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My post 'The Bloody State We're In' detailed the backgrounds of Lord Max Beloff and some of his family. Max was the father of Cherie and Tony's mate Michael Beloff QC, who was the legal advisor for Municipal Mutual, the insurers for Clwyd County Council throughout the years whilst children in the care of Clwyd were severely abused. It was Michael Beloff's advice which resulted in the 1996 Jillings Report into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd being witheld from absolutely everyone but the Council's insurers and lawyers for decades. Even Clwyd County Councillors themselves were not permitted to read the report (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…').
Max Beloff had previously provided a glowing endorsement of a book written by Ioan Bowen Rees, who was Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council whilst the paedophile gang operated in children's homes across Gwynedd and Clwyd. Ioan was the boss of Gwynedd's Director of Social Services, Lucille Hughes – Lucille was Dr Dafydd Alun Jones's mistress.
I decided to do a bit more research into Max Beloff and his contacts because Max was involved with some of the right wing gurus of the 1970s and 80s who influenced and advised Thatcher. In the 1980s someone who was plugged into at least part of that network worked at UCNW (Bangor University), a agricultural economist, Professor Richard Howarth. I met a young relative of Richard Howarth's once – at a bus stop in Menia Bridge, in about 1982 – and she told me that he was having meetings with Thatcher.
Richard Howath worked in the Agriculture Dept, which must have been the most dysfunctional Dept in UCNW. There was a constant supply of students approaching the university authorities requesting to change course. One of the lecturers – Gordon Farley – was the most ridiculous old sexual harasser who could be imagined and had been removed from his post as a warden of a student hall of residence because of the hair-raising stories that were circulating about him. There were frightening anecdotes from former students of having been forced out of the university as a result of vendettas from staff in the Agriculture Dept and the Prof of Agriculture was a complete incompetent called J.B. Owen who very obviously should not have been in his job. I was told many years later that Owen's family had provided the money which had established the Dept and that was the only reason why he was ever given his job. Mary Wynch had worked as a secretary in the Agric Dept before Dafydd unlawfully imprisoned her. Mary became headline news after she won her case against Dafydd, but no-one from that Dept supported her. I have always wondered what Mary found out about JB Owen et al, particularly as I was told repeatedly that he was a deeply unpleasant man and there had been many victims…
For details of the horrors and stupidities of the Agri Dept and JB Owen, see post 'Not Seen Since the 80s – Carwyn'.
One of the UCNW students mentioned in my post 'Just A Language Divide?' who took up a job in the US after graduation – which seemed to have been arranged for her by the corrupt GP in the Student Health Centre, Dr DGE Wood and his wife, who was a senior lecturer in UCNW, after this young woman found out about the corruption in the North Wales Police – also knew about much wrongdoing in the Agri Dept. Unlike some people who were forced abroad by Wood et al into not very desirable jobs, this young woman landed a very good deal in a US university, despite her not having shown much interest in academic work. Her father was an Editor on 'The Daily Telegraph'. The staff of the Student Health Centre knew about this because they made a reference to it one day.
Although I wasn't studying agricultural economics, I took an interest in Richard Howarth's work because I wondered how someone surrounded by the pillocks in the Agri Dept had found himself dining with Thatch. Howarth did actually have academic interests unlike a number of his colleagues – many of whom seemed to be simply mates of JB Owen's – but it was all very standard 1980s Thatcherite stuff, recommending Adam Smith etc.
At one point Howarth looked as though he was going to be very influential. It became known that his group were the only people in the Agri Dept with any life in them and he appeared in the London-based press a few times. A few years after I graduated, I was told that one of Howarth's team, Terry Thomas, was much in demand in high places and was nipping over to Europe as an advisor.
Things then died a death quite suddenly. Howarth disappeared from the University and a piece appeared in 'Private Eye', alleging that he had been driven out of north west Wales by much unpleasantness. The last I heard, Howarth was running a guest house. Years later Terry Thomas made headlines in the local Welsh press after suing the University, alleging that his health and life had been ruined by them.
This may be a coincidence, but it all fell apart after Mary sued Dafydd and at the time that the allegations concerning serious abuse of children in north Wales began surfacing.
My post 'Reports Of Death Were Greatly Exaggerated' mentioned that in 1984-85, Thatcher's henchman from the UGC, Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, planned to close UCNW down but had his arm twisted into allowing the institution to continue to exist by the PVC of UCNW Prof Alwyn Roberts, who was also a big name in the BBC and S4C. Alwyn Roberts knew that UCNW was run by people facilitating the paedophile gang which was supplying children to Dolphin Square as well as to Thatcher's friend and aide Sir Peter Morrison and many others.
During the late 1980s and the first few years of the 1990s, Richard Howarth was involved with various right wing and anti-EU groups – then the trail goes cold. Max Beloff was involved with similar groups and might well have known Howarth.
