Jimmy Saville is still alive...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/02/stuart-hall-5-live-instruct-sex

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/how-i-exposed-stuart-halls-sex-abuse-yasmin-alibhaibrown-on-the-letter-that-kickstarted-the-investigation-8601517.html

I'm pretty sure when I read that article yesterday there was a reference to an MP who is now a peer who was allegedly his accomplice. Presumably that's now been removed for legal reasons.

So Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is good for something after all then

we're currently watching a celebrity edition of pointless and i can't help wondering which contestants will end up in custody

― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:26 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the chuckle brothers are on this one

Tarby arrested...

oh sigh

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?

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.

xp Many of them are light entertainment TV figures from the 70s/80s.

Will the DM highlight ITV wrt Tarby?

Unlikely.

Should have a sweepstake on whose next, bagsy Paul Daniels

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?

Will the DM highlight a photo of Thatcher with Tarby?

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?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9764387/Paul-Daniels-admits-he-cannot-be-sure-all-his-groupies-were-over-16.html

“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.”

vile, vile bastard

can anyone among us truly be sure that they haven't abused children??? truly???

i am thoroughly sure i have never fucked a child

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

... either that or just Thatcher's famous friends and supporters

Charles Moore gets defensive in the Spectator
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJwEpwvCMAEr_7h.jpg:large

Well yeah, it's a war on the culture which apparently allowed the widespread abuse of vulnerable children.

Ooooh, *culture war*. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Charles Moore: The Parvenu Fucktard.

http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13604/ uh

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

was going to respond to that shite but if i do that they win

That article's some Littlejohnesque bullshit. I genuinely don't believe I just read that.

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

i mean aaargggggh

She is a pretty well respected feminist lawyer aiui but also a crazy libertarian.

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.

Not like spiked online to publish odious reactionary bullshit on some flimsy libertarian pretext

'male rape'

sun, daily mail et al called it "gay rape" which ugh

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.

she's using a lot of words to effectively say "decriminalise rape"

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.

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

terrifying

which one is the real one

The one doing the inappropriate touching.

If his lawyer was smart, he'd get the waxwork to take the rap.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67706000/jpg/_67706221_rolfharrisbristolhippodrome9837_full.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/postcards/pres.shtml

Master Bates

Sadly the form to send a postcard to a friend no longer works ;_;

the fates of those 90s presenters hang on shoogly pegs

How exactly has S**** B**** has managed to keep out of the hands of the rozzers though?