Gambo, you are the quarry!
What a bloody country.
"If we was smart we'd emigrate..."
"What I want to suggest is most emphatically not that the problem of paedophilia does not exist, but that as a society we have become unhealthily obsessed by it. A kind of madness is gripping our age: I felt that as I pictured the terrified Bijan Ebrahimi, the crowd chanting “paedo, paedo” outside his flat, and nobody daring to try to protect him. And this in my own country.
"It has reached a stage when (as a friend ruefully observed recently) “I caught, without context, the name of a once-well-known 20th-century broadcaster on the news the other day, and found myself thinking: “Dead or Yew Tree?” I worry nowadays even about smiling at children on trains."
Matthew Parris writing in The Times today on our new witch hunts and witch trials.
Parris's article must have been filed before he heard about Gambaccini, but sadly, in our current climate of hysteria, would be apposite any day it was published.
Parris's article must have been filed before he heard about Gambaccini, but sadly, in our current climate of hysteria, would be apposite any day it was published.
PS The Sun is currently being seriously outshat in the tabloid sheer shittiness stakes by the Daily Express's racist "Crusade" against Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants.


And how did The sun get this information?
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