October, 2012

How I know Jimmy Saville was a paedophile

1. I was listening to Joe Duffy’s Liveline programme on RTÉ just now and I heard Dickie Rock – remember him? – say that it was strange Jimmy Saville never got married. Good point, Dickie. Didn’t even get married once.  Creepy.  Know what I mean?2. Paul Gambuccini was on the telly yesterday and he said it […]

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How I know Jimmy Saville was a paedophile

1. I was listening to Joe Duffy’s Liveline programme on RTÉ just now and I heard Dickie Rock – remember him? – say that it was strange Jimmy Saville never got married. Good point, Dickie. Didn’t even get married once.  Creepy.  Know what I mean?2. Paul Gambuccini was on the telly yesterday and he said it […]

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Young people – bunch of wasters. Right?

There was a brouhaha a few weeks ago that some MLAs were going to visit ‘Communist Cuba’ to look at their health system, which by all accounts is exemplary. The thinking behind the objection was, of course, that by admitting that a (vaguely) Communist system might produce something good would by implication suggest that capitalism […]

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Young people – bunch of wasters. Right?

There was a brouhaha a few weeks ago that some MLAs were going to visit ‘Communist Cuba’ to look at their health system, which by all accounts is exemplary. The thinking behind the objection was, of course, that by admitting that a (vaguely) Communist system might produce something good would by implication suggest that capitalism […]

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