Saw that being quoted elsewhere as well. There is a reason why safeguarding including inappropriate behaviour reporting is such an important thing in all schools, and a reason why people who actually do that sort of thing should end up in jail and on the register.
And yet he’s being feted & mourned over by Murdoch’s media ghouls such as Andrew Neill, David Yelland & the likes of Piers Morgan & Farage.
If I recall from my youth he was one of a generation of writers/journos who showed promise (Tony Parsons & Julie Burchill also spring to mind) who all became the most odious of cunts.
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I suppose we should be (very slightly) grateful that one right-wing journo had enough self-restraint to keep himself out of ‘doing-harm’s way’. At least one other one didn’t
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Woodhead#Personal_life_and_controversy
On the plus side it’s yielded a bumper crop of social media blocks for the “but he wasn’t horrible to me personally” brigade 
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From Frances Ryan’s article:
“Every editor who commissions it, reads it, and decides to go ahead and print it is not only complicit, but actively responsible in facilitating it.”
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Oh no…
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Mrs SJS is a lifelong Madonna fan, and I must admit RoL is a fantastic album, and the one he did with Blur is also pretty good
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Strange Cargo III is one of my all time favourite electronic albums.
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I have a soft spot for this
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Teardrop drummer Gary Dwyer
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RIP Jimmy, gutted about this today
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This upsets me so much, the double standards and to be honest out and out racism have caused this.
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Oh no. No.
Whatever the background might be, or might not, not this.
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Awful news.
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Terrible news.
Wow that’s a tough one.
Sad and a sign of the times.
And I expect that the trolls will gloat over it - sick bastards
Shit, shit, shit !
Desperately sad.