Hoodwinked by the Department of Health? Frank Dobson and the 1997 Jimmy Savile report

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[PDF file]: […] review commissioned by Mr Dorrell as follows: or (see s.7.53) 3 or (see s.6.17) 4 or < https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ ashworth-special-hospital-report-of-the-committee-of-inquiry >(s.1.20.0 et seq) 5 ‘There were allegations of drugs finds and a possible child pornography ring . Mr Dorrell ordered an External Management Review of the Hospital to investigate the truth or otherwise of the […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

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[PDF file]: […] National Health Service, acknowledging that there is a case for making it ‘immune from any restructuring of public expenditure’. They also call for the decriminalisation of all drugs, arguing that the ‘price mechanism’ should be relied on instead.2 How far Duncan still adhered to these views after years of austerity is not clear from […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] which was kicking around as a summary of some Brexiteers’ aspirations: a low tax, authoritarian society – Singapore with better golf courses and easier access to the drugs of choice – fit for the rich to live and be serviced in. Lawson provides a link to maps of the proposed freeports in the UK.24 […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] gaze to achieve economic and geopolitical agendas in tandem with the interests of corrupt local elites – especially in the Americas. Illegal funneling of funds, weapons and drugs; covert operations and support in multiple forms to death squads, ruthless dictatorships and the orchestration of multiple coups d’état; networks of torture centres, secret body dumps […]

The view from the bridge

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A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election

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[PDF file]: […] complaint.6 The 1997 NHS report was created at the behest of Mr Dorrell during his time as Health Secretary, following allegations in the national press of ‘ drugs finds and a possible child pornography ring at Broadmoor’.7 Mr Dorrell received the ensuing report in April 1997. Mr Dorrell did not mention the report in […]

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