The degrading meltdown surrounding the Jimmy Savile scandal has been one of the more disturbing developments in British society. No one would defend Savile, but the raking over of cheeseball entertainers' personal life was downright weird. Inevitably, this lead to an emboldened renewal for further attacks on parental autonomy. So much so that the disgraceful Cleveland Scandal in 1987 was disgracefully back in the news as a 'maybe they were right all along' question. This was my trenchant opposition to rewriting the Cleveland Scandal.
There was a quirky news item in the Guardian around the same time on MPs refusing to take a nightbus home. It was written in those 'pithy', 'modern-life-is-rubbish' style that has a self satisfied 'that's telling 'em!' tone. My dismissal of the petitbourgeois misanthropes can be found here. Finally for this round up, I take a pot shot at metropolitans who use immigrants as a way of 'showing up' native white working class for being 'ignorant' and 'racist'. You can find that piece here.
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