Posted: June 3, 2014 | Author: Ian Pace | Filed under: Abuse, Alan Doggett, BBC, Chetham's, Conservative Party, Islington, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Music - General, Musical Education, NCCL, PIE, Politics, Public Schools, Specialist Music Schools, Uranians, Westminster, Yehudi Menuhin School | Tags: abuse in music, abuse in musical education, adrian stark, alan doggett, alex renton, andré gide, andrew lloyd webber, anthony grey, antony grey, Benjamin Britten, benjamin ross, Brian taylor, chetham's, clare moreland, Clifford Hindley, colet court, colin ward, craig edward johnson, cyril smith, des wilson, douglas hurd, Ed Miliband, elm guest house, eric joyce, fiona woolf, Frances Andrade, frank beck, Geoffrey Dickens, germaine greer, gore vidal, greville janner, harriet harman, ian lake, jeffrey weeks, jesus christ superstar, jimmy savile, joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat, kenneth plummer, kincora, leon brittan, lucy robinson, magpie, mary whitehouse, michael brewer, michael davidson, national council for civil liberties, nccl, oscar wilde, paedophile information exchange, paul foot, peter hayman, peter morrison, peter pears, peter righton, Philip Pickett, pie, public schools, purcell school, robert waddington, sexual law reform society, simon danczuk, st mary's school, st paul's school, steven adrian smith, tim race, tom o'carroll, tom watson, understanding paedophilia, uranians, wells cathedral school, william hague, william malcolm, yehudi menuhin school |
I am in the process of preparing longer bibliographies of both published and online articles relating to issues of institutionalised abuse, specifically the areas on which I have concentrated – abuse in music schools and private schools, the Paedophile Information Exchange, and abuse involving politicians. Having recently reblogged a large number of articles from the Spotlight blog, I realise my site may not be so easy to navigate, so I am providing here a list with links of all my significant original articles.
General
New Cross-Party Group of MPs calling for Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (3/6/14)
Please contact your MP to ask for their support for a national inquiry into child abuse (5/6/14)
The stock government reply to queries about a national inquiry into organised child abuse (15/6/14, also regularly updated)
British Association of Social Workers contacts its 14K members calling for them to support organised abuse inquiry (20/6/14)
House of Commons debate 26/6/14 following publication of Savile reports (26/6/14)
On the Eve of Possible Major Revelations – and a Reply to Eric Joyce (1/7/14)
Abuse in Musical Education and the Music World
Reported Cases of Abuse in Musical Education, 1990-2012, and Issues for a Public Inquiry (30/12/13) (this post is in need of some updating to mention other cases during the period in question)
The Trial of Michael and Kay Brewer and the Death of Frances Andrade, and the Aftermath, 2013 (12/8/14)
Proposed Guidelines to protect both Music Teachers and Students – a starting point for discussion (21/2/15)
New stories and convictions of abuse in musical education, and the film of the Institute of Ideas debate (11/1/14) (also in need of updating)
Petition for an inquiry into sexual and psychological abuse at Chetham’s School of Music and other specialist institutions (original version – each version has a different long list of comments) (16/2/13)
Petition for an Inquiry into Sexual and other Abuse at Specialist Music Schools – The List of Signatories (19/2/13)
Re-opened until May 31st, 2013 – Petition for an Inquiry into Abuse in Specialist Music Education (9/5/13) (the final version)
A further call to write to MPs to support an inquiry into abuse in musical education (26/11/13)
In the Aftermath of the Brewer Sentencing – A Few Short Thoughts and Pieces of Information (27/3/13)
Michael Brewer – a powerful Director of Music, not just a provincial choirmaster or music teacher (28/3/13)
Reports from the Malcolm Layfield Trial (2/6/15)
Chris Ling’s Views on Sexing Up Classical Music (11/2/13)
Robert Waddington, Former Dean of Manchester Cathedral, and Chetham’s School of Music (12/5/13)
The 1980 Department of Education and Science Report into Chetham’s School of Music, National Archives ED 172/598/2 (20/9/15)
Contact details for Greater Manchester Police relating to Chetham’s (11/4/13)
Publication of Reports into Chetham’s by ISI and MCC – Senior Management and Governors should consider their position (3/4/13)
