very good except for this:
"All three institutions – police, press, politicians – had been found wanting through the Jimmy Savile scandal."
there is or was no "Jimmy Savile scandal".
Just 100s of claims, not one proved or disproved. No investigation.
That's the real scandal that has been left on file..a complete and utter fantasy (because there has been no proof presented) that has enabled 100s of people to claim compensation on a claim alone.
And that is a scandal..no crime has been proved..no crime has ever been established because there has been investigation and yet the Criminal Compensation Board and the BBC have paid out a fortune (let alone Savile's charity destined estate being gobbled up by lawyers and claimants) to those who just made a claim..probably filled in a form.
They cannot see the forest for the trees. The sheer simplicity and ease of how the alleged
"Jimmy Savile scandal" unfolded without a scintilla of proof enabled 'Nick' to happen.
How can police be found "wanting" re Savile when there may not have been anything there to begin with. This is an artifcially created "wanting" (quite aside from whatever the truth about Savile is). It's like trying to clutch jelly.
It's become a sort of bench mark and test for so much yet..nothing proved? Tell me that is sane
## Also I am thoroughly pissed off now as I have 3 historic crimes committed upon me..one as serious as it gets *(including attempted murder) reported and looked at by police..never a word about compensation..didn't even know it existed.
Especially now confirmed by an ophthalmic surgeon that almost blindness in one ey can be attributed to "probable physical trauma" some decades ago.
I've always wondered how history will see this maybe in 100 years.
The Salem Witch trials were believed long after they stopped. Some still believe witches and the devil abound.
# of course..up to one million people were murdered and several million displaced and a country destroyed on "claims" of WMD and really, no-one bats an eyelid these days.
## Not only that- the victims of our mendacity ( my very favourite Iraqi grocer returned to Iraq when the war supposedly finished to try and set up a business..his family have never heard from him again)...refugees fleeing the wars we created are demonised.
### After WW2 we were far more sympathetic to refugees who fled the horrors of a destroed Europe...now we castigate the ones we helped create. Go figure..
#### More examples of JK's claim humanity is possibly on the way out. Aliens are viewing this planet from afar and thinking..
"isn't it such a beautiful little planet..all we have to do is wait till they all wipe each other out..and them move in"
And this:
"Tom Watson had played a prominent role in holding newspapers and police to account through the phone-hacking scandal. In 2011 he questioned James Murdoch and afterwards likened him to a mafia boss." ...is why Tom Watson can kiss his poltical career goodbye. Revenge served cold etc