You see them everywhere, representatives of the NSPCC. You hear them on the adverts during afternoon TV; they are on the breakfast sofaâs opining on the latest âterrible outrageâ; they are in the side bar advertisements in
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Zimmerman Framed.
Who knew that Trayvon Martin had morphed from this angelic picture of a 12-year-old into a 6â2â³ 17-year-old body builder? Were there no up to date photographs of him to plaster the country with? No matter, he has
Continue reading →Some positive progress for a changeâ¦
I had not thought when I first put pen to paper on the Savile affair, that it would still be lustily gorging every spare moment of my time months later. I doubt very much that the handful of 70s
Continue reading →Pants!
The Urban Dictionary describes the word âPantsâ thus: Adj. British slang. Not good; total crap; nonsense; rubbish; bad; woefully inadequate; useless; a waste of time and space.
I just thought Iâd mention that before
Continue reading →Putting a Spanner in the Worksâ¦
Back some 20 years ago, when the sun still shone in summer time, and young army lads only got beheaded in foreign places so there was no need for a focus group to tell the Prime Minister
Continue reading →Graham Ovenden and Blind Justice.
Battery Children â Scottish style!
Put a large calendar in front of you this morning as you read this, you will need an efficient reminder that it is NOT April Foolâs Day.
Remember when we were all terribly concerned with
Continue reading →Children in Care.
One of the more curious aspects of âchild careâ by the State, a state of being lauded by those on the left wing, is the utter abruptness with which you become an adult.
In normal life, by which
Continue reading →The Victimal Hierarchy.
Can I pose a question to you? When you go to fill up your car, do you search out the most expensive petrol to buy? No?
Surely you have a moral duty to do so? You
Continue reading →An important advance in Child Protection.
Whilst we were all busy reading the West Yorkshire Police Inquiry Report this morning, which having earnestly reported that it was keen to âseparate myth and rumour from factâ went on to tell us (amidst
Continue reading →The Family Liaison Officer.
I chanced upon a remark in my recent reading that struck me as so callous, so utterly devoid of empathy, that I stopped short. Who had made this remark? A Family Liaison Officer!
As is my wont, I
Continue reading →Pallial Palliations.
When mollusca trawl their glutinous way across our landscape, they have the evolutionary advantage of a third eye to spot potential predators. Itâs called the pallial eye.
I thought Iâd tell you something interesting pertaining to âPallialâ before you all
Continue reading →Is Sickie-Icke Dicky?
SELLING DAVID A PUP.
Itâs been so long for me since I began the stressful and lonely path of âthinking outside of the boxâ in terms of digesting the information I was being fed (and, of
Continue reading →Trawling the Shallows.
The Internet has correctly been concerned at what has been perceived as the loss of a ârightâ. The proposals by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) to refuse to release the names of people they arrest in the
Continue reading →The Great British Whine Industry.
During the week I had recorded an episode of Piers Morganâs interview series. A case of nothing else worth recording really â the others I have seen have been a succession of women agonising over some dreadful trauma in
Continue reading →Savile, Yewtree, and the true victims of child abuse.
The picture editors were busy yesterday. The winsome portrayals of Madeleine McCann, once the picture of choice if the word paedophilia was to be mentioned in the media, were passed over. The aging shots of Jimmy Savile dusted down again, a
Continue reading →The Way We Were.
I was nearly tempted out of my sick bed by a chance reading of a Guardian piece which claimed to have uncovered 43,00 â thatâs forty three thousand in case you glossed over the figures â cases of child abuse in a 21
Continue reading →The Media and Propaganda.
Hollywood has long been a cost free publicity machine. Cost free in the sense that it sold its output and therefore required little or no financial input from those who wished to influence the minds of the general public.
Where
Continue reading →Secret Trials and Uncorroborated Witnesses.
âIf we do not change the way we use this material in court we risk inviting a torrent of new claims. Our enemies will begin to realise that our justice system is an open goal and come
Continue reading →Who Let the Dogs Out?
Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war,
that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.
William Shakespeare
I have been pondering this matter for days now, since
Continue reading →Child Abuse.
I try, I really do try, to get worked up over whether Stuart Hall kissed a 13 year old on the lips 20 years ago. Perhaps it did ruin her entire life. Maybe she was so traumatised
Continue reading →Why canât the English be more like the French?
Iâve been pondering the rash of new regulations over the week-end in the US, a country the UK grows more alike every week.
First the cinema chain AMC banned âJokerâ costumes, and fake fire arms being carried into
Continue reading →So who do we trust now?
Over the past 40 years there has been a systematic erosion of trust in the institutions we were brought up to respect.
The lessons of the Sunday Schools that we absorbed as children were shown by
Continue reading →Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleon
18 months ago, I was forced to retract a story on this site. That hurt; I am well known for careful research. I hadnât written the story myself, Andrew Withers had done that, and within hours
Continue reading →76 Arrests led the big âinvadeââ¦
Seventy six a-rrests led the big âinvadeâ,
With a hundred and ten new laws close at hand,
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest statutory instruments;
The dream of every Fabian hand.
Seventy six
Continue reading →The Moving Target
I make no apology for reposting an entry from 2009. I said at the time it was a classic Bear Trap â and so it has come to pass â The government that didnât have the spine
Continue reading →Hyperventilating Over Paedophilia
Paedophilia is an emotive subject; banned in âpoliteâ media circles, it has become virtually the exclusive province of the Blogosphere.
Every day â as Matt Wardman discovered when he took over
Continue reading →The Ancient Art of Verbal Origami.
The ultimate goal of practitioners of this art is to take perfectly inoffensive words, good deeds, incentives, bright ideas, and through intricate folding of the same words into other sentences, incorporate them into a new sculpture of
Continue reading →Hiding in Plain View.
Sitting in on one of those interminable Social Services conferences, the question of the âsubjectâsâ past mental health came up. âNo, heâd never attempted suicide before, but he had been a counsellor for the Samaritans for many
Continue reading →The Criminal Records Bureau.
A CRB check is now declared essential before you hire a newspaper boy; it is seen as the cure all for every possible risk of child abuse. So ferocious are the checks, so thorough, that even a nurse who
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