One of Max Beloff's proudest achievements was the establishment of the University of Buckingham, the UK's first private university.
The University of Buckingham was founded as the University College of Buckingham in 1973 – the first students were admitted in 1976. It was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1983.
The University was closely linked to Margaret Thatcher. As Education Secretary she oversaw the creation of the University College in 1973 and as PM she was instrumental in elevating it to a university in 1983. After retiring from politics in 1992, Thatch became the University's Chancellor, a post she held until 1999.
Lord Hailsham, Quintin Hogg, succeeded Thatch as Chancellor. Hogg was the Tory MP for Oxford, 1938-50 and then for St Marylebone, 1963-70. Hogg was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He migrated back and forth between the Commons and the Lords as a consequence of renouncing an hereditary peerage but then gaining a life peerage under Ted Heath. Hogg came from a long line of Hoggs who were all equally offensive. Hogg was a barrister and a keen mountain climber and his career with the Tory Party stretched back into the Pre-Cambrian era. He was First Lord of the Admiralty under Anthony Eden; Lord Privy Seal, Chair of the Tory Party and Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the Lords and Lord President of the Council under Supermac; Education Secretary under Alec Douglas-Home, Shadow Home Secretary under Heath and Lord Chancellor under Thatch. As Lord Chancellor, Hogg was preceded by paedophiles' friend Lord Elwyn-Jones and succeeded by paedophiles' friend Lord Michael Havers.
Hogg was disgusted by homosexuality at a time when he will have known that many of his colleagues were molesting underaged boys whilst being protected by the Lord Chancellor. It was Hogg who, after the Argies surrendered, joyfully declared that it was God wot won it for us. Only he said it in Latin, Boris-like, so the journos all had to scamper off to look it up. A case of 'sane, paululum linguae latinae dico' ('sure, I speak a little Latin'), a la Manuel on Fawlty Towers when he stood behind the moose's head and said 'I speak English, I learn it from a book' and gave the Major a shock.
Hogg transmitted the inherited trait to become a Tory Minister onto his son Douglas.
Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb followed Hogg as Chancellor, 1999-10. Jacomb was Chairman of Canary Wharf Group. For details of how Canary Wharf was built upon the corpses of the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles, see post 'The Bodies Beneath Canary Wharf'. Jacomb was a Vice-Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Ltd, 1976-85, and a Deputy Chairman of Barclays Bank, 1985-93.
Jacomb was educated at Eton and Worcester College, Oxford. He was a barrister, 1955-68 and then began his career in business. In 1986 Jacomb described insider trading as a 'victimless crime'. Obviously in the same way that no-one was really harmed by Dafydd and the paedophiles, they just made it all up to receive compensation.
According to the University of Buckingham, Jacomb 'is a strong believer in the need for universities to be independent of the government'. He has written that if universities are 'to nurture genuinely free and creative academic research' and 'be the guardians of liberty which a free society needs' they must be independent of Gov't funding. He maintained that Oxford University should become private in order to avoid an authoritarian Gov't imposing restrictions on admissions and that Oxford's academics will only be able to challenge prevailing opinion if they are independent of Gov't funding. Dependence on Gov't funding, Jacomb argues, has had disastrous effects on the HE sector in continental Europe.
I too have deep concerns over the way in which the UK's universities have filled up with not very brave people who daren't publish anything too critical of the state – it is a massive problem in health and social care research. But somehow I don't think that the answer is to ensure that the same people end up being frightened of upsetting international financiers.
Martin Jacomb was succeeded as Chancellor by Lord Tanlaw aka Simon Mackay. Tanlaw takes a particular interest in the Far East, especially Malaysia. He was a Director of the family firm, Inchape plc, with many business interests in the region from 1967 to the mid-1990s, at which point the Mackay family's involvement in the company ceased. Lord Tanlaw currently owns Fandstan Electric Group Ltd, a railway and engineering company.
Tanlaw has served as both President and Treasurer of the Sarawek Association and is a member of the Oriental Club, London and White's. He was a member of the executive committee of the Great Britain-China Centre, 1981-88.
Simon Mackay was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Galloway in 1959, and by the late 1960s was joint Treasurer of the Scottish Liberal Party. So he'll be well acquainted with David Steele and the other Liberals of that era who kept quiet about Jeremy Thorpe and Cyril Smith (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed').
Tanlaw received his peerage in 1971. He sat as a crossbencher for many years, then as a Conservative.
Lord Tanlaw resigned as Chancellor of the University of Buckingham in 2013 but I haven't yet found out why. He was succeeded by Tessa Keswick.
Tessa Keswick aka Lady Tessa Reay is the daughter of an aristocrat. Tessa married another aristocrat, the 14th Lord Reay. Lord Reay owns a substantial country estate in Wiltshire – just like Sir Peter Morrison's father did. Lord Reay also owns an 18,000 acre shooting estate in the Angus Glens area of East Scotland.
