Jimmy Saville is still alive...

Read this in 'The Captive' by Proust just today, struck a chord:

"Lying, though it is so often deceptive and is the basis of all conversation, conceals less thoroughly a feeling of hostility, or of self-interest, or a visit which one wants to appear not to have paid, or a short-lived escapade with a mistress which one is anxious to keep from one's wife, than a good reputation covers up - to the extent of not letting its existence be guessed - sexual depravity."

Does Proust explore the idea of lying being the basis of all conversation more in this book? Sounds interesting

well a large part of that particular volume is about the narrator's obsession with the lies that he and Albertine, his on-off love person, tell each other other, all the time, and that quote feeds into a larger theme about social duplicity and malice amongst the french aristocracy in times past - conversation in proust is p much always a snakepit of deception, snobbery, stupidity etc., all rendered as v. malcious comedy.

sorry this is a way away from rolf roache & DLT

That quote also stood out for me when I re-read The Captive a couple of months ago, more for the "Lying...is the basis of all conversation" is such a hook.

Awesome how you've quoted it here, comes off as even more savage...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeBwTzzIEAA3qp9.jpg

The phrase "rock and hard place" is not remotely adequate

Irrelevantly, RIP Lord McAlpine. A man of unimpeachable integrity.

So, was there any fire behind the smoke, or was the mistaken identity thing true?

lol or maybe he's faked his death to smoke out more internet libellers... wonder how the law stands on that- can you libel someone you reasonably believe to be dead, if they turn out not to be?

poor janice

On the bright side, Savile clearly not interested.

oh god.
wish i could unsee that picture ..

On the bright side, Savile clearly not interested.

I was going to say that Savile's motto was "as long as it's got a pulse" except it didn't even need that (if rumours are true)

sorry mark!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25917895

Ken Barlow not guilty

So, DLT and Rolf verdicts to come.

KB was a certainty to be not guilty, i would have put money on it. I reckon DLT will be not guilty too, not sure about Rolf

DLT acquitted

no justice

How do you reckon that, exactly?

just being stupid.

seriously though, does the CPS need to take a look itself? That's what the papers will be saying I would guess, though of course it was the same moral panic they created that caused allegations like the DLT/Roache ones to come to court.

Close Shave For Hairy Cornflake

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26322552

Love that the picture looks like it was taken just as they told him.

Quack quack oops.

https://audioboo.fm/boos/602753-quack-quack-oops

given his acquittal for the other offences there might be an argument that the CPS are being willfully stubborn here

Have these unsuccessful cases perhaps been pursued to distract from investigations into police corruption behind Saville's escape from prosecution while he was alive? Just to 'David Peace' it all up, so to speak?

given his acquittal for the other offences there might be an argument that the CPS are being willfully stubborn here

Maybe, yes. They clearly believe they have the evidence to support a prosecution but are maybe still in denial of the power of celebrity in the face of such evidence, even washed up celebrity who was never all that in the first place.

i'm not sure it's about the celebrity only, i've heard lawyers argue that these cases were not strong enough. i think there's a real concern that bringing cases just to be seen to be doing something, or for more nefarious reasons as stevie suggests, is just going to muddy the waters for potential cases with a genuine prospect of conviction in the future

Anyone remember the Times profile of DLT published just before the Yewtree situ blew up? Female interviewer noted that he was "handsy" throughout, and wanted to show her his library of photographs he'd taken of friends' teenaged female daughters. Is behind paywall so I cannot link it.

DLT has a Paywall?

Dave Lee Travis: Look out, Suu Kyi - he's a bit touchy

yup, that's the one.

There’s a half-body sculpture of buttocks, thong and legs near the fridge, opposite a chalk board with “poo bags and Nurofen” written in capitals. Christ.

Hoping those poo bags are for the dog.

poo bags and Nurofen

Rejected line from Dana's 'All Kinds of Everything'.

Tarby walks

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/sinister-jimmy-savile-board-game-6981620#.U0rN0t_VU7Y.twitter

“The instructions suggest it would be harder to finish than Trivial Pursuits,” he said.

“The game’s complexity, and the fact Savile was the biggest sex offender in history, really puts you off from getting the die out...

“I know it’s not like an ouija board that could invoke the spirit of Savile.

“But imagine if this had been a pub quiz board game with Ian Brady’s face on the box?"

keep having to check that this isn't a spoof

'Woman guzzled lager with friends instead of getting help for dying puppy' in the sidebar gave me pause as well

hang on .. the owner is "loaning" it to the museum.

they may want it back at some point !!?

there's a subtext throughout that the owner obviously thinks it'll be worth a few quid when the moral panic's died down

well, yeah.

after all, gary glitter vinyl goes for a fortune these days.

(actually it probably does, but i am not going to check)

keep having to check that this isn't a spoof

I pretty much tossed a coin over whether to post it here or to the shit that looks like an onion article thread

Clifford guilty

Sentenced to eight years.

these cunts are completely loathesome, every aged light entertainment wasteman shuffling to and fro over the last couple of years, wish them nothing but ill, clifford probably the only one deluded enough to self-incriminate but they are all vermin

all this makes me mourn richard whiteley all the keener