The Latest Breaking News from Jimmy Savile

TV takes a dark turn as true crime is turned into primetime drama

Infamous real-life British cases are providing inspiration for a suite of new fictional series

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022

Jimmy Savile: how the Netflix documentary fails to address the role institutions play in abuse

Jimmy Savile was one of the UK’s most serious serial sexual predators. Over several decades the television personality groomed and abused up to 1,000 boys and girls in TV studios as well as patients at NHS hospitals across Britain. That he was able to do so without being apprehended, even…

The Conversation · May 4, 2022

Edinburgh Primark shoppers speechless after spotting man in 'Jimmy Savile' top

The video shows the shopper seemingly unphased as he walks through the busy shop wearing a football strip strangely paying homage to sex abuser Jimmy Savile.

Edinburgh Live · May 3, 2022

Former child migrant lifts lid on UK’s ‘biggest sex abuse scandal’

Gordon Brown had called child migration ‘government-induced (human) trafficking’ which was a ‘bigger sex scandal’ than Jimmy Savile.

The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2022

Awful and Awesome Ep 249: The Kardashians, Anatomy of a Scandal, Jimmy Savile documentary

While discussing the Jimmy Savile documentary:

Newslaundry · Apr 21, 2022

Misleading the country: Boris Johnson and ministers have made dozens of false statements to parliament

Exclusive investigation : Labour accuses government of ‘litany of lies and falsehoods’ as calls for corrections are ignored

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Every misleading statement Boris Johnson has made to parliament since the general election

Misleading the country: The prime minister has failed formally to correct at least 17 false statements since the 2019 general election

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

The creepy moment Jimmy Savile joked about kidnapping women in Edinburgh

In episode two the disgraced paedophile jokes about kidnapping Scottish women and "selling" them while being interviewed outside the Scottish Parliament.

Edinburgh Live · Apr 17, 2022

How can an MP even think of excusing child abuse? Have we learned nothing?

Crispin Blunt’s support of Imran Ahmad Khan shows that power can still disregard victims

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022

Digested week: a downward spiral from Vogue to Brooklyn Beckham’s Instagram

Sharing in a celebrity couple’s joy, an elevator hitch, and why it’s time to stop quoting David Mamet

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2022