Tessa is now married to Sir Henry Keswick. Sir Henry was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge and owned 'The Spectator', 1975-80. Sir Henry is Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd, a company that he joined in 1961. He became a Director in 1967, MD in 1970 and Chairman in 1972. Sir Henry is Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Association and a member of the Council of the National Trust. He was previously Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery and is involved with 'The Tablet'.
During the 2017 General Election, Sir Henry and Tessa donated £100k to the Conservative Party.
Sir Martin Jacomb will be delighted to hear how private universities are free of political bias from authoritarian Gov'ts.
The reason that I have blogged about Tessa's male relatives rather than Tessa is that I can't actually find much info about Tessa. I've found a photo of her but apart from the fact that she is Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, there is not a great deal about her readily available. Which suggests that she might have bagged her job on the strengths of her male relatives.
The University of Buckingham's finances for teaching are derived entirely from direct student fees and endowments: it does not receive state funding, via HEFCE or otherwise. It has formal charity status.
Some of the founding academics migrated from Oxford University, stating that they were disillusioned with 'the late-1960s ethos'.
One of the founders of the University was John W. Paulley, a Top Doctor who enjoyed writing angry letters to 'The Times'. On 27 May 1967, 'The Times' published a letter from Paulley, who wrote:
'Is it now time to examine the possibility of creating at least one university in this country on the pattern of [the] great private foundations in the USA.'
Three London conferences followed which, the wiki entry for the University tells us, 'explored this idea'.
The development of the University of Buckingham was linked to the right wing Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), in particular to Harry Ferns and Lord Ralph Harris, the heads of the Institute. The University's foundation-stone was laid by Thatch.
Harris was General Director of the IEA, 1957-88 and then served as Chairman. He was founding President from 1990 until his death in 2006. Harris served on the Council of the University of Buckingham, 1980-95.
Harris was Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1967 and its President, 1982-84. He was 'a moving spirit in the Wincott Foundation and the founding of the Social Affairs Unit'. Harris was a founder of the No Turning Back group in 1985. He was Chairman of the Bruges Group, 1989-91. He was a Director of Murdoch's Times Newspapers, 1988-01.
Harris helped set up a fighting fund to support Neil Hamilton's libel actions against the BBC in 1986 and Mohamed Al Fayed in 1999. He was Chairman of Civitas from 2000 and also Chairman and then President of FOREST, the smokers' rights campaigning group.
Max Beloff was the University of Buckingham's first Vice-Chancellor.
Beloff was succeeded by Sir Alan Peacock, 1980-84, an economist and founder of the Economics Dept at the University of York. Peacock also held posts at the University of St Andrews, the LSE, Edinburgh University and Heriot-Watt University. He was Chief Economic Adviser to the DTI, 1973-76 and a Co-founder and the first Executive Director of the David Hume Institute.
Alan Peacock was followed as VC by Lord Richard Luce, 1992-96. Luce was educated at Wellington College and Christ's College, Cambridge. After National Service in Cyprus, 1955–57, Luce briefly joined the Overseas Civil Service. He then worked for Gallaher Ltd as a brand manager (1963–65), before becoming marketing manager for the Spirella Company of Great Britain. In 1968–71 he was Director of the National Innovation Centre. From 1972-79, Luce was Chairman of IFA Consultants Ltd. Luce was also Chair of Selenex Ltd (1973–79) and of Courtenay Stewart International (1975–79).
Luce was first elected to the Commons as the Tory MP for Arundel and Shoreham in 1971. He retired from the Commons at the 1992 General Election. Days before the firebomb in Brighton (22 miles away from Arundel) killed the five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs').
Between 1979-82, Luce held Ministerial posts in the Foreign Office. In 1982, along with Lord Carrington, he resigned over Argentina's invasion of the Falklands.
Luce returned to the Foreign Office in 1983, again as a Minister. In 1985, he was appointed as Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Civil Service. He resigned from that post in 1990.
Between 1997-2000, Luce was appointed Governor of Gibralter. He bagged his peerage in Oct 2000, after the Waterhouse Report had been safely published. In the same year, he became Lord Chamberlain – the Head of the Royal Household – a post he held until 2006. Sir Peter Morrison's sister Dame Mary Morrison spent her whole life as Lady-In-Waiting to HM the Queen Lilibet. During many of those years, Peter Morrison was abusing children, including children in care in north Wales.
In April 2012 Lord Luce was appointed by PM David Cameron as Chair of the Crown Nominations Commission for the See of Canterbury, the commission set up to nominate the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury.
Lord Luce is President of the Voluntary Arts Network, the Royal Overseas League and is High Steward of Westminster Abbey.
