A Talking Dog, An Obscene Vegetable

While I always opposed the release of Myra Hindley, I always thought that if she did have to be freed, then that should have been on the day after Lord Longford had died, but not a day before; in the end, she predeceased him. Similarly, while I could not be more strongly opposed to the legalisation of assisted suicide, if that had to be done, then it should be done now that Esther Rantzen was already dead.

Rantzen tried to pull the oldest trick in the manipulator’s book, that of being at death’s door for years on end. It was a fitting end to her life. At least one of her homes was used at least once for the sexual abuse of at least one child, a girl of five, while if you look at the sheer number of media, and especially BBC, figures to have been found to have committed such offences, then it beggars belief that none such was ever reported to Childline. With whom was that Information Exchanged?