Mark Williams-Thomas –‘It weren’t me, Guv’– No: 276.
A prize pair. Fellow Paedo-hunters. Stinson-Hunter and Williams-Thomas. Mark Williams-Thomas has blundered into the bizarre Northern world of Owen Oyston. Across pages 8 and 9 of the Sunday People for...
View ArticleGrim 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...
View ArticleEven Grimmer Fairy Tales.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Long, long ago, in a leafy Sussex village, not far from where Piltdown Man was discovered to be a hoax, there came a man who had fallen on hard times. It...
View ArticleSavilisation as True Entertainment.
The avowedly left wing ‘new comedy’ has spoken. ‘The time is right’. ‘People are ready’. Child abuse as mainstream entertainment. An evening out. Dressed to kill – or rather dressed to listen to...
View ArticleSavile – Battersea – Some Facts.
Some weeks ago, I was contacted by a journalist enquiring whether the Battersea flat, 240a Battersea Bridge Road – the basement flat in this photograph, was in fact the same address where I had stayed...
View ArticleJanner’s Janissaries.
Lord Greville Janner’s loyal family and supporters are fighting a futile battle to preserve his reputation in the face of the disingenuous statements from both the CPS and the Leicestershire Police....
View ArticleSavell on Savile.
Detective Superintendent Jon Savell has finally spoken, albeit briefly. After 3 years of investigation into the allegations regarding Jimmy Savile at Duncroft, it amounts to 17 pages. 17 pages that are...
View ArticleIt started in America…!
And like everything from US Marines, to Global financial meltdown – for sure it will arrive on our shores eventually. I find it a horrifying prospect. I went in search of further information on a...
View ArticleLike British Rail snow – the ‘wrong’ sort of Victims.
There is no surer way to forget your own troubles than to listen to those of others. On Saturday, I sat and listened to the stories pour out of individuals who have suffered from the hideous process...
View ArticleWhat’s Gove got to do, got to do, with it?
The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 10 May 2015. The Secretary of State has oversight of all of Ministry of Justice business and is...
View ArticleIf you go down to the woods tonight…
Liverpool is an amazing place. Militant. Unbending. Not frightened to speak its mind. Especially the women. They are a terrifying breed. What was that you said? Where was I born? Oh, Liverpool, since...
View ArticleEquality of Gender.
Did you know that a thumping 50% of those who enter the Family courts emerge ‘deeply dissatisfied’, ’emotionally traumatised’ and ‘cynical about our Justice system’. Some of the 50% could even be...
View ArticleStarr Wars.
Monday, I managed to slip loose from the protective cordon that has been thrown around me – “for my own good” – and take the train down to London. It has been frustrating sitting here, behaving myself,...
View ArticleChildline.
Back in July 2011, around the time that Meirion Jones was first making a move on the story of great personal interest to him and his family: Mr Jones told me that, around July 2011, he mentioned the...
View ArticleTrumps, Tramps, and Trims, and Peeping at Tom’s.
Trumps. What Donald Trump actually said: “I like Mexico, I love the Mexican people, I do business with Mexico,” he said. “But you have people coming through the border who are from all over and they’re...
View Article“The Daily Speculation” and “The Alarmist Times”.
I’m starting to count the number of times that the early morning news contains the words ‘The Prime Minister will tell business leaders today’ or ‘George Osborne is expected to announce'; I’m counting...
View ArticleThe BBC on the naughty step.
I’ve been taking a look at the Foxes that John Wittingdale has chosen to put in charge of the British Broadcasting Henhouse, otherwise known as the BBC. Rather more dogs than vixens, as it happens, so...
View ArticleBatman n’ Robbin’.
There can be no sadder sight than a hot air ballon collapsing in ignominy. Speaking as someone who once spent some months working for a hot air balloon company, I know just how many hours go into...
View ArticleNever Mind the Bollocks.
One of the enduring on-line Savile myths is that the arch anarchist ‘Johnny Rotten’, as John Lydon became known, ‘warned the BBC about Savile’ in 1978 – but the interview was ‘censored by the BBC’....
View ArticleTime to revisit Gillick?
Medieval schoolgirls had to hunt their own contraceptives… Way back in the mists of time, when the Labour party was merely middle aged, Jeremy Corbyn was still wearing short trousers, and no one knew...
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