A little under 20 years ago I was news editor of the Big Issue in Scotland. As a young journalist, it was an exciting job and I felt I might be doing some good. One day I took a phone call from a woman who insisted she had a story for me but that we had […]
Spelling mnemonic: Jimmy’s a vile man
There’s only one l in Savile and that’s how to remember.Every day brings more revelations of vile abuses be the children’s presenter once considered to be a national treasure. And we shake our heads and ask ourselves how this can have happened.When I was 10 or 11, I went on an Outward Bound course at […]