Showing posts with label Jimmy Savile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimmy Savile. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

The Joy of Six 1049

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"Some people believe that support for the war comes out of the propaganda itself. In a way, this is true, of course. But why do people ...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Leyton Buzzards: Saturday Night (Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees)

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The BBC's repeat of Top of the Pops from 1982 - or at least of those episodes that have not been Yewtreed - is one of the highlights o...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Dame Janet Smith on Jimmy Savile and the BBC

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Embed from Getty Images If the subject matter of Dame Janet Smith's report into Jimmy Savile and the BBC were not so serious, ...
Sunday, October 04, 2015

The Clash: Janie Jones

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 Last week, when I chose Rooftop Singing by New World, I quoted a site that said: The pop group New World were tried at the Old Bailey ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Six of the Best 529

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Never mind the increase in tuition fees: more students than ever from poor backgrounds are going to university. Or are they? Peter Horrock...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Six of the Best 518

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Why did the pollsters get it so wrong at the general election? A special extended edition of the Polling Matters podcast tries to find ou...
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Sunday, March 08, 2015

The BBC, Jimmy Savile and other child abusers

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View image | gettyimages.com In his Observer column today Nick Cohen writes about the scandal of the BBC's sacking of Meirio...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

What prevented the press from exposing Jimmy Savile's crimes

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Former Sunday Mirror editor Paul Connew explains on The Drum: It was a disastrous combination of Britain’s draconian libel laws (generall...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Abuse inquiry into former Leicestershire home for sick children

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Last summer there was an investigation into an allegation that Jimmy Savile had abused a child at Roecliffe Manor , a convalescent home at W...
Thursday, September 04, 2014

Six of the Best 462

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Iain Brodie-Brown says the Liberal Democrats should rethink their post-election strategy: be prepared to enter a confidence-and-supply ar...
Monday, August 18, 2014

New light on Peter Righton

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Tom Bateman's story on the BBC News site: Paedophile Peter Righton advised Home Office on policy gives me a reason for writing about a ...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

The BBC, Jimmy Savile and Cliff Richard

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In view of the BBC's enthusiasm for live broadcasting the police search of Cliff Richard's flat, it is worth reminding ourselves of ...
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Jimmy Savile at Woodhouse Eaves

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One of the many institutions that have been linked with Jimmy Savile is the former Roecliffe Manor Children’s Convalescent Home at Woodhouse...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Six of the Best 439

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George Potter explains, on Liberal Democrat Voice , why he has signed the LibDems4Change petition - and sets off a long comments thread. ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

John Hemming on preventing child abuse scandals

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An interview from last night's Channel 4 News.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Savile

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An interesting story from this morning's Independent : Senior Whitehall mandarins repeatedly warned former Prime Minister Margaret Tha...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Craig Murray on Haute de la Garenne

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Craig Murray wrote on his blog last year: I receive, constantly, emails from people wishing me to take up various cases on my blog and fu...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary behaves better than the BBC over Savile

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Sir Peter Fahy's report for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary on how much police knew about Savile before he was exposed a...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Six of the Best 325

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The Liberal Democrats have not responded adequately to the allegations against Chris Rennard, argues Stephen Tall on Liberal Democrat Voic...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

BBC Inside Out South West on Jersey child abuse

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The Jersey blogger Voice for Children has posted a video of this week's BBC South West documentary about the investigation into child...