Journalists, Suicide, Transgenderism and Media Infighting.
Ooh, that Richard Littlejohn is a terrible man, and the Daily Mail, dreadful paper! Why just three months ago, he was demanding that young children be protected from the full onslaught of adult...
View ArticleSavile, Yewtree, and the true victims of child abuse.
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...
View ArticleThe Great British Whine Industry.
During the week I had recorded an episode of Piers Morgan’s interview series. A case of nothing else worth recording really – the others I have seen have been a succession of women agonising over some...
View ArticleTrawling the Shallows.
The Internet has correctly been concerned at what has been perceived as the loss of a ‘right’. The proposals by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) to refuse to release the names of...
View ArticleIs Sickie-Icke Dicky?
SELLING DAVID A PUP. It’s been so long for me since I began the stressful and lonely path of ‘thinking outside of the box’ in terms of digesting the information I was being fed (and, of course, I...
View ArticlePallial Palliations.
When mollusca trawl their glutinous way across our landscape, they have the evolutionary advantage of a third eye to spot potential predators. It’s called the pallial eye. I thought I’d tell you...
View ArticleNigel Evans MP is not Dead; Nigel Evans MP is Gay!
Blimey! If we ever doubted the veracity of the two statements in my headline, we have only to take a quick run through the media today. Even the various pictures of Nigel Evans MP that are selected by...
View ArticleThe Family Liaison Officer.
I chanced upon a remark in my recent reading that struck me as so callous, so utterly devoid of empathy, that I stopped short. Who had made this remark? A Family Liaison Officer! As is my wont, I...
View ArticleAn important advance in Child Protection.
Whilst we were all busy reading the West Yorkshire Police Inquiry Report this morning, which having earnestly reported that it was keen to ‘separate myth and rumour from fact’ went on to tell us...
View ArticleThe Victimal Hierarchy.
Can I pose a question to you? When you go to fill up your car, do you search out the most expensive petrol to buy? No? Surely you have a moral duty to do so? You earn your money in the UK, yes? Then...
View ArticlePutting a Spanner in the Works…
Back some 20 years ago, when the sun still shone in summer time, and young army lads only got beheaded in foreign places so there was no need for a focus group to tell the Prime Minister what to Tweet...
View ArticleThe Magna Carta – Walking in King John’s footsteps.
798 years ago today, King John set his seal on the Magna Carta. The contents of that historic document had been bitterly argued over for four days. During those days, as the Barons struggled to wrest...
View ArticleRight up my Street!
Let’s see how good a detective you are! Last night I watched one of the ‘Britain’s Secret Homes’ series; I’ve found it fascinating, full of nuggets of useless information – just my sort of thing, or...
View ArticlePants!
The Urban Dictionary describes the word ‘Pants‘ thus: Adj. British slang. Not good; total crap; nonsense; rubbish; bad; woefully inadequate; useless; a waste of time and space. I just thought I’d...
View ArticleSome positive progress for a change…
I had not thought when I first put pen to paper on the Savile affair, that it would still be lustily gorging every spare moment of my time months later. I doubt very much that the handful of 70s...
View ArticleThe misery hiding behind the Savile headlines.
I spoke yesterday of the vast volume of mail I am receiving, since starting to write of the Savile case. Some makes me angry beyond belief – and as if by magic, one such arrived overnight. The writer...
View ArticleThe Other Side of ‘Exposure’ – The Real Victims of the Jimmy Savile Story.
Before I started writing this, I played a segment of ‘Exposure’ back to myself. Within the first few minutes I was listening to yet another lie – the story of ‘Sarah’ allegedly portrayed by an actress...
View ArticleStuart Hall and that Guilty Plea.
Today, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, sitting with Justice Rafferty and Justice Macur, will decide whether the 15-month jail term that Stuart Hall received after pleading guilty to 14 counts of...
View ArticlePuerile Savile and the Mexican Staring Frog.
What arrant nonsense have the hacks that write our Tabloids ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ come up with now? What balderdash-on-stilts is served today? When the Sunday Pictorial was launched in 1915, Lord...
View ArticleChuggers-R-Us – the NSPCC and Daniel Pelka.
You see them everywhere, representatives of the NSPCC. You hear them on the adverts during afternoon TV; they are on the breakfast sofa’s opining on the latest ‘terrible outrage’; they are in the side...
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