Cliff Richard is now Barbadian
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Geri
wasn't born to follow
It's just as well the People's Poet is dead. This news would have broken him.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
That has to be a spoof, surely?
That has to be a spoof, surely?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Kerning's all wrong and the typeface looks familiar, but not as a newspaper headline one. I call pixels.That has to be a spoof, surely?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
If you're going to fake up newspaper copy, you need a better set of fonts than just what you get free with Windows, and display typesetting with Word just isn't going to cut the mustard. I use Scribus for my newspaper-faking requirements.For the avoidance of doubt, the actual Herald cover for Saturday 16 August, courtesy the BBC:
Pisstake is pisspoor.
The eyes tell their own story as the window to the soul - some obsessive has catalogued the progressive dying of Cliff from the inisde.
http://cliffricharddyinginside.tumblr.com/
http://cliffricharddyinginside.tumblr.com/
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i was looking through my archives earlier and found a piece from the mirror from 1995, when cr got his knighthood. it mentioned sir james savile obe kcsg recalling an occasion in the mid 1960s when he drove cr to a party 30 miles away. cr tortured the unfortunate savile by singing all the way there.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
from today's sunday times:
Police errors on Sir Cliff sex case
David Leppard, James Gillespieand Marie Woolf Published: 17 August 2014
The BBC filmed the raid from a helicopter which was above Richard’s residence before officers arrived
THE police chief responsible for the child sex investigation into Sir Cliff Richard had ignored official guidelines on the naming of suspects, senior MPs and police sources said yesterday.
David Crompton, chief constable of South Yorkshire police, is facing pressure over his handling of the criminal inquiry which emerged last week after his officers tipped off the BBC about an imminent raid on the singer’s home.
The BBC filmed the raid from a helicopter which was above Richard’s residence before officers arrived.
The star, one of Britain’s most successful recording artists, was furious to learn about the operation in a telephone call from his lawyers.
They called him at his holiday home in Portugal after seeing BBC television pictures of officers arriving to search his £3.1m flat in Sunningdale, Berkshire.
the rest hidden behind pay wall
Police errors on Sir Cliff sex case
David Leppard, James Gillespieand Marie Woolf Published: 17 August 2014
THE police chief responsible for the child sex investigation into Sir Cliff Richard had ignored official guidelines on the naming of suspects, senior MPs and police sources said yesterday.
David Crompton, chief constable of South Yorkshire police, is facing pressure over his handling of the criminal inquiry which emerged last week after his officers tipped off the BBC about an imminent raid on the singer’s home.
The BBC filmed the raid from a helicopter which was above Richard’s residence before officers arrived.
The star, one of Britain’s most successful recording artists, was furious to learn about the operation in a telephone call from his lawyers.
They called him at his holiday home in Portugal after seeing BBC television pictures of officers arriving to search his £3.1m flat in Sunningdale, Berkshire.
the rest hidden behind pay wall
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
The eyes tell their own story as the window to the soul - some obsessive has catalogued the progressive dying of Cliff from the inisde.
http://cliffricharddyinginside.tumblr.com/
Brilliant. If the eyes are truly the windows on the soul, then Cliff's eyes are like a greenhouse full of triffids.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
I don't think this article has been cited before. Geoffrey Robertson does a comprehensive takedown of the police failings. Were they stupidly flying a kite or deliberately trying to sabotage a prosecution?
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
By the by, Robertson's a cunt going on about it being 'a quarter century ago'. The length of time is irrelevant - it's whether he did it or not that counts.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
The Sunday Fail makes some worrying allegations about Aunty. Is this anything to do with MWT?
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
I agree. Some jurisdictions have a statute of limitations for this sort of thing but I think it's right that we don't. Just makes proving it harder, is all.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
That's quite well done. I like this description under a photo.The eyes tell their own story as the window to the soul - some obsessive has catalogued the progressive dying of Cliff from the inisde.
http://cliffricharddyinginside.tumblr.com/
"Cliff Richard:
- Body of an athlete
- Voice of an angel
- Eyes of a corpse"
We are all thinking at the back of our minds that all involved in these events who are still alive will walk away from any charges due to mistakes made in building the investigation or witnesses being proved unreliable.
Proving proceedings are being sabotaged deliberately will be difficult and pointed out as some conspiracy theory. Let us wait and see the way this develops.
Proving proceedings are being sabotaged deliberately will be difficult and pointed out as some conspiracy theory. Let us wait and see the way this develops.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The Mail is enjoying another opportunity to attack the BBC in that article. It still isn't clear how the BBC found out about the investigation - it could have been anyone really, someone in the police tipping them off, or the person who has made the allegation of abuse might have approached the BBC. Who knows, and it'll be interesting to see what comes out of this one.
Apparently someone tipped them off about the raid, and the police confirmed it and cooperated with them. According to (I think) The Telegraph yesterday, could have been the times.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The 'who' is the unknown quantity and it will be very interesting if it turns out that SYP themselves tipped off the BBC, and they'll have to hastily retract what they've said. The pool of people who would have known about the investigation would have been fairly small I'd think, so it narrows down the scope a bit.
ruffneck23
front left
Without wanting to put on a tin foil hat, it does seem that events may make the case collapse before it even gets to court. Deliberate? Possibly but I'm more inclined it being down to police stupidity.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It's starting to look silly isn't it. So the BBC found out somehow about this investigation, contacted SYP. SYP, instead of refusing to confirm anything, and remind the BBC of the risks of prejudicing any potential police investigations, said 'oh yeah, we're raiding his house on this date'. I think SYP might come out of this looking more stupid, going by what is known at the moment.
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