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Proctor Gambles on Fairy Transparency.
Harvey Proctor has unsheathed his ‘sword of truth’ and come out fighting; unwilling to cower in the closet any longer whilst rumours swirl around the Internet. Taking the lectern in the Marlborough...
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Munchausen’s Tea Party.
The poisonous legacy of Leveson drags on. The main stream media has turned into ‘penny dreadful’ country in its efforts to prove that it should be allowed to print anything and everything (well, not...
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*Exclusive* – Mandatory Reporting and Meirion Jones.
Meirion Jones has long been an advocate of ‘Mandatory Reporting’ – a system of criminal sanctions for those who have care of children but have failed to report allegations of abuse made to them...
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Class and the Common Girl.
Reading one of Moor Larkin’s excellent posts the other night, an excerpt from the Pollard report caught my eye. I had seen it before, but in isolation; now I was reading it again in conjunction with...
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The Collapsing Crucible
Something very interesting has happened in the past few months. Johnny may have come lately, but he’s here at last. Beyond the bunkers that have sheltered common sense from an incessant shower of bile...
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Publish and Be Damned
Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Honecker’s DDR – mandatory reporting to the authorities by friends, families and neighbours, phone-taps, wire-taps, cameras tracking the moves of every...
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The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle
Sometimes a face gatecrashes the public consciousness with such force that the imprint of the image acquires an immortal permanence; the owner of the iconic countenance in question remains fixed as...
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The Walton Hop and Operation Ravine.
When the Walton Hop opened its doors in the Surrey countryside of 1958 it would scarcely have been described as a ‘teen disco’ – too few people would have understood the meaning. ‘Teenagers’ had...
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Exaro digging ever deeper.
Herr Watts – Mark Flick. It is not the first time in Mark Watts’ chequered career that he has been accused of being ‘McCarthyite’ or instigating a witch hunt. It makes it difficult to say anything...
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The Ring Cycle
Back in the 1980s, I was an avid reader of the music press, and my favourite weekly was ‘Melody Maker’. Within a few months of purchasing my first issue, I became familiar with the different writers...
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The Pied Pipers of Paedo Panic.
The Times excels itself in the blame game… In times of yore, Kelvin MacKenzie, then at the helm of the great ship ‘Sun’, was of the opinion that the answer to the question ‘what is a journalist for’...
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False Memory Lane
Fifteen years in-and-out of therapy, and did it do me any good? Well, I can reflect on odd moments that persuaded me look at an issue from a different angle, one that then made it make more sense; but...
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Oh! Revoir!
Paul Revoir is a journalist. At least, he’s portrayed as such on Journalisted. He grubbed around in the bowels of the Daily Mail for years, delivering earth shattering opera to his Editor: Film-maker...
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That’s Settled.
DCI Paul Settle’s evidence to the Home Affairs Committee yesterday has been fascinating. A solid, old fashioned Police Officer, standing his ground in the face of his senior officers and an array of...
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Collateral Damage.
I woke last Sunday morning with a particular image in my mind, that could be aptly described as ‘collateral damage’ to the continuing #CSA saga. Within an hour, I had dismissed the thought as being...
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Cops on The Box
Occasionally, a debate in the snug or a confidential chat with a regular can lead to another post, as is the case with this one. When Gildas recently expressed an interest in writing a piece on US...
View Article‘This Septic Isle’– full of elderly Paedophiles.
Just how do you rehabilitate a society where two thirds of the adult males have been jailed for sexual offences? Where more than half the population are dependant pensioners, and where, within the next...
View ArticleOne of Life’s Characters.
There’s many a man of the Cameron clan That has followed his chief to the field He has sworn to support him or die by his side For a Cameron never can yield. Clan Cameron is said to be one of the most...
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The Divine Ms Raccoon’s Annual Beanfeast….
I said we’d organise something, so here’s a very important date to put in your diaries – 19th November 2015. Previous get togethers have been in London, generally organised round Old Holborn’s annual...
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Hats Off to Roy
Much like his contemporary and fellow wandering minstrel, Richard Thompson, Roy Harper has never really troubled the charts. He’s been a constant, critically-acclaimed cult figure on the fringes for...
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