lol ignoramus from the usa here but is this all tangentially related to jimmy saville in some way that i don't understand, some revelations tied to what they discovered w/r/t him?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
What they uncovered seems to be at minimum a culture of looking the other way at the national broadcaster, and at worse a sustained culture of grooming within said broadcaster.
Tarby was at a different network though, so it looks like the inquiry has moved onto a stage where they are more looking at whether tv celebrities during the 70s as a whole were exploiting their fame to rape kids and taking overlooked victims' claims seriously, finally, nearly 40 years on.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
xp Many of them are light entertainment TV figures from the 70s/80s.
― Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
Will the DM highlight ITV wrt Tarby?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:04 (ten years ago) link
Unlikely.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:34 (ten years ago) link
Should have a sweepstake on whose next, bagsy Paul Daniels
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
Didn't Paul Daniels already come out with some kind of weird defensive "I slept with loads of women but I don't THINK any of them were underage" statement just after Savillegate kicked off?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
Will the DM highlight a photo of Thatcher with Tarby?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9764387/Paul-Daniels-admits-he-cannot-be-sure-all-his-groupies-were-over-16.html
― you say potatooles (onimo), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:14 (ten years ago) link
“Life back then was a blur, and therein lies a major problem with what is going on now.“It was 35-40 years ago. How the hell can you say you did or you didn't?“Anyone can come along and claim to have been ‘abused’ by anyone they care to name.”
“It was 35-40 years ago. How the hell can you say you did or you didn't?
“Anyone can come along and claim to have been ‘abused’ by anyone they care to name.”
vile, vile bastard
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
can anyone among us truly be sure that they haven't abused children??? truly???
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:52 (ten years ago) link
i am thoroughly sure i have never fucked a child
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
what a disgusting piece of shit
probably this should just be a matter of looking up people who were subjects of Louis Theroux documentaries, informing the police accordingly
― Neil S, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
... either that or just Thatcher's famous friends and supporters
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Charles Moore gets defensive in the Spectatorhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJwEpwvCMAEr_7h.jpg:large
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Well yeah, it's a war on the culture which apparently allowed the widespread abuse of vulnerable children.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Ooooh, *culture war*. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Charles Moore: The Parvenu Fucktard.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13604/ uh
― stet, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Now even a deputy speaker of the House of Commons is accused of male rape. This is an unfortunate consequence of the present mania for policing all aspects of personal life under the mantra of ‘child protection’.
uh indeed
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
was going to respond to that shite but if i do that they win
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
That article's some Littlejohnesque bullshit. I genuinely don't believe I just read that.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
let rapists be rapists, just a bit of fun with the lads, no harm in it, now lets all have a spot of tea and forget this nasty business
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
i mean aaargggggh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
She is a pretty well respected feminist lawyer aiui but also a crazy libertarian.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
I like that, coming to the end, you think surely she hasn't got anything else left in the bag of crazy, and then wow.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
Not like spiked online to publish odious reactionary bullshit on some flimsy libertarian pretext
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
'male rape'
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
sun, daily mail et al called it "gay rape" which ugh
― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
Adults and law-enforcement agencies must stop fetishising victimhood. Instead, we should focus on arming today’s youngsters with the savoir-faire and social skills to avoid drifting into compromising situations
Wow fuck you lady.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Thursday, 9 May 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
she's using a lot of words to effectively say "decriminalise rape"
― The Parvenu Fucktard (onimo), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
Museum removes Ken Barlow waxwork A waxwork of Coronation Street's Ken Barlow at Madame Tussauds in Blackpool is removed over fears of it being damaged.
― Mark G, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.5663846.1368447420!/image/90351261.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_595/90351261.jpg
probably the greatest similarity between waxwork and real person i've ever seen
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
terrifying
― ... (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
which one is the real one
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:19 (ten years ago) link
The one doing the inappropriate touching.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:21 (ten years ago) link
If his lawyer was smart, he'd get the waxwork to take the rap.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:24 (ten years ago) link
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67706000/jpg/_67706221_rolfharrisbristolhippodrome9837_full.jpg
― Mark G, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:11 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/postcards/pres.shtml
― Neil S, Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
Master Bates
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Sadly the form to send a postcard to a friend no longer works ;_;
― Neil S, Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
the fates of those 90s presenters hang on shoogly pegs
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
How exactly has S**** B**** has managed to keep out of the hands of the rozzers though?
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 May 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
gave them tragic sob story about partner having cancer and kids being taken away then played "Careless Whisper"
― another sub-standard post from (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
William Roache charged with indecent assault
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for sexually abusing girls.
― Mark G, Monday, 17 June 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
15 *months*? FFS.
― emil.y, Monday, 17 June 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
His barrister Crispin Aylett, in mitigation, told the court the former broadcaster had "all of 13" victims compared to Jimmy Savile's 1,300.
"Please bear in mind m'lud that my client only killed three people and Hitler killed six million..."
― О боже, какой мужчина (ShariVari), Monday, 17 June 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Ian Brady said something very similar, just now.
― Mark G, Monday, 17 June 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
also "over a quarter of a century ago" as if we should all just forget about it. this barrister crispin aylett sounds like a seriously unpleasant piece of shit
― NI, Monday, 17 June 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link