New Surrey Safeguarding Report on suicide of Frances Andrade draws attention to dangers of music education (10/4/14)
Alun Jones to be new Head of Chetham’s – and a list of SMS Heads and Music Directors (13/12/15)
Marcel Gazelle and the Culture of the Early Yehudi Menuhin School (7/5/13)
Craig Edward Johnson, the Yehudi Menuhin School, Adrian Stark, and wider networks? (8/4/14)
Contact Details for Surrey Police, in relation to the Yehudi Menuhin School (11/5/13)
Philip Pickett arrested on 15 charges, and interview with Clare Moreland in The Times (14/2/14)
The case of Ian Lake, and reflections on the year (30/12/13)
Clifford Hindley: Pederasty and Scholarship (3/3/14)
Abuse minimisation as an example of the writing of history as kitsch (14/7/13)
New article in Times Educational Supplement on abuse in musical education – and public debate on October 19th, Barbican Centre (3/10/13)
A message from another victim of abuse at a UK music school, calling for others to come forward (25/11/13)
Call to speak out on bullying and psychological/emotional abuse in music (9/1/14)
Alan Doggett, first conductor of Joseph and Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Paedophile Information Exchange (28/3/14) (an updated version of original post from 7/3/14)
New revelations on Alan Doggett, and Colin Ward’s 1981 article on Doggett and Tom O’Carroll (25/3/14)
Further on Alan Doggett – child prostitution and blaming victims at Colet Court School (28/3/14)
Peter Righton’s Diaries: Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Michael Davidson (11/5/14)
Benjamin Britten and Peter Righton – A Response from the Britten-Pears Foundation (12/9/14)
Geoff Baker on El Sistema: sexual and other abuse in an authoritarian, hierarchical, archaic music culture (15/11/14)
The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and associated areas
NCCL and PIE – documentary evidence 1 (25/2/14)
NCCL Documentary Evidence 2 – Sexual Offences – Evidence to the Criminal Law Revision Committee 1976 (7/4/14)
PIE – documentary evidence 2 – from Magpie 1-8 (trigger warning – contains disturbing material) (26/2/14)
PIE – documentary evidence 3 – from Magpie 9-17 (trigger warning – contains disturbing material) (26/2/14)
PIE – documentary evidence 4 – UP, ‘Childhood Rights’, and Paedophilia – some questions and answers (27/2/14)
PIE – Documentary Evidence 5 – Contact Ads (9/3/14)
PIE – Documentary Evidence 6 – Chairperson’s Report 1975/76 (16/3/14)
PIE – Documentary Evidence 7 – Steven Adrian Smith’s History of the Movement (31/3/14)
PIE – Documentary Evidence 8 – Mary Manning in Community Care and Auberon Waugh in The Spectator, 1977 (16/7/14)
The PIE Manifesto (6/3/14) (link to Spotlight blog from 18/4/13)
PIE and the Home Office: Three+ members/supporters on inside, funded, magazine printed and phone line (15/3/14)
PIE and the Gay Left in Britain – The Account by Lucy Robinson – plus various articles newly online (29/6/14)
Antony Grey and the Sexual Law Reform Society 1 (26/8/14)
Antony Grey and the Sexual Law Reform Society 2 (29/9/14)
Tim Tate – Chapter on Paedophiles from book ‘Child Pornography: An Investigation’ (4/8/14)
The File on Peter Hayman in the National Archives (30/1/15)
Two Obituaries of Peter Hayman, Senior Diplomat, MI6 Officer and PIE Member (6/3/14)
Clifford Hindley: Pederasty and Scholarship (3/3/14)
Peter Righton – His Activities up until the early 1980s (21/8/14)
Letter to Guardian from 1963 from a Peter Righton on Books dealing with Sex for 14-year olds (20/8/14)
Peter Righton – Counselling Homosexuals (1973) (2/9/15)
Peter Righton’s Articles for Social Work Today (5/6/14)
Peter Righton and Morris Fraser’s Chapters in ‘Perspectives on Paedophilia’ (5/6/14)
Peter Righton’s writing on child abuse in Child Care: Concerns and Conflicts – his cynical exploitation of a post-Cleveland situation (28/8/15)
Peter Righton, Antony Grey and Kevin O’Dowd in conversation on therapy (26/8/14)
Peter Righton was questioned about child sex offences in May 1993 and November 1994 (21/8/14)
The Larchgrove Assessment Centre for Boys in Glasgow that even Peter Righton found to be cruel (20/8/14)
Brian Taylor and Ken Plummer’s Chapters, and Bibliography, from ‘Perspectives on Paedophilia’ (29/6/14)
Peter Righton’s Diaries: Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Michael Davidson (11/5/14)
Benjamin Britten and Peter Righton – A Response from the Britten-Pears Foundation (12/9/14)
Peter Righton – Further Material (12/6/14)
Peter Righton obituary in Ardingly College magazine (16/7/14)
