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Yewtree Unplugged.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 6, 2013

Whoever named the Police trawling operation in the wake of the Savile allegations â€™Operation Yewtree’ had a sense of humour. The Yewtree is famous for its slow growth and longevity, and its raucously attractive fruit which appeals to little birdies – but contains

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The Way We Were.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 5, 2013

I was nearly tempted out of my sick bed by a chance reading of a Guardian piece which claimed to have uncovered 43,00 – that’s forty three thousand in case you glossed over the figures – cases of child abuse in a 21

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The Media and Propaganda.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 15, 2013

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

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Secret Trials and Uncorroborated Witnesses.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 13, 2013

“If 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

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Nonce Sense.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 11, 2013

I am indebted to my commentator, DtP, for suggesting the title – superb! Wish I had thought of it myself.

First the Yewtree report. This long awaited £450,000 worth of expensive police time has succeeded in uniting

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 11, 2013

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

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Child Abuse.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 7, 2013

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

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The pic n’ mix Pollard Report.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 19, 2012

Along with several other interested parties, I have spent the afternoon digesting the Pollard report on whether the Newsnight ‘Savile’ programme was pulled from the transmission schedule because of ‘pressure from above’ or not.

Watching Twitter on the subject, the

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Exclusive – A Panoramic View from the BBC.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 17, 2012

Pan·o·ram·a (pn-rm, -räm) n.

1. An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.

2. A comprehensive presentation; a survey.

 

Feudal dynasties will lock horns tonight. Old scores will be settled between those with limitless pockets. Panorama

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Fanning the flames in the Ethical Vacuum.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 30, 2012

‘It’s all the fault of the Internet’, cries the dead tree press. ‘We have to compete with them, and their wild landscape, and that has driven us to excesses we would never have thought of without their insane ramblings’.

Remarkable

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Updated! – Trial by Posthumous Innuendo.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 22, 2012

Following last night’s episode of ‘Exposure’, the prosecution’s case for the demonisation of Jimmy Savile was completed in the sense that the audience have been invited to give their verdict. No doubt if we fail to give the required verdict, the

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Eight.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 20, 2012

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy – this entire shebang grows more bizzarre by the hour, if not by the minute.

Overnight, a woman called Andrea Davison has emerged to claim that she was also at Duncroft, and there she

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The British Broadcasting Corporation – a Monument to Paedophilia.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 16, 2012

In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corporation, pride of the British people, commissioned the architect Lieutenant Colonel G. Val Myer, to design a building as their corporate headquarters which would embody the spirit of the organisation as they pushed their version of

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The Bureau for Instigative Churnalism.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 12, 2012

in·sti·gate  (nst-gt)

tr.v. in·sti·gat·ed, in·sti·gat·ing, in·sti·gates

1. To urge on; goad.

2. To stir up; foment.

It is said that success has many Fathers whilst failure is an orphan – surely no foundling was so swiftly denounced as ‘no son of mine’ than the  grandiosely named Bureau

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News-shite, and the perfect storm.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 10, 2012

When Peter Rippon made the fateful decision not to allow broadcast of Meirion Jones’ documentary on the alleged sexual abuse of girls at the Approved School headed by his aunt, it was the first full bodied drop of rain in what

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Seven.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 31, 2012

Evening all; pull up a chair and pin your ears back.

I have, this evening, had a long talk with Miss Margaret Jones, headmistress of Duncroft for many years. It was almost 50 years since we had spoken

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Six.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 29, 2012

The opening sequence of the Panorama film featuring the alleged sexual abuse of children at Duncroft lingered on a huge and imposing set of Victorian iron gates.  Half open, they conjured up an image of a peek inside a forbidden and

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Five.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 26, 2012

Perhaps we should be renaming the BBC; instead of the friendly â€™Aunty Beeb’ conjuring up a safe pair of trustworthy womanly hands, would ‘Uncle Beeb’ with all the connotations of the furtive, fiddling Uncle, whose lap you avoid sitting on, be more suitable? It

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Four.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 24, 2012

First some corrections from yesterday – I was very tired and didn’t proof read properly; dining is spelt dining, not dinning; I’m has got an m after the apostrophe; I was 16 and coming up to my 17th birthday

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Three.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 23, 2012

Duncroft! I never thought I would hear that name again – and suddenly it is on everybody’s lips! It is nearly 50 years ago that the car I was in drew up outside that familiar facade and I prepared to enter yet another

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Two

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by Anna Raccoon on October 22, 2012

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 loved home

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part One.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 21, 2012

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 publish.

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Paws for Thought.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 18, 2012

THAT is one very full inbox…

I am touched, genuinely. I had thought that putting up a jokey message in place of the blog would reassure you that I was OK, and just taking a rest. I underestimated how many of you

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Why can’t the English be more like the French?

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by Anna Raccoon on July 23, 2012

I’ve 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 ‘Joker’ costumes, and fake fire arms being carried into

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So who do we trust now?

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by Anna Raccoon on June 28, 2012

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

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Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleon

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by Anna Raccoon on June 23, 2012

18 months ago, I was forced to retract a story on this site. That hurt; I am well known for careful research. I hadn’t written the story myself, Andrew Withers had done that, and within hours

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76 Arrests led the big ‘invade’…

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by Anna Raccoon on June 15, 2012

Seventy six a-rrests led the big ‘invade’,

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

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News of the World Disinterred

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by Anna Raccoon on February 13, 2012

Is there any reputation so putrid, so tarnished, that it cannot be further damaged? Gordon Brown excepted, I suspect not.

A boulder has been pushed away from the cave into which the poor old News of

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The Moving Target

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by Anna Raccoon on December 13, 2011

I make no apology for reposting an entry from 2009. I said at the time it was a classic Bear Trap – and so it has come to pass – The government that didn’t have the spine

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Past Lives and the NHS.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 11, 2011

I posted yesterday on the different attitude between France and the UK to families being present in a hospital and helping nurse their relatives. I hadn’t appreciated until the comments started coming in – and a couple

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