Lies, damned lies, and....

....the Metro. The headline story in this morning's issue of London's main free daily paper screamed 'Paedophile 'child expert' at the Home Office'. Today's big breaking news, obviously? Well, not exactly. In fact, not at all. The story referred to a person who wrote reports on reform of childcare in the 1970s and 1980s, who has been dead for seven years, and whose only conviction, or, at least, the only one mentioned in the report, was a fine for possession of 'child pornography' - in itself a catchall phrase that seems to be able to include any picture of a child at all, including fully clothed pictures of related children, if it suits the authorities' purposes for use as 'circumstantial evidence' - in 1992. The story, if it deserves to be dignified by that word at all, is another 'historical sex abuse' allegation, against someone who is conveniently dead and can't defend themselves, dressed up as though the world's most despised underclass have infiltrated government circles right now. A nice, easy, free kick at the softest of soft targets once more, to distract attention from the failings and inadequacies of the paper's political bedfellows. Because the Metro is published by the same shower of reactionary, fascistic liars that publishes the Daily Mail. That says all you need to know, as far as I'm concerned.

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B