Tag: Jimmy Savile

  • Savile’s driver heads to court

    Savile’s driver heads to court

    How can arrest of Ray Teret be anything other than related to the activities of Jimmy Savile?

     

    Jimmy Savile’s driver, Ray “Ugli” Teret, appears in court this morning charged with sex offences against fifteen teenage girls and possessing an indecent image of a child. That police claim this to be “unrelated” to the abuse carried out by the disgraced broadcaster is frankly just odd. (more…)

  • Maximum nonsense

    Maximum nonsense

    Max Clifford’s suggestion that Jimmy Savile is to blame for the case against him is without justification

     

    After appearing at Southwark Crown Court today, Max Clifford announced: “But for Jimmy Savile I wouldn’t be here”. He is wrong. (more…)

  • Courting Corrie

    Courting Corrie

    Actors William Roache and Michael Le Vell in court on the same day

     

    Soaps are meant to be more dramatic than reality. In the case of the nation’s longest running series, however, it’s the personal lives of the actors that have actually become more tawdry. (more…)

  • Plodding communications

    Plodding communications

    Matthew Steeples argues that the detainment of David Miranda again illustrates why a clearer communications strategy is required on the part of the police

     

    David Miranda’s detainment may have been legitimate and he may indeed have been carrying information that could be considered dangerous to Britain. Equally, though, these charges could simply be, as most suspect, trumped up by the Met. The main wrong in this story, however, is the way in which our police and their press departments have handled it. (more…)

  • Berkoff berates the Beeb

    Berkoff berates the Beeb

    Steven Berkoff speaks for millions in comments about the dumbing down of the BBC

     

    Actor and director Steven Berkoff has never been known for mincing his words. That’s why we like him. In his latest comments describing much of what the BBC broadcast as “garbage” and ITV1’s Downton Abbey as featuring “a lot of silly old tarts in costume” he is once again right.

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  • A French farce

    A French farce

    French fashion brand mocks Jimmy Savile’s victims

     

    A French fashion brand bizarrely named Brooklyn We Go Hard has used the former Scottish holiday home of the deceased paedophile Jimmy Savile as the location for one of its photoshoots. (more…)

  • Margaret's mistake

    Margaret's mistake

    As it is revealed that the late Baroness Thatcher attempted to get Jimmy Savile knighted four times, we call for a wholescale review of the British honours system

     

    Today, The Independent revealed that it took the late Margaret Thatcher four attempts to get the late Jimmy Savile knighted. (more…)

  • Margaret’s mistake

    Margaret’s mistake

    As it is revealed that the late Baroness Thatcher attempted to get Jimmy Savile knighted four times, we call for a wholescale review of the British honours system

     

    Today, The Independent revealed that it took the late Margaret Thatcher four attempts to get the late Jimmy Savile knighted. (more…)

  • What an Oddjob

    What an Oddjob

    Bill Oddie defends Rolf Harris

     

    “Personalities” from the 1980s seem to like making odd statements about paedophilia and sexual abuse. First it was William Roache and then came Jim Davidson and Max Clifford. All three have since been arrested and more recently Jeremy Irons and now Bill Oddie have stuck their oars in too.

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  • Send him down

    Send him down

    Stuart Hall’s sentencing must set an example to others

     

    Stuart Hall’s fall will be complete today when he is sentenced at Preston Crown Court in relation to 14 counts of indecent assault. A prison sentence is inevitable and it will be much deserved.

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