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Savile – the Mail on Sunday Investigation continues…
Former cancer patient who said Savile saved her life now wants £60,000 for ‘sex abuse’ in latest questionable claim against his estate Claim one of many being laid against Savile’s estate found to be...
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Howlin’ Woolf – For Whom the Axe Falls.
I think I’ll toss a new name into the hat full of suggestions for a person deemed suitable to drink from the poisoned chalice that is to be set in front of the ‘Chair’ of the Independent Inquiry into...
View ArticleOzzie Man –“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
It used to be that we said ‘What happens in the US this week, will follow in the UK next week’ – but recently we have been following in the footsteps, closely in the footsteps, of Australia. The Land...
View ArticleNothing for victims: The £3million left in Jimmy Savile’s estate will be...
Just 22 out of 58 payout claims against Jimmy Savile have been accepted amid warnings that his estate may be swallowed up by legal fees… leaving nothing for genuine victims 58 damages claims have...
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On Ascending to Insanity and Shrimpton Fishing.
I have often pondered why the cliché is ‘descending into madness’ – given the number of people who end up firmly believing that they are the son of the Man upstairs, and spend the rest of their life...
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Duncroft – the Finale. Part One.
One minute I had so many plates spinning in the air I didn’t know which way to turn and began to doubt my ability to keep them all airborne – and the next? Why, if they didn’t all magically float down...
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Innocent until Proven Dead; and the secrets you will never know.
In this age of Internet trial, the dead are truly Damned. The slurping sound you can hear on the cyber waves is the sound of a thousand career conspiracy theorists licking their lips at the thought of...
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The Sunday Post: That Was The Week That Was
It began with this News. and ended with this News and in between Gary Glitter was convicted, and the newspapers sentenced him to die in prison. So, it turns out that Freddie...
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Old Lags and Retrograde Justice.
Life on the Zimmer frame wing… In the year of the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the wheels of Justice appear to be not so much turning slowly as spinning uncontrollably in reverse. On the one...
View ArticleThe Mountain comes to Mohamed.
Ms Raccoon has been off scurrying down another rabbit hole. It proved to be a rich seam of material. We may be some time digging into this one folks… It started when the morning newspapers brought word...
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Alphabet Soup and Paedo Hysteria.
Kevin Harrington appears to have spent most of his working life immersed in alphabet soup. He is the author of Serious Case Reviews ranging from Child ‘A’ in London, through Child ‘C’ in Portsmouth,...
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Where’s the Beef, Mum? More Savile ‘Revelations’.
Whilst the Stoke Mandeville report on Jimmy Savile’s association with that hospital grabbed all the headlines, and the predictable hand wringing – ‘if only we had had mandatory reporting we could have...
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The Sunday Post: A Confirmed Bachelor Boy
Watching ‘Wolf Hall’ this week, I was reminded of how Thomas Cromwell settled a few old scores when inventing evidence to condemn the luckless Anne Boleyn to a date with the executioner. He trawled...
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Black, White, and Fifty Shades of Grey.
There was a regular commentator on this blog who used to delight in taking me to task for my ‘privileged’ background, usually in disparaging tones. His assumption was one he was forced to eat for...
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‘Seek and Ye Shall Not Find’– more Savile allegations.
And we’re off and running again, searching for that elusive item, a genuine example of ‘truly awful, dreadful child abuse’ as reported to Operation Yewtree, amongst the additional 20 children’s homes:...
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The Buried Truth? – More Savile allegations.
Another day and another half dozen ‘truly awful, dreadful’ examples of the savage abuse Savile allegedly inflicted on vulnerable children in Children’s Homes. Henshaw’s School for the Blind – the...
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Grim Fairy Tales…The Savile Allegations.
I was struck by the number of people – allegators – in the past series of Savile reports, who had contacted Yewtree merely out of a wish to validate other reports of abuse. In plain English – although...
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An Open Letter to Max Hastings.
I wish I could admire you more. I admire your writing; I remember you as a reporter on 24 Hours – but I struggle when I try to admire you as a person. It’s the way in which your principles are...
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Maverick Meltdown.
Our mirthless, Eeyorish, lumbering dinosaur of a national broadcasting corporation has finally managed to plant its flat feet firmly in the middle of a contretemps it cannot win. Astonishing remarks...
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Exclusive – Jeremy Apologises!
Wonders will never cease. Jeremy has apologised! Ms Raccoon’s obsession with truth rather than fantasy has paid off. It is but a small victory, but one that gives me great pleasure. Back at the...
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