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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part One.
The blog post that won’t go away is still bouncing around in my head; the Sunday newspapers today have further infuriated me – and after long talks with Mr G, I have made the decision to publish. It...
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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Two
Where was I? Oh, yes, Cumberlow Lodge, South Norwood. Politely described as a ‘children’s home’ – no doubt to honour the strictures of the will of the Victorian philanthropist, W E Stanley, who had...
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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Three.
Duncroft! I never thought I would hear that name again – and suddenly it is on everybody’s lips! It is nearly 50 years ago that the car I was in drew up outside that familiar facade and I prepared to...
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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Four.
First some corrections from yesterday – I was very tired and didn’t proof read properly; dining is spelt dining, not dinning; I’m has got an m after the apostrophe; I was 16 and coming up to my 17th...
View ArticlePast Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Five.
Perhaps we should be renaming the BBC; instead of the friendly ’Aunty Beeb’ conjuring up a safe pair of trustworthy womanly hands, would ‘Uncle Beeb’ with all the connotations of the furtive, fiddling...
View ArticlePast Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Six.
The opening sequence of the Panorama film featuring the alleged sexual abuse of children at Duncroft lingered on a huge and imposing set of Victorian iron gates. Half open, they conjured up an image...
View ArticlePast Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Seven.
Evening all; pull up a chair and pin your ears back. I have, this evening, had a long talk with Miss Margaret Jones, headmistress of Duncroft for many years. It was almost 50 years since we had spoken...
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The Bureau for Instigative Churnalism.
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...
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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Eight.
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy – this entire shebang grows more bizzarre by the hour, if not by the minute. Overnight, a woman called Andrea Davison has emerged to claim that she was also at Duncroft, and there...
View ArticleUpdated! – Trial by Posthumous Innuendo.
Following last night’s episode of ‘Exposure’, the prosecution’s case for the demonisation of Jimmy Savile was completed in the sense that the audience have been invited to give their verdict. No doubt...
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Exclusive – A Panoramic View from the BBC.
Pan·o·ram·a (pn-rm, -räm) n. 1. An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area. 2. A comprehensive presentation; a survey. Feudal dynasties will lock horns tonight. Old scores will be settled between...
View ArticleThe pic n’ mix Pollard Report.
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...
View ArticleNonce Sense.
I am indebted to my commentator, DtP, for suggesting the title – superb! Wish I had thought of it myself. First the Yewtree report. This long awaited £450,000 worth of expensive police time has...
View ArticleSecret Trials and Uncorroborated Witnesses.
“If we do not change the way we use this material in court we risk inviting a torrent of new claims. Our enemies will begin to realise that our justice system is an open goal and come rushing with...
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The Media and Propaganda.
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...
View ArticleThe Way We Were.
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...
View ArticleYewtree Unplugged.
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...
View ArticleThe Merry Knives of Winsor and yet Another Savile Inquiry.
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...
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Starve the BBC and Other Savile Initiatives.
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...
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Wilfred De’Ath – One Hypocritical Old Goat.
So the first of the Yewtree branches has crashed to the ground, a sound virtually unheard in the forest of bad news today. The ‘famous actress’ (I had to look her up such a household name was she…)...
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