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Why Ms Raccoon is howling at the biggest moon since the year she was born and taking no prisoners.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 15, 2016

Other than a couple of days last week, I have been in hospital for the past three weeks. First Sepsis, then the effects of the attempts to cure me of that. I am now the original Christmas Turkey –

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Feeding Time at the Legal Zoo.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 24, 2016

It started with a lie; a false allegation; a mendacity, a calumny, a canard. However you dress it up, it simply wasn’t true.

40 year-old Georgina Ray decided that the only possible reason

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The Savile Memorial Celebrations…

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by Anna Raccoon on February 26, 2016

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

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The Divine Ms Raccoon’s Annual Beanfeast….

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by Anna Raccoon on November 2, 2015

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 Guy Fawkes

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Collateral Damage.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 17, 2015

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

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Class and the Common Girl.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 23, 2015

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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*Exclusive* – Mandatory Reporting and Meirion Jones.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 16, 2015

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 regarding those children. He

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*Exclusive* – Mandatory Reporting and Meirion Jones.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 1, 2015

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

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Class and the Common Girl.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 29, 2015

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

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Starr Wars.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 24, 2015

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, whilst

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Savell on Savile.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 29, 2015

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 notable as much for what they don’t

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Grim Fairy Tales…The Savile Allegations.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 5, 2015

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

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The Buried Truth? – More Savile allegations.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 4, 2015

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 media version.

“Henshaws

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Black, White, and Fifty Shades of Grey.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2015

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 breakfast when I penned

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Innocent until Proven Dead; and the secrets you will never know.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 26, 2015

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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Duncroft – the Finale. Part One.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 30, 2014

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

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On Ascending to Insanity and Shrimpton Fishing.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 26, 2014

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 with

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Nothing for victims: The £3million left in Jimmy Savile's estate will be spent on lawyers.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 9, 2014

  • 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 victimsÂ
  • 58 damages claims have been considered
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Savile – the Mail on Sunday Investigation continues…

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by Anna Raccoon on November 2, 2014

  • 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 questionable  Â
  • Woman was a
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Savile – the Mail on Sunday Investigation.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 19, 2014

How Savile’s niece’s demand for compensation led to police fraud probe: Her own daughter says story is false…how many more of the 211 claims for vast payments will police investigate?
  • Caroline Robinson claimed great-uncle Savile
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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Two

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by Anna Raccoon on September 11, 2014

Where was I? Oh, yes, Cumberlow Lodge, South Norwood. Politely described as a ‘children’s home’ – no doubt to honour the strictures of the will of the Victorian philanthropist, W E Stanley, who had left his much

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part One.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 10, 2014

The blog post that won’t go away is still bouncing around in my head; the Sunday newspapers today have further infuriated me – and after long talks with Mr G, I have made the decision to

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Not Even Whispered It Softly?

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by Anna Raccoon on June 4, 2014

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence”. Leonardo da Vinci.

Post-Leveson, the Dead Tree Press has been keen to show that, unregulated, they can expose much wrong doing in our world that could protect

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Grayling Spawns Again – more Cod.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 9, 2014

Inmates place their bets on the unscathed survival of the latest pupil at Grayling’s ‘School for Scandal’.

The Criminal Justice Bill has attracted a lot of attention – not least because of the provisions to

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Exclusive – The Origins of Savilisation – Part Four.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 2, 2014

Once the older girls had moved onto Norman Lodge, and Susan was back in her dormitory, she wrote to Savile – a ‘come back all is forgiven’ letter in her words, there no longer seemed any reason why

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Exclusive – The Origins of Savilisation – Part Three.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 1, 2014

Another afternoon, and the boredom of Duncroft was relieved by a coach turning up (Wot! Still no Rolls Royce? You’ll never get the media to publish this!) – a rather special coach with tables between pairs of facing

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Exclusive – The Origins of Savilisation – Part Two.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 30, 2014

When Susan returned to Duncroft, she gave the records to Ms Jones, the head mistress. She found herself closely questioned about this meeting with a celebrity from the music business – she had, after all, had some previous

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Exclusive – The Origins of Savilisation – Part One

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by Anna Raccoon on April 29, 2014

There it is. Evendon’s Lane, Wokingham. ‘X’ marks the spot. I have finally nailed down the origins of the ‘Savile was a monster’ legend – the greatest media hype this century.Â

Today

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Left Foot in the Circle…

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by Anna Raccoon on March 15, 2014

One of the more curious aspects of the silence maintained by the vociferous voices we now hear shouting about Governmental inactivity and  suppression of ‘facts’ to the detriment of ‘vulnerable victims’, is the preponderance of them that appear

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"Nineteen and a big Doughnut….."

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by Anna Raccoon on March 5, 2014

Morning folks!

Back from my hols, and fully refreshed, so it is back to work.

A lot has happened over the past week, and I have been busy researching in England. Let

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