Luce is from a family in which many members have reached very senior positions in the Forces, particularly the Royal Navy. Admiral Sir Alec Bingley was a man who had the most impressive of careers in the Royal Navy. He was, among other things, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet during WWI; the Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Air) in 1954; Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet and NATO Commander, Allied Forces in the Mediterranean in 1959 and then Commander in Chief, Portsmouth. Sir Alec was married to Lady Juliet Bingley, who during her many her years with MIND, concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course'). Sir Alec and Lady Juliet's son William Bingley continued Lady Juliet's good work in concealing the serious crimes, both in his capacity as legal director of MIND and then as CEO of the Mental Health Act Commission (see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course').
It is very likely that Luce knew Sir Alec from Luce's years in the Foreign Office. Luce's uncle was Sir David Luce, First Sea Lord, 1963–66, who would have certainly known Sir Alec. Luce's sister Diana is married to retired Royal Navy Captain David Hart Dyke and his niece is comedian and actress Miranda Hart. The tall one who makes jokes about being desperate to get married and does a face at the camera every five minutes. When she's not telling the jokes about her mother. The BBC know that women like that sort of comedy. And that when they say no they mean yes.
The University of Buckingham's website informs us that Luce's wife Lady Rose Luce sang in the choir of the University of Buckingham Alumni Association at the pre-Christmas do in 2013.
Since Sept 2015, Sir Anthony Seldon has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. Seldon is an historian and a biographer of recent PMs and the former Headmaster of Wellington College. What is less well-known is that prior to that, Seldon was Headmaster of Brighton College, which educated a number of paedophiles' friends, including Keith Best, the former Tory MP for Anglesey, 1979-87 and Welsh Office Minister (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'). Seldon sits on the Advisory Board of another private university, A.C. Grayling's venture, the New College of the Humanities, which seems to attract seriously rich students who have not got into Oxbridge. Seldon is the son of the economist Arthur Seldon, who co-founded the IEA and was Director of Academic Affairs at the IEA for 30 years.
Seldon is a thoughtful man but nonetheless is duped by flaky ideas. His pupils were encouraged to practice Mindfulness as pioneered by paedophiles' friend Professor Mark Williams (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot') and Seldon is Co-founder of Action for Happiness, the con perpetrated by Lord Richard Layard, husband of paedophiles' friend Baroness Molly Meacher (see post 'A Vintage Crop').
The VC prior to Sir Anthony was Prof Terence Kealey, 2001-14, formerly of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge University. Kealey is a Top Doctor who trained at Bart's and did his PhD at Balliol. Kealey opposes the public funding of science and believes that Thatch transformed schools and universities. Which I suppose she did.
A few days after Thatch was driven away from Downing Street wiping tears from her eyes, I was shopping in a supermarket with my friend – whilst we were both living in London and under attack from the paedophiles' friends – and we were doing what those people who turn up on Andrew Neil's TV programmes and make completely inaccurate predictions about the political year ahead describe as 'assessing the legacy of Thatcher'. As we headed towards the checkout in the supermarket in Peckham – which had obviously been transformed by Thatcher as well – my friend observed 'she's ruined everything hasn't she'. And I tried to think of something which had not been ruined by Thatch and I couldn't. So we went back to my mate's flat in Peckham – which had a huge iron portcullis thing on the door, after the door had been kicked in by burglars a few weeks previously – and we discussed the lunatic GP in Peckham whom my friend had seen a few days previously who had prescribed her something that would have caused her serious damage if she had been thick enough to take it.
My mate's local MP was Harriet Harman who fought many an election on the 'NHS is great' ticket. Whilst my friend lived in Peckham she was sacked from her job at the Royal Television Society because she knew what had happened to me at the hands of Dafydd and the paedophiles and wanted to make a documentary about it- the destruction of my friend's career was, I understand, something to do with Sir Paul Fox, one of Thatcher's favourite media executives – and then my friend's husband was driven out of his job at the BBC for the same reason.
Happy days Harriet! Young Labour Party activists' careers ruined because their friend was targeted by those who were supplying Thatcher's mate Sir Peter Morrison with boys.
Terence Kealey is an advocate of the privatisation of HE.
The School of Medicine at the University of Buckingham offers postgraduate programmes for qualified doctors and since 2015 has offered an undergraduate medical qualification at a cost of £35,000 per year. The University of Buckingham Medical School works in partnership with Milton Keynes NHS Trust and Milton Keynes University Hospital.
The Dean of the School of Medicine is none other than Karol Sikora, who was one of those among the crooks and fraudsters who worked at Hammersmith Hospital/Royal Postgraduate Medical School when I was a postgrad there in 1986/87 (see post 'A Cause Close To Our Hearts'), although Sikora subsequently fell out with them in a big way. Sikora's main aim as a Top Doctor seems to be to become even richer than he is already.
Sikora was a Foundation Fellow of Prince Charles's now-defunct alternative medicine lobby group, The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health. The University of Buckingham ran a Diploma course in 'integrated medicine' that was later withdrawn under pressure from David Colquhoun, a campaigner against pseudoscience.
