Former 6th Doctor’s View On Savile
Actor Colin Baker, the 6th Doctor of Dr Who fame, filmed a mini-episode with a fan via Jim’ll Fix It and gave his impressions of Jimmy Savile during filming to the Daily Mail here.
I wanted to share this with you because John Oliver makes some important points about how we have made so many strides in acceptance and encouraging people that it is OK to ask for help, and then the system doesn’t provide it. Sadly things have gotten so bad that we’re trying just about anything, and even the technology isn’t living up to the hype.
Real people with real needs are left with nowhere to turn. A society that claims to care about people cannot accept that status quo.
We couldn’t let the day finish without remarking on a watershed child abuse case that started two years ago and whose effects are continuing to ripple throughout the UK. The court order preventing the identification of this child’s killers was lifted by a judge. (We don’t know if this ever applied to other countries). We…
By now, I would hope that most of my readers know that most abuse is not a result of strangers abducting children, but something much closer to home. Abusers are mostly people known to kids, and to families. The reason the child abduction cases garner so much attention when they happen is because they are…
Really, there are two things you can do to fight falling for misinformation. You could try to never be angry, but I don’t think that’s realistic. There are things to be angry about, rightfully. We can’t go through live just not feeling anything.
The thing I think we can do, and the thing I work hard at myself, is staying humble. Never assume you “know” everything, that you never make mistakes, that there is nothing more for you to learn. That’s how you fight misinformation, and it’s also really helpful when it comes to fighting negative thoughts, depression, anxiety, etc.
Stephen Messham made one of his first public statements since last week’s mistaken identification of an ex-Conservative Party politician, and the Daily Mail’s hatchet job, when talking to BBC Wales’s Week In Week Out programme. Since this is currently unavailable to other regions on BBC’s iPlayer, the news website has the summary here. Also last week Sky News…