Wednesday, 10 October 2012

As It Happens

I am the author of Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory, Chapter Ten of which includes the most comprehensive study ever published of the indulgence of the sexual abuse of adolescents by the liberal wing of the British Establishment in the 1970s and 1980s.

I therefore volunteer to be the Independent Chairman of the BBC's inquiry into its handling of Jimmy Savile.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10 October 2012 at 20:26

    You were saying that Savile was innocent as recently as 02/10/12 http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-savile-row.html

    If appointed to the inquiry will you only be judging the conduct of the BBC's handling of the situation from 03/10/12 onwards?

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  2. David Lindsay10 October 2012 at 20:28

    I said that if he was guilty, then so was, for example, Esther Rantzen. That would remain my line, and it now appears to be the BBC's own.

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  3. Anonymous10 October 2012 at 20:36

    Who is it going to be instead? Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt, whoever spiked Martin Beckford's Telegraph story on them, Peter Tatchell, whoever published his pro-paedophile letter to the Guardian, David Cameron who offered Tatchell a peerage, Tom O’Carroll, whoever set his book for Cambridge criminology postgrads, Judge Peter Thornton QC, Stephen Fry, someone from Channel 4, Germaine Greer, Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman, Geoffrey Robertson QC, Kathy Lette, Roman Polanski or one of his supporters, a purveyor of Internet pornography, a supporter of the war to defend pederasts in Afghanistan, a Director of Social Services who ran homes that were basically brothels, a Chief Constable who has stopped enforcing the age of consent from 13 upwards, or who exactly?

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  4. David Lindsay10 October 2012 at 20:44

    Quite.

    Someone from the Constabulary, the Crown Prosecution Service or the Social Services Department in Rochdale, perhaps?

    Or Damian Thompson, to convict Sir Jimmy (for so he remains) of having been Northern, common, beloved of the plebs, and accordingly into girls, unlike dear, sweet, daaahhhling old Fr Kit Cunningham?

    This post was originally half in jest. But I really am starting to wonder. In this as in several other fields, no one else ever has published anything approaching my work, a fact which I find as shocking as anyone else does.

    So, who is going to be this Independent Chairman? And why?

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