Sikora is Chair of the Faculty of Integrated Medicine, which is unaffiliated to any university but includes Rosy Daniel and Mark Atkinson, who co-ordinated the 'integrated medicine' course at the University of Buckingham. Rosy Daniel has been criticised by David Colquhoun for breaches of the Cancer Act 1939 regarding claims that she made for Carctol, a herbal dietary supplement which is ineffective in treating cancer.
Since the demise of the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Heath, Prince Charles has been involved with the College of Medicine, a lobbying group for alternative medicine, which many suspect is just The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health with a new name on the door. Professor Andrew Miles is on the 'scientific council' of the College of Medicine.
Professor Andrew Miles is Senior Vice-President and Secretary General of the European Society for Person Centred Healthcare. He was formerly Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine as well as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He has previously held Chairs at Guy's, King's College London and St. Thomas' Hospitals' Medical School London and at St. Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospitals´ School of Medicine, London.
Andrew Miles trained in the bosom of the paedophiles' friends at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff.
Karol Sikora is also a 'professional member' of the College of Medicine.
The University of Buckingham also awards undergraduate and Masters degrees to students who have studied at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, a private university in Sarajevo.
The University of Buckingham validates courses in medicine at Medipathways College, a private college based in London which operates dentistry and medicine courses. In late 2014 Medipathways was found by the Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency 'to be at serious risks of failure'.
The University of Buckingham Press publishes in the areas of law, education and business. In 2006 the Press relaunched 'The Denning Law Journal'. Presumably the Lord Denning who achieved notoriety for stating 'Be ye ever so high the Law is above you'. But he must have made an exception in the case of the Birmingham Six when he declared that if their appeal was to succeed it would be an admission of corruption so serious and widespread which was such 'an appalling vista' that it was better that they should remain in prison even if they had been fitted up. Lord Denning subsequently stated that if they'd been hung it would have been easier all round because there wouldn't be all this fuss.
And if the paedophiles' friends had succeeded in killing me in one of their arson attempts on my house in the early 1990s, no-one would have to put up with this blog exposing the Top Doctors and their associates.
Good to know that the University of Buckingham named their Law Journal after the finest legal brain that the British judiciary has ever produced.
The University of Buckingham Press publishes other journals, including 'The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics'. It has a co-publishing arrangement with Policy Exchange. The backgrounds of the questionable people involved with Policy Exchange were detailed in my post 'Disgusting of Tunbridge Wells And A Few Equally Disgusting Others'.
Alumni of the University of Buckingham include Brandon Lewis, Tory MP for Great Yarmouth and currently Chairman of the Conservative Party; Mark Lancaster, Tory MP for Milton Keynes North; Graham Roos, appointed in 2011 as the University's first Creative Artist in Residence – who earlier in his career worked with Pete Doherty, which might be something that the University of Buckingham does not want remembered – and James Henderson, the former CEO of Bell Pottinger.
John W. Paulley, the man who's letter to 'The Times' set the University of Buckingham ball rolling, was a Top Doctor in Ipswich. He was the son of another Top Doctor who was also called John Paulley. John W. Paulley was educated at Epsom College and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Following pre-reg and casualty posts, Paulley joined the RAF in 1940. He returned to the Middlesex Hospital after WWII.
Gwynne the lobotomist trained at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain's widow Jocelyn worked at the Middlesex – Chamberlain concealed a paedophile ring whilst he worked at St George's Hospital Medical School and Jocelyn must have known that. The Middlesex has an influential alumni network.
The Royal College of Physicians website 'Lives of The Fellows' section explains that 'frustrated by the inhibitions of an academic unit, [Paulley] was appointed consultant physician to the Ipswich Hospital in the hope, more than amply fulfilled, that he could better practice high quality medicine in the environment of a district general hospital. His medical unit rapidly gained a national reputation'.
The reality is that Paulley was involved in some highly unethical experiments on patients accompanied by a degree of law-breaking and was not supervised or held to account. This blog's correspondent Richard Card has left many comments about Paulley's activities at Ipswich – Richard was one of Paulley's patients as a child.
The Royal College tells us that Paulley's 'studies in ulcerative colitis, first published in 1950, led to a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease and thereafter into psychosomatic relationships in the pathology of disease. These ideas were not confined to inflammatory bowel disease but expanded to include observations of potential contributory psychological factors in asthma, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. These promoted considerable resistance amongst numbers of more traditional physicians but at least in part are now widely accepted'.
The notion held by some Top Docs that many conditions were 'psychosomatic' caused serious problems on the occasions when those Top Docs failed to identify that a condition had an organic basis. Psychological factors play a major role in how people live with their conditions, but much harm was done when Top Doctors stubbornly clung to the belief that seriously ill people were suffering from 'stress' or 'psychosomatic disorders' – many people with gastrointestinal conditions, ulcers, ME/CFS and numerous other conditions failed to receive the appropriate care and treatment because of a touching belief that it was 'all in their mind' and some of those people died.
