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Iain Shepherd @lainshep.bsky.social

1 day ago

I was always a bit sus of that story it seemed very designed-to-go-viral in British classist society

Just found this retrospective from 2012: web.archive.org/web/20190423...

This piece appeared in Press Gazette magazine two years ago. We republish it here after the issue of a paediatrician wrongly being attacked in the wake of a 2000 News of the World campaign reared its ...

A tale told too much - the paediatrician vigilantes - Press Gazette

This piece appeared in Press Gazette magazine two years ago. We republish it here after the issue of a paediatrician wrongly being attacked in the wake of a 2000 News of the World campaign reared its ...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social

1 day ago

It's good to be suspect.

But then I see that piece was written by Brendan O'Neill and that makes me think it was true all along!

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    Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social

    1 day ago

    That's this Brendan

    www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10...

    The anti-Savile campaign reveals that huge swathes of respectable Britain like nothing better than to get a kick through pursuing a paedophile panic.

    Savile-savaging reveals Britain's medieval mindset

    The anti-Savile campaign reveals that huge swathes of respectable Britain like nothing better than to get a kick through pursuing a paedophile panic.

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