Around midnight last night, Ms Raccoon’s e-mail pinged with an exceptional morsel from Tom Winnifrith, the experienced and multi-talented financial journalist who was responsible for uncovering the frauds that lay at the heart of Rob Terry’s empire. That
Continue reading →The Slater and Gordon, ‘False Allegations’ Popcorn Show.
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Moor Larkin celebrates an achievement – 500 forensically painstakingly researched articles on the Savile phenomena. (Yes, it did make me check – I have written 274 over a longer period, and even then not so closely focussed).
Continue reading →The Savile Memorial Celebrations…
100 years ago last year, a bitter little man, a man who hoped to be ‘somebody’ one day, a man with his head full of the ‘injustices’ of his life, but who, despite his poor background had had
Continue reading →The Dame Janet Smith Review.
The BBC was off to a cracking start this morning – commencing with the ceremonial hurling of the sacrificial spent carcass of yet another DJ from the top of BBC Towers to the waiting mob below – Tony Blackburn.
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Parish Notice.
Ms Raccoon would like to apologise for leaving you all in the dark last week – and to thank you for behaving so well with no one watching over you.
I have had several e-mails asking
Continue reading →The right to defend yourself against sexual allegations?
A fascinating case has been making its way through the legal system unnoticed by all bar a few legal practitioners. The media are uninterested – they cannot name or photograph the parties and there are absolutely no celebrities,
Continue reading →(They Long to be) Close to EU.
Just like me, they long to be close to you.
Why do stars fall down from the sky, ev’ry time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be close to you.
Let the pantomime
Continue reading →The Presumption of Innocence.
There was a howl of outrage when it appeared that the Presumption of Innocence had been suspended for those individuals with a penchant for strapping explosives around their waist and ensuring that the police had a neat pile
Continue reading →‘Saint’ Bernard Hogan-Howe safe – but is he a ‘Pussyfoot’?
I have always been of the opinion that the age of ‘Savilisation’, a term I invented and now proudly watch as it propagates through the media, was a perfect storm of tensions between the media, the
Continue reading →Not yet ‘Settle’d.
Mark Watts was busy picking the cherries out of the Operation Vincente review conducted by Deputy Chief Constable James Vaughan of Dorset Police.
Met was right to interview Lord Brittan over rape – review.
Continue reading →Re S (Children)
Case No: B4/2015/0191 & 0192
Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWCA Civ 83
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE DISTRICT
Continue reading →Dignity and Depravity.
A thought has been buzzing around in my head for some time now – you’ll just have to bear with me. Nothing else will get written until I rid my brain of
Continue reading →Necro-nonce© policing and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
Every single working day of the past year; every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – and come to that – most Saturdays for good measure, a senior and specially trained police officer of the gender requested by
Continue reading →Bridge on the River Kwai.
And before the pedants point it out – it was actually about 200 miles East of the Kwai. I wasn’t going to waste the headline though!
In Pattaya, that den of iniquity, the denizens of antiquity
Continue reading →Rough Kids – Rough Love.
It was a stroke of genius, ten years ago, for Ms Camila Batmanghelidjh to invite documentary maker, Lynn Alleyway, into her multi-coloured harem to film her charitable work with underprivileged kids – ‘Tough Kids – Tough Love‘. It
Continue reading →Surrey Police and Lynne Owens.
If Surrey Police appear at times to have a symbiotic relationship with the Metropolitan Police, it could date back to the days when districts like Epsom, Elmbridge and Reigate were the province of the Metropolitan Police, and were
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