Everyday Victim Blaming

challenging institutional disbelief around domestic & sexual violence and abuse

Jimmy Savile

Richard Littlejohn, Jimmy Savile & the Need for an Independent Press Commission

Richard Littlejohn’s most recent post in the Daily Mail is deeply offensive on numerous levels. Supposedly, it is meant to be Littlejohn’s ‘opinion’ on who he would like to win the election on Thursday. It is a truly depressing state of affairs when ‘political debate’ involves insulting statements about the physical appearance of candidates. At […]

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Jimmy Savile – Excuses, Cover-ups and Ignorance.

The information contained in the Jimmy Savile reports will not be a surprise to those who have been following this horrific case. Aside from sexually assaulting women & children who were both patients & staff of NHS facilities, it is clear that he sexually assaulted dead people – after being given unfettered access to the […]

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A Complaint to the BBC on coverage of the trials of Rolf Harris & Stuart Hall

(This was submitted via their online complaints site which has a limited number of characters) You have listed articles on the trials for child sexual violence of Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall and Freddie Starr under the heading of “entertainment”. These are not articles about entertainment. They are about 3 adult men charged with (or pending […]

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A week in journalism is a long time: the reporting of the trial and verdict of Max Clifford

As another high profile trial commences, with jury selection today (Tuesday 6th May 2014) for 12 charges of indecent assault allegedly committed by Rolf Harris, I would hope for better reporting than we have seen of the Max Clifford trial. This piece by Martin Robbins from the New Statesman on Saturday 3rd May, is without […]

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