“any heard from Blair ….”
He has gone very quiet, hasn’t he?
I expect lots of ageing rock stars, still revered in popular culture, often have sleepless nights about getting a knock at the door…
The BBC clearly relished putting the boot in today. The same BBC which employed Jimmy Saville. And the same BBC which employed John Peel, still revered in liberal circles.
Peel himself is on record saying “One of my, er, regular customers, as it were, turned out to be 13, though she looked older. It became expedient to move to Oklahoma”.
According to Wikipedia: “An interview originally published in ‘The Herald’ in April 2004 stated that Peel admitted to sexual contact with ‘an awful lot’ of underage girls…In 2012 Jane Nevin came forward stating that she had a three-month affair with Peel in 1969, when she was 15 and he was 30.”
Worth noting that the BBC continues to show repeats of “Top of the Pops” on BBC4 which prominently feature Peel. I somehow doubt the BBC would be similarly indulgent towards someone perceived to be “right wing” who had openly admitted to the same conduct.