Jimmy Saville is still alive...

Not a mid 90s reference AFAIK, just an example of the kind of bizarre stuff Savile would have written on his sweatshirts.

I'd like to kill Jimmy Savile

... from 1978

I read the comments thread under there. Why did I do that?

lol @

No wonder his career was over by 1980.

so DLT, Rolf Harris and Ken Barlow are all in court today. wtf.

Dave Lee Travis described as 'opportunist' sex offender
Rolf Harris denies 12 indecent assault charges
Coronation Street's William Roache on trial not Ken Barlow, jury told

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/14/dave-lee-travis-trial-fame-target-vulnerable-young-women

Grimly banal:

"Another incident took place in Travis's dressing room as he appeared in a pantomime in Crawley in 1991, the court heard, when the DJ pinned a woman up against the door before shoving his hand down her jogging bottoms.

The assault lasted a matter of seconds, the jury was told, before Travis was interrupted by one of the Chuckle Brothers walking past his dressing room."

Roache 'sent autograph after attack'

Just noticed the three news stories mentioned by snoball on the Guardian's (website) front page. Feels quite ... I dunno ... perhaps anagram nailed it with wtf.

dunno what his defence case is like but this dlt trial is all sorts of horrible

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