013 124 comments

The picture editors were busy yesterday. The winsome portrayals of Madeleine McCann, once the picture of choice if the word paedophilia was to be mentioned in the media, were passed over. The aging shots of Jimmy Savile dusted down again, a touch of yellow applied to the teeth; the one with the sinister leer selected, the fattest cigar, symbol [...]

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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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Who Let the Dogs Out?

January 11, 2013 74 comments

Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial. William Shakespeare I have been pondering this matter for days now, since before Christmas. Small details permeated my conscience, building up a picture that I could not bear to look at. A [...]

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The pic n’ mix Pollard Report.

December 19, 2012 117 comments

Along with several other interested parties, I have spent the afternoon digesting the Pollard report on whether the Newsnight ‘Savile’ programme was pulled from the transmission schedule because of ‘pressure from above’ or not. Watching Twitter on the subject, the phrase that has been lept on with glee has been that Peter Rippon’s decision not to permit transmission was [...]

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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

November 28, 2012 81 comments

Though in truth, you should be mighty afeard; Calibans’ ‘thousand twangling instruments’ are in full throttle and care not how they put at risk our hard won and historic rights to fair judgement by our peers. In the light of Greater Manchester’s astounding statement last night concerning Cyril Smith: The Force is now publicly acknowledging that young [...]

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The British Broadcasting Corporation – a Monument to Paedophilia.

November 16, 2012 108 comments
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In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corporation, pride of the British people, commissioned the architect Lieutenant Colonel G. Val Myer, to design a building as their corporate headquarters which would embody the spirit of the organisation as they pushed their version of British values across the airwaves to a world still coloured pink on the map of ‘the Empire’. The building [...]

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The Bureau for Instigative Churnalism.

November 12, 2012 213 comments

in·sti·gate  (nst-gt) tr.v. in·sti·gat·ed, in·sti·gat·ing, in·sti·gates 1. To urge on; goad. 2. To stir up; foment. It is said that success has many Fathers whilst failure is an orphan – surely no foundling was so swiftly denounced as ‘no son of mine’ than the  grandiosely named Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Founded in 2009, with a £2 million pound donation from that well known Labour benefactor, David Potter, [...]

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