Reports from the Richard Alston Trial (20/8/15)
From the memoirs of John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker (1916-2004) (3/3/15)
Dr Morris Fraser, Belfast, Long Island New York, Islington (17/10/14) (This is a link to a post on Charlotte Russell’s blog, but so important I wanted to include it here)
The Love and Attraction Conference (1977) and Book (1979) (7/7/14)
Betrayal of Youth (1986) – including the contributions of Middleton, Owens, Faust, Tatchell (5/7/14)
Academia and Paedophilia 1: The Case of Jeffrey Weeks and Indifference to Boy-Rape (29/9/14)
The Uranians #1 – the nineteenth/early twentieth century PIE? (24/5/14)
Public Schools
Alan Doggett, first conductor of Joseph and Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Paedophile Information Exchange (28/3/14) (an updated version of original post from 7/3/14)
New revelations on Alan Doggett, and Colin Ward’s 1981 article on Doggett and Tom O’Carroll (25/3/14)
Further on Alan Doggett – child prostitution and blaming victims at Colet Court School (28/3/14)
Craig Edward Johnson, the Yehudi Menuhin School, Adrian Stark, and wider networks? (8/4/14)
Extraordinarily powerful article by Alex Renton on the abusive world of British boarding schools (4/5/14)
Colet Court School and St Paul’s: A Collection of Articles from The Times (8/5/14)
Benjamin Ross’s account of Colet Court School (8/5/14)
Criminal abuse in the classroom as portrayed by D.H. Lawrence (4/5/14)
Politicians, Government and Abuse
General
Call for All Political Leaders and Leadership Candidates to Pledge Full Co-operation with Abuse Inquiry (9/7/15)
What leading UK politicians should pledge about organised child abuse (17/10/14)
The Meeting with the Abuse Inquiry Secretariat at Millbank Tower, Friday October 31st, 2014 (1/11/14)
Labour’s nominees for inquiry chair, and a left ‘establishment’ (6/11/14)
Please contact your MP to ask for their support for a national inquiry into organised child abuse (5/6/14, regularly updated).
The stock government reply to queries about a national inquiry into organised child abuse (15/6/14, also regularly updated)
British Association of Social Workers contacts its 14K members calling for them to support organised abuse inquiry (20/6/14)
House of Commons debate 26/6/14 following publication of Savile reports (26/6/14)
On the Eve of Possible Major Revelations – and a Reply to Eric Joyce (1/7/14)
A few good politicians – Becky Milligan at the office of Simon Danczuk, with Matt Baker, and the personal impact of abuse campaigning (18/7/14)
Ed Miliband should be leading the calls for a wide-ranging abuse inquiry (3/5/14)
Article from Telegraph – Simon Danczuk on child sex allegations involving senior Westminster figures (15/5/14)
PIE and the Home Office: Three+ members/supporters on inside, funded, magazine printed and phone line (15/3/14)
Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir Michael Havers, and Kincora – guest blog post from Brian Merritt (10/7/14)
William Malcolm, the murdered paedophile who may have been about to expose a VIP ring (21/7/14)
Peter Morrison
Peter Morrison – the child abuser protected by MI5, the Cabinet Secretary, and Margaret Thatcher – updated July 2015 (26/7/15)
Peter Morrison and the cover-up in the Tory Party – fully updated (6/10/14)
Yes, Labour politicians need to answer questions about PIE and NCCL, but so do the Tories about Morrison, and the Lib Dems about Smith (25/2/14)
Tim Tate’s Questions to Lord Armstrong, and Armstrong’s Answer (26/7/15)
Fiona Woolf
Fiona Woolf, Leon Brittan and William Hague – conflicts of interest (11/9/14)
Fiona Woolf – the untruth in her letter to the Home Secretary (21/10/14)
Greville Janner and Frank Beck
Judge in 1991 Leicestershire sex abuse case on ‘people in high places’ (24/5/14)
Decision not to arrest Greville Janner in 1991 – then Attorney General and DPP need to answer questions (8/8/14)
The documents in the Andrew Faulds archives on Greville Janner (4/10/14)
Greville Janner’s view on a 1997 case of Nazi War Criminal with dementia (16/4/15)
And another case with Janner calling in 2001 for extradition of war criminal with dementia (16/4/15)
Greville Janner and Margaret Moran – trial of facts more likely for expenses fiddling than child abuse? (27/6/15)
Other
Anne Lakey didn’t ‘seduce’ or ‘take the virginity’ of a 13-year old boy – she sexually abused them (24/6/15)
Gore Vidal – paedophile, literary lover of child rape (11/8/14)
Germaine Greer’s Apologia for Child Abuse (27/6/14)
More pro-child sexual abuse propaganda from Germaine Greer (12/11/14).
