The indefatigable Sean O’ Neill Times £ has elicited the information that New Zealander Dame Lowell Goddard, hired to investigate British failure to investigate sexual abuse in British institutions, has so far this year spent
Waiting for Goddard – Part 263.
Parliament reviews Investigations into Child Sex Abuse.
Lord Lexden, who used to be Alistair Cooke, a fine author and researcher before acquiring his ermine robes, rose to speak in the House of Lords on Friday.
He paid homage to Carolyn Hoyle
Continue reading →Determinative Labelism.
New Scientist journalist John Hoyland coined the term ‘nominative determinism’ to describe the alchemy by which some people seem to be drawn to their jobs by virtue of their birth name. Though given that most surnames
The ‘Voices’ begging to be heard?
Oft’ times, when I am struggling to resolve opposing opinions, I will stare out the window
Continue reading →Victims and Survivors.
Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…
It was 200 years
Continue reading →Slater & Gordon – ‘Ouch’ edition.
Last April, one of those little noticed tweeks to regulatory matters, brought in by the Government without publicity, was made to the rules surrounding court costs:
(1) Orders for costs made against the
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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 →Janner and the Henriques Report.
Sir Richard Henriques has produced an exhaustive report describing the minutiae of every decision made in respect of Granville Janner.
The main stream Media has reduced those 47 pages to:
“Lord Janner: CPS
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Nothing New Under the Sun…
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
King James Bible Job 11:1 – 20.
There is much
Continue reading →Discerning Light and Darkness in the Twilight World.
The Twilight World, that chamber of horrors complete with trick mirrors distorting reality, and ghostly shrieks from memories past, that some unfortunate individuals are forced to dwell in towards the end of their days.
It is
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