Touching Tales?

There should be no anonymity either for adult accusers or for the adult accused. Philip Young, Norman Macksoni, Dean Hamilton, Connor Sanderson Doyle, Richard Wilkins and Mohammed Hassan are innocent until proven guilty of any offence against Joanne Young. I have been right about Cardinal Pell, Julian Assange, Alex Salmond, Ched Evans, and the victims of Freya Heath, whose conviction was merely set aside on a procedural technicality. I disliked Russell Brand when that got me abused hysterically by those of my contemporaries who thought that Blairite politics made them the cool kids, and who have never grown up to this day, even if they have changed their tune on him. But I point out, as I always have, that he has never been convicted of anything. It took long enough to charge him.

While I am sure that I could stand no more than a few seconds in the company of Andrew Tate, I cannot imagine that the United States would allow a white liberal American citizen to be treated as he has been. You need a visa to work in Spain or France these days, and Mason Greenwood secured them to enable him to be loaned to Getafe and then signed to Marseille, so that recording was provenly false. For the second time, in fact, since if it had been genuine, then the Crown Prosecution Service would have proceeded with what would therefore have been an open-and-shut case against him.

This has nothing to do with liking anyone. The beatification will presumably be the occasion of a Papal Visit to Australia, but if possible I shall be in Rome for Cardinal Pell's canonisation. To have kept Assange's work going, then I would have died in his stead. While I am opposed to the marrow of my bones to the political cause to which Salmond devoted his life, I expect that he and I would have got on. But I doubt that Evans or Greenwood and I would find much to talk about. I know that Heath's victims and I would have more than enough for a very heated discussion. I have already said what I thought of Tate and of who Brand used to be, as he himself broadly says these days.

But like the Epstein Files, the assailants of Gisèle Pelicot exemplify an inferior and unassimilable culture with no respect for women and with endemic predation on young girls. It remains to be seen whether provincial Toryland is another such. If so, then that is parallel societies for you. Successive Governments have allowed them to fester.