Academia and Paedophilia 1: The Case of Jeffrey Weeks and Indifference to Boy-Rape (29/9/14)
The Uranians #1 – the nineteenth/early twentieth century PIE? (24/5/14)
Simon Callow on the paedophile exploits of André Gide, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas and others (31/7/14)
Liz Davies’ Open Letter to Margaret Hodge (3/8/14)
Paul Foot on Kincora Boys’ Home, and Recent Kincora Articles (1/8/14)
Paul Foot on Kincora – Appendix with Colin Wallace documents, and mention of Morris Fraser (9/8/14)
Claire Prentice in 1998 on Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith, and Mummy’s Boys (30/6/14)
Mary Whitehouse’s Favourite TV Programme – Jim’ll Fix It (7/7/14)
Decision not to arrest Greville Janner in 1991 – then Attorney General and DPP need to answer questions (8/8/14)
Be very sceptical about online communications laws which protect the powerful – social media and the right to offend (20/10/14)
Posted: April 27, 2014 | Author: Ian Pace | Filed under: Abuse, Liberal Democrats, Politics, Westminster | Tags: charles kennedy, child abusers in parliament, cyril smith, david alton, david steel, des wilson, liberal democrats, liberal party, paddy ashdown |
Former Liberal Party President Des Wilson has written a scathing piece about Cyril Smith and the Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party for today’s Mail. Wilson writes in disparaging terms of a self-serving parliamentary party out of touch with its own activists, of feeble MPs too afraid to stand up a sexual and political bully like Smith, the ineffectiveness of David Steel as leader, and so on. The following passage is especially interesting:
Oh, I remember them all.
There was the MP who virtually sustained the whisky industry on his own. If you lit a match too close to his breath you could have made Guy Fawkes Night look like a back-garden barbecue. Many a bar would have been bankrupted without his presence. (And this was before the days of Charles Kennedy.)
As for affairs, Paddy Ashdown was not the only parliamentary party member whose secretary was valued for more than her typing skills.
Then there was the local party leader from well to the north of Watford who had to be woken from his bed on many a Friday and Saturday night to attend a local police station and rescue his MP from trouble after he had been picked up in one dubious circumstance or another. This MP once asked me to travel for three hours to speak to his local party one Friday evening. When I arrived at his house he was just welcoming two attractive ‘boys’ who had also travelled from London on the same train. I was put in a taxi and sent to the meeting without even the offer of dinner while the MP headed to some dodgy backstreet club with his much younger friends.
And, then, there was Cyril Smith who somehow survived more than 140 complaints to the police. How could that possibly happen?
So who in particular was this MP from north of Watford to whom Wilson refers, who may also have been guilty of criminal offences (depending upon the age of the ‘boys’)? Wilson was involved in the Liberal Party from 1973, becoming the President of the Party from 1986-87 (just before the merger with the Social Democratic Party in 1988, producing the Liberal Democrats), then running the 1992 election campaign, after which time he stepped down.