Paulley's interest in psychosomatic conditions culminated in an 'outstanding textbook' – according to the Royal College of Physicians – written with a fellow general physician, H.E. Pelser, 'Psychological Managements for Psychosomatic Disorders', Berlin/New York, Springer-Verlag, c.1989. We are told by the Royal College that 'those of us who worked with him as he explored patients' attitudes and feelings, very often on his knees at their bedside (as a tall man it was the only way to get down to their level), could not fail to see the potential relationship between mind and body'.
One wonders what the patients thought was going on.
Paulley was of course 'an excellent and devoted teacher and a great inspiration to those working with him, all of whom were encouraged to think 'outside the box'. He developed postgraduate teaching in the hospital and was the first clinical tutor. He ran a weekly journal club requiring team members to present original papers, excluding those in 'The Lancet' or 'BMJ' (all were expected to have read these) or controlled clinical trials (because these rarely contained anything of new scientific interest!). He was one of the first consultants to develop a multidisciplinary team approach, including his own physiotherapist, dietician and dedicated nursing team'.
We can interpret this as 'Paulley was a cult figure who adhered to bizarre notions, rejected science which attempted to be rigorous and led a little gaggle of staff who did exactly as he ordered, no matter how whackey or dangerous'.
Sounds a bit like Dafydd.
Paulley 'regarded himself as always 'on call' for his inpatients, except during his yearly annual holidays. He immediately forged close working relationships with local practitioners, initially inviting them to join ward rounds, promoting seminars and then the establishment of the first vocational training scheme based on a district general hospital, which not only espoused all the principles of holistic care which he himself practised but also provided a curriculum based on weekly group tutorials, using what would now be called a problem-based self learning approach'.
It's Dafydd again – 'always on call' can be a basis for complete domination of a patient and concealing of one's abusive activities rather than dedication. If someone is always on call, that patient will be refused a service by other Top Docs no matter how desperate they are to escape.
Documents in my possession describe how Dafydd was fuming at senior staff in the NHS in north Wales because patients were ringing him up and taking the piss out of him. Dafydd was attending meetings and sending memos around stressing how he had to be available '24 hours a day' for 'certain patients' and that was why he couldn't even install an answerphone to deal with the 'nuisance calls'. This was a man who hardly ever turned up to his NHS clinics and who left sectioned patients to rot for many months in the North Wales Hospital without even visiting them. Who did the idiots running the NHS in north Wales think that Dafydd was receiving calls from at 3 am, calls that could not even be dealt with for a couple of hours by the answerphone? Not that Dafydd always knew who he was speaking to either. I'll remind you Dafydd – 'Is that Anna??? Is that Meri??? Hilary!!!!' It wasn't any of them you daft old bugger, although I'd love to know who they were….
Then there was the fictional Dr Angus McGregor who had been to medical school with Dafydd in Liverpool whom Dafydd remembered well from their student days, which was incredible because the whole scenario was conjured up by a Hergest patient whom Dafydd had unlawfully imprisoned some years previously. Dafydd was a bit suspicious at first, but once Dr McGregor had told Dafydd that he'd heard that Dafydd was Europe's leading forensic psychiatrist and he was proud to have known him, all Dafydd's defences were dropped.
There was a suggestion that a GP called Dr Finlay should give Dafydd a ring, but I don't think even Dafydd would have fallen for that.
How the North Wales Hospital and Ysbyty Gwynedd claimed to 'not know' where Dafydd was when he hadn't turned up to an NHS clinic or when a patient wanted to discuss a complaint I don't know, because we all knew at which private clinic he was. It was either Bryn Heed (next to Safeways in Bangor), the Grosvenor Nuffield in Chester, the North Wales Medical Centre at Llandudno or even the Queen's Hotel in Leeds (one of Jimmy Savile's haunts), or on occasions a venue in Europe.
The Dafydd of Ipswich held an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Buckingham and was Vice-Chairman of their Planning Committee. The University of Buckingham also gave Paulley a DSc. There seems to have been rather a lot of this sort of thing happening at Buckingham – the founders of the University and their relatives were given the most senior academic positions and had honours bestowed upon them (see post 'The Bloody State We're In').
Now where else have I witnessed such practices?
Paulley's wife Deidre was also a Top Doctor and 'developed counselling skills to help those with psychological disturbances'. In other words those who had been abused – probably sexually – by someone who's offending was being concealed. The phrase 'developed counselling skills' suggests that Deirdre made them up as she went along rather than adhering to any known programme/school of thought etc. John W. Paulley supported Deirdre's development of the very successful Stockwell Centre (for counselling) in Colchester, which was founded in 1976.
