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The sweeper-keeper is redefining soccer’s sense of risk
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Manchester United to vote on selling minority stake to Sir Jim Ratcliffe as Qataris "pull out"
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The fallout from Mozambique’s debt scandal reaches a London court
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Womb transplants are now a life-changing reality. Here’s how the extraordinary procedure works.
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Netflix is testing a game streaming solution in Canada and the UK
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"The Reckoning" - there are some problems
BBC has just put out a 4 part "factual drama" based on Jimmy Savile. It is available here. Steve Coogan plays Savile. Here is the IMDB page for it. For those who don't know, Jimmy Savile was a...
BBC has just put out a 4 part "factual drama" based on Jimmy Savile. It is available here. Steve Coogan plays Savile. Here is the IMDB page for it.
For those who don't know, Jimmy Savile was a live dj, a radio dj, and a tv presenter. He played local dance halls, and then moved to Radio Caroline in 1958 when he was 32, and he moved to BBC TV in 1964 when he was 38. There were allegations made against him right from the start of his dj career, and as time went on these became more and more known among the public, but organisations failed to deal with them and failed to hold him to account. When he died hundreds of people came forward. After extensive police investigations police concluded he was a prolific sex offender, and probably the UK's most prolific sex offender. Wikipedia article about savile, and wikipedia article about the abuse scandal.
Coogan is a great, he's clearly a talented actor and he does pretty well here. The show heavily features a dramatic representation of Savile's biographer, Dan Davies.
The show covers Savile's entire career. It shows changing public perceptions of him, it shows him testing boundaries and getting away with minor rule breaking, it shows the manipulations of power he used to get access to girls.
But there are problems here. There are many complicated reasons why people don't report sexual abuse, and this show fails to do anything but pay minor lip service to those. Biggest for me is the focus entirely on Savile, and not the systems that enabled his abuse. Clearly he is the only person responsible for the abuse, but how did he get away with it so long, why didn't anyone stop him, why did organisations let him continue? There's a mealy-mouthed attempt to explain this, but that's a few lines of dialogue at most. This is important! The question of "How do we stop abusers?" needs a robust, evidence based, approach that doesn't stop at a shrug of the shoulders and "we dunno, he was a master manipulator". He absolutely wasn't, he was just brutally uncaring and wealthy. You come away from this show thinking that organisations were well meaning but a bit clueless, but that wasn't the case. Society just did not care about abuse enough to prevent it from happening, and we need to examine why we allowed it to happen.
Each episode starts by interview survivors, and it's good that their voice is prominent.
The TV drama Three Girls about the Rochdale Grooming scandal is better - it focuses on victims and how they were let down by the system. Or you could watch The Red Riding Trilogy one, two, and three - this is fiction, but features investigations into the Yorkshire Ripper case.
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Premier Rap Battles (UK): Shuffle T vs Harry Baker
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GUNSHIP - Empress of the Damned (feat. Lights) (2023)
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UK's nuclear fusion site (JET) ends experiments after forty years
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Microsoft closes deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard
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Arsenal made Manchester City look mortal. Can Pep Guardiola adapt again?
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Judas Priest - Panic Attack (2023)
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Paddington in Peru films in Colombia – sparking row over legislation in Peru
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Scotland's leader fears for wife's parents 'trapped' in Gaza
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Premier League to test video game-inspired camera angle this weekend
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Sir Curse - Hitchhiker Disco (2023)
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UK PM Rishi Sunak applauded for being openly transphobic in speech
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Pep Guardiola says it would take player uprising to reduce number of matches
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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The making of the Burger King games
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Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous 300 year old Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall
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Real men share the housework: what Britain can learn from the domestic bliss of Scandinavia
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Scottish officials approve UK’s first drug consumption room intended for safer use of illegal drugs
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Do Liverpool have the strength to take on champions who never have an off-day?
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How London lost its place at the heart of Black Britain
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UK government accused of ‘suppressing’ report into safety of modular building
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GUNSHIP - Tech Noir 2 (2023)
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Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82
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UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman says multiculturalism has ‘failed’ in Europe during migration speech
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Chick-fil-A plans UK restaurants opening after previously facing backlash from LGBTQ+ rights activists
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Lord Sugar documents east London’s rubbish mountains
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Rubens & Women review – ‘Naked breasts moved him religiously’
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Dear drivers, steady as you go at 20mph. And welcome to the future.
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation
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More than 1,000 London Metropolitan Police officers suspended or on restricted duties amid force clean-up
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Multiorgan MRI findings after hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK (C-MORE): a prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study
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Women used to be more likely to vote Conservative than men but that all changed in 2017—UK research wants to find out why
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Martin Ødegaard: ‘At Arsenal I've always had this special feeling’
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Why 'The Hobbit' is still underappreciated, eighty-six years later: A Culture Re-View
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær has criticised the behaviour of some players during his time as Manchester United manager, saying they were not as good as they thought they were
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Prince William warns against 'doom and gloom' in eco-debates
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Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
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Is Finland the best place in the world to be a parent – Alexandra Topping travels to Helsinki to find out why the UK pre-school system lags so far behind
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UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure: dating back half a million years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens
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Turmeric could treat indigestion just as well as NHS drugs, study finds
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‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods
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Experiment - Any Tildes users up for a coffee or pint in person? Northern England
Inspired by the recent travel thread of someone asking if people were around for an in person meet up I thought I'd put one up on a more local scale. I'm not sure if ~life is the best place for it...
Inspired by the recent travel thread of someone asking if people were around for an in person meet up I thought I'd put one up on a more local scale. I'm not sure if ~life is the best place for it but it was my best guess.
If anyone is up for a pint or coffee in northern england it'd be nice to explore some other places nearby and meet up for one.
Anyone in another area could post their location as a top level reply as well so we don't clog the whole place up with similar threads.
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Sir Curse - Siren (2023)
6 votes