I intend to look at Wilson’s other books presently to see if there are any other clues, but though for now I would list all Liberal or Liberal Democrat MPs for seats North of Watford during this period. It is unlikely to have been Steel, Smith, Kennedy or David Alton as they are all mentioned in other contexts in the article. I would also imagine the MP in question to have been in Parliament during the period of Wilson’s Presidency from 1986 to 1987, or possibly during the run-up to the 1992 election campaign.
Jo Grimond, Orkney and Shetland, 1950-1983 (Liberal) (deceased)
Emlyn Hooson, Montgomeryshire, 1962-79 (Liberal) (deceased)
Russell Johnston, Inverness, 1964-83; Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-97 (Liberal Democrat) (deceased)
David Steel, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, 1965-83; Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-97 (Liberal Democrat)
Richard Wainwright, Colne Valley, 1966-70, 1974-87 (Liberal) (deceased)
Michael Winstanley, Cheadle, 1966-70; Hazel Grove, 1974 (Liberal) (deceased)
Cyril Smith, Rochdale, 1972-88 (Liberal), 1988-92 (Liberal Democrat) (deceased)
David Austick, Ripton, 1973-74 (Liberal) (deceased)
Clement Freud, Isle of Ely, 1973-83; North East Cambridgeshire, 1983-87 (Liberal) (deceased)
Alan Beith, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1973-88 (Liberal), 1988-present (Liberal Democrat)
Geraint Howells, Cardigan, 1974-83; Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire North, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-92 (Liberal Democrat) (deceased)
David Alton, Liverpool Mossley Hill, 1979-88 (Liberal), 1988-97 (Liberal Democrat)
Michael Meadowcroft, Leeds West, 1983-87 (Liberal)
Malcolm Bruce, Gordon, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-present (Liberal Democrat)
Alex Carlile, Montgomeryshire, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-97 (Liberal Democrat)
Archy Kirkwood, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-2005 (Liberal Democrat)
James Robert Wallace, Orkney and Shetland, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-2001 (Liberal Democrat)
Richard Livsey, Brecon and Radnorshire, 1985-88 (Liberal), 1988-92, 1997-2001 (Liberal Democrat) (deceased)
Elizabeth Shields, Ryedale, 1986-87 (Liberal)
Menzies Campbell, North East Fife, 1987-88 (Liberal), 1988-present (Liberal Democrat)
Ronald Fearn, Southport, 1987-88 (Liberal), 1988-92, 1997-2001
Janet Ray Michie, Argyll and Bute, 1987-88 (Liberal), 1988-2001 (Liberal Democrat) (deceased)
Charles Kennedy, Ross, Cromarty and Skye, 1988-97, Ross, Skye and Inverness West, 1997-2005, Ross, Skey and Lochaber, 2005-present (Liberal Democrat)
Robert Maclennan, Caithness and Sutherland, 1988–97; Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, 1997–2001 (Liberal Democrat)
Michael Carr, Ribble Valley, 1991-92 (Liberal Democrat)
Nicol Stephen, Kincardine and Deeside, 1991-92 (Liberal Democrat)
Other MPs not North of Watford:
Jeremy Thorpe, North Devon, 1959-79 (Liberal)
John Pardoe, North Cornwall, 1966-79 (Liberal)
Graham Tope, Sutton and Cheam, 1972-74 (Liberal)
Christopher Mayhew, Woolwich East, 1974 (Liberal) (deceased)
Paul Tyler, Bodmin, 1974 (Liberal); North Cornwall, 1992-2005 (Liberal Democrat)
David Penhaligon, Truro, 1974-86 (Liberal) (deceased)
Stephen Ross, Isle of Wight, 1974-87 (Liberal) (deceased)
Bill Pitt, Croydon North West, 1981-83 (Liberal)
Simon Hughes, Bermondsey, 1983; Southwark and Bermondsey, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-97; North Southwark and Bermondsey, 1997-present (Liberal Democrat)
Paddy Ashdown, Yeovil, 1983-88 (Liberal), 1988-2002 (Liberal Democrat)
Matthew Taylor, Truro, 1987-88 (Liberal), 1988-97; Truro and St Austell, 1997-2010 (Liberal Democrat)
David Bellotti, Eastbourne, 1990-92 (Liberal Democrat)
All of the MPs listed above should also be asked what they knew about Cyril Smith.
Desiring Progress 