Deirdre helped those with psychological disturbances in Ipswich. So Deirde will have known who those involved in the paedophile gang in Suffolk were and what the role of Lord Henniker was (see post '95 Glorious Years!'). Peter Righton, the social work academic who was also a paedophile and a founder member of PIE, for a time lived in a cottage on Lord Henniker's estate. Children in the care of Hackney and Islington Councils were taken to Suffolk on trips – including to Henniker's estate – and holidays and some complained of being abused there.
I have not been able to find out very much at all about John Allen before he arrived in north Wales in 1968 and set up the Bryn Alyn Community, but I have been told that he came from Suffolk. Near Ipswich. I would like to know whether Allen set up shop in north Wales because he knew that there were two very helpful psychiatrists working in the North Wales Hospital who would do anything in return for money and privileges, or whether those two psychiatrists joined in the bonanza once John Allen's business got off the ground.
John Allen's arrival in north Wales was followed by the arrival of a whole flurry of people who had found themselves in possession of enough money to buy an isolated old building and convert it into a 'children's home'. Kids were abused in all of these homes, in pretty much the same way by the same people. There was a lot of traffic in terms of staff moving between the homes.
The 'Save The Children' website has some very interesting snippets about the history of children's homes in north Wales. Many of those homes which later became notorious for being the sites of serious abuse in the 1970s and 80s had been established in the late 19th or early 20th century. There seems to have been an awful lot of children's homes in north Wales and a cluster around Wrexham. I'm not sure why – north Wales was not a heavily populated region but it was poor and some industries such as quarrying resulted in the deaths of considerable numbers of men at a young age as a result of industrial accidents. Some cohorts of the quarrymen had a very short lifespan anyway, I think for the lowest ranking group of workers it was about 37 yrs of age. So there might have been a lot of orphans about, or just people who were too poor to look after their children. Or there might be some other explanation…
The Paulleys had four children – Sarah, Robert, Amanda and Julian. Julian completed a law degree at the University of Buckingham. Julian Paulley worked as a solicitor in London, specialising in employment/financial/tax/business/intellectual property/wills and probate law. He died in 2013.
The Royal College tells us that John W. Paulley 'was one of the great general physicians of his generation. A big and somewhat superficially daunting man, he could be somewhat didactic and a powerful defender of his own views, but he listened to others. He was entirely honest, kind and in many ways a gentle man.'
He was a total git but he was hiding his true nature…
My correspondent Richard Card has also mentioned that Suffolk was the base of Leonard Cheshire and Sue Ryder. In the 1960s Leonard Cheshire Homes residents became the subject of group psychiatric research for three years. The research was commissioned by the Dept of Health and was conducted by the Tavistock Institute. The details of this research are not available, under the Attorney General's custodianship rules.
The Tavistock Institute has concealed criminality and abuse for years.
John W. Paulley contributed to a 1965 volume, 'Psychosomatic Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults', which covered the Proceedings of a Conference Held by the Society for Psychosomatic Research at the Royal College of Physicians, London, November 1960′.
The conference considered 'psychosomatic disorders occurring between the ages of 15-25 years and discusses the mental transformation from childhood to adult maturity. This book is organized into eight sessions encompassing 26 chapters. The first two sessions review the concepts of mental health and the psychosexual development in adolescence. The next sessions look into the issues of teenage pregnancy, menstrual disorders, emotional sweating, male sexual disorders, epilepsy in adolescence and psychosomatic aspects of acne vulgaris. These topics are followed by discussions on stress-related disorders, including tuberculosis and acute appendicitis. The remaining sessions describe certain aspects of mental transformation, such as the link between family and emotional maturity and fitness for marriage'.
This was the sort of thing that Dafydd and co were 'trained' in. It is well worth paying a bit of attention to this volume and some of those who contributed.
John Paulley Chaired the session 'Concepts of Mental Health; The Adolescent in industry; The Adolescent in the University'.
Dr Kenneth Soddy Chaired the session 'The Psycho-sexual Development in Adolescence'.
Kenneth Soddy worked as a psychiatrist in London and was at one point the head of the Psychology Department at UCH. So Soddy was overseeing the activities of Marjorie Wallace and the Count et al at UCH (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').Soddy also spent some time working in Devon in the mid-60s. At one point he lived with his family in the grounds of Hellingly Hospital in East Sussex. Kenneth Soddy died in 1986.
Soddy came from a family of Top Doctors, a number of whom emigrated to the US, Australia and South Africa.
Aleck Bourne Chaired the intriguing sounding session on 'Pregnancy in Adolescents; Menstrual Disorders; Observations on Emotional Sweating During the Menstrual Cycle; Sexual Disorders in Males.
I'm disappointed that Dafydd and co never diagnosed 'emotional sweating during the menstrual cycle' in me, I obviously missed out there.
