“Forgive Us Our Press Passes”.
100 Years ago, the daily circulation of The Times was around 5,000. Today it is nearer the 400,000 mark. You might imagine that the ‘product’ was doing something right – it was once, but today the...
View ArticleLeft Foot in the Circle…
One of the more curious aspects of the silence maintained by the vociferous voices we now hear shouting about Governmental inactivity and suppression of ‘facts’ to the detriment of ‘vulnerable...
View ArticleRitual Humiliation and ‘Mini’ Clifford.
Empty vessels aren’t the only ones that make a lot of noise; a broken one can fair ring down the ages too. It doesn’t require great skill to smash a pottery vessel, but breaking up the resulting shards...
View ArticleExclusive – The Origins of Savilisation – Part Two.
When Susan returned to Duncroft, she gave the records to Ms Jones, the head mistress. She found herself closely questioned about this meeting with a celebrity from the music business – she had, after...
View ArticleExclusive – The Origins of Savilisation – Part Three.
Another afternoon, and the boredom of Duncroft was relieved by a coach turning up (Wot! Still no Rolls Royce? You’ll never get the media to publish this!) – a rather special coach with tables between...
View ArticleExclusive – The Origins of Savilisation – Part Four.
Once the older girls had moved onto Norman Lodge, and Susan was back in her dormitory, she wrote to Savile – a ‘come back all is forgiven’ letter in her words, there no longer seemed any reason why he...
View ArticleFreddie Starr – Charging decisions
The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that Freddie Starr should not be prosecuted for any offence. Baljit Ubhey, the Chief Crown Prosecutor of CPS London, said: “Having carefully reviewed this...
View ArticleGrayling Spawns Again – more Cod.
Inmates place their bets on the unscathed survival of the latest pupil at Grayling’s ‘School for Scandal’. The Criminal Justice Bill has attracted a lot of attention – not least because of the...
View ArticlePaedo-Ring-a-Roses.
The Sunday Express has disinterred Mike Hames this morning – the ex-head of the old ‘Obscene Publication Squad’ before it became the keyword friendly and up-to-the-minute ‘Paedophile Information...
View ArticleThe Lesser Spotted Sex Trafficked Victim.
Across the globe, a new variety of ‘spiritual’ leader is arising to cheers from the grim faced populace. The ‘moral’ guardian. We have no truck any longer with men in long black dresses, with books...
View ArticleA Matter of F.A.C.T – Witch Hunts Old and New Part 2
In my last piece I tried to set out something of the origins and psychology of the original “witch hunt” in early modern Europe, and tried to identify the aspects of the psychology. May I thank the...
View ArticleFilthy Lucre and Prurience.
After the idea of anyone under the age of 18 engaging in any form of sex, nothing excites the British quite so much as the idea of paying for sex. Paying with money that is. We have never made up our...
View ArticleThe Stick and Carrot Guide to Child Abuse.
So often, what you are not told in court cases proves more interesting than what you are told. Down in deepest Ceredigion, where the Teifi and the Dulas merge in a damp and noisy embrace, sits...
View ArticleAll Cats Not So Grey in the Dark.
The notion that sex in some circumstances is degrading harks back to ideas of racial purity, eugenics even. Some sexual acts can be degrading, both to men and women – but it is never the act that...
View ArticleNot Even Whispered It Softly?
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence”. Leonardo da Vinci. Post-Leveson, the Dead Tree Press has been keen to show that, unregulated, they can expose much wrong doing in our world that...
View ArticleYet More ‘Fake Survivors’ of Sex Abuse.
The lusty screech from survivors of sex abuse around the world begging for money and their equally vociferous legal advisors and champions bellowing for their share is becoming deafening. It is a...
View ArticleI am the very model of the Paedo-finder General.
I am the very model of the Paedo-finder General, I love investigating celebrities, and I’m chastely puritanical, I twat on Twitter and with privacy I’m economical; I’ve learned to speak at...
View ArticleA Matter of F.A.C.T Part 3
Setting the scene – Bryn Estyn and North Wales care home allegations; anatomy of a Witch Hunt? I’m sorry if this is a bit long and dry, but I wanted to put some later comments in a proper context....
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