Aleck Bourne was a well-known gynaecologist who became famous as a result of his trial in 1938 for performing an illegal abortion on a 14 year old rape victim. Bourne later became a pro-life activist.
Bourne was educated at Rydal School in Colwyn Bay and at Downing College, Cambridge. He undertook his clinical training at St Mary's Hospital. and served with the British Army in Egypt and France, 1914-1917.
A keen yachtsman, Bourne was a member of several yacht clubs during the 1930s and in 1933 won the Royal Corinthian's Yacht Club's cup for the best cruiser of the year.
In 1938, Bourne was arrested after performing an 'operation without fee' at St Mary's Hospital to terminate the pregnancy at six weeks of a 14 year old girl who had been sexually assaulted by five off-duty British soldiers in the Royal Horse Guards. She had asked for a termination at St Thomas's Hospital but was sent away on the grounds that she 'might be carrying a future PM', a fairly standard line used when Top Docs do not want to perform a termination. No-one ever says to such patients 'you might be carrying the next Hitler/Harold Shipman/Dafydd'. Rosemary's Baby!
Bourne stood trial at the Central Criminal Court in July 1938, but was acquitted on charges of procuring abortion. His actions were later defended by 'The Lancet' as 'an example of disinterested conduct in consonance with the highest traditions of the profession'.
Bourne's defence had been based upon the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1992, under which the only recognised justification for the termination of a pregnancy was if the life of the woman was in danger. Bourne's defence was that the inevitable subsequent emotional and psychological trauma that the girl would experience would be a risk to her life.
If a Top Doctor today gave this reason for performing a termination on a 14 year old victim of multiple sexual assault, no-one would question it. In 1938 attitudes were very different. Yet there are a number of questions that arise from Bourne's case.
Abortion was effectively illegal in 1938, although any woman with a bit of spare money would be able to find a Top Doctor to perform one if she knew who to ask. Women with no money risked their lives or did not have abortions. History tells us that Tommy's turned the girl away. Yet historical accounts from people who worked at that institution confirm that abortions were performed by Top Doctors there and frequently. Perhaps the Top Doctors at Tommy's always demanded payment and the girl didn't have the money?
We are told that Bourne terminated the pregnancy at six weeks. In 1938, there were none of the sort of pregnancy tests which are available at present which can detect a positive test within days of a missed period. In 1938 women waited…and waited…and waited…Sometimes for weeks before anyone took their concerns about a pregnancy seriously. Particularly in a girl as young as 14. Even a Top Doctor, in 1938, would have great difficulty in firmly diagnosing a pregnancy of six weeks. That's pretty embryonic and Bourne won't have had the equipment to detect an embryo.
Sexually assaulted by five soldiers? It sounds horrific, what with soldiers being a bit rough, not like Top Doctors who's only goal in life is to relieve suffering.
If Aleck Bourne had been reported for performing an abortion on someone in 1938 he would be in a great deal of trouble. There was a criminal investigation into his actions which ended up at the Old Bailey. A story involving five soldiers and an embryo was the only thing that was going to keep Bourne out of prison.
I can find no references to any attempts to find the five soldiers and prosecute them, although details about them were given.
During the 1960s, Bourne became a founding member of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, which was organised in opposition to the Abortion Act 1967. In his memoirs Bourne wrote:
Those who plead for an extensive relaxation of the law [against abortion] have no idea of the very many cases where a woman who, during the first three months, makes a most impassioned appeal for her pregnancy to be 'finished,' later, when the baby is born, is thankful indeed that it was not killed while still an embryo. During my long years in practice I have had many a letter of the deepest gratitude for refusing to accede to an early appeal.
This does sometimes happen and there are Top Doctors who have genuine conscientious objections to abortion. However there is a great deal of hypocrisy in some circles regarding abortion. I know of Top Docs and Angels who have taken a hard anti-abortion line in public but who positively demanded that people in their own families have an abortion because the pregnancy was inconvenient to them.
My post 'The BMA And It's Ethics' describes how in north Wales local Top Doctors organised themselves to ensure that NHS abortions were virtually unobtainable until the late 1980s. The Top Docs who took such a high moral tone with disadvantaged local women requesting abortions cheerily sent their more affluent patients in the direction of private abortion clinics in Chester. There was complete collusion with a situation in which disadvantaged women – including the girls who were victims of the paedophile gang – could not obtain abortions, yet the families and friends of the Top Docs and Angels themselves had access to abortion on demand. It wouldn't surprise me if there had been a financial arrangement with the private clinics in Chester, they were making a bomb out of the committed anti-abortionists of north Wales.
There is no explanation of Bourne's drastic change of heart anywhere. I suspect that like so many Top Doctors – particularly of Bourne's generation – he did what he felt like. Including performing an abortion – which might have been for money, we only had Bourne's word that it was 'without fee'. Whatever Top Doctors have been caught doing, they always claim to have been doing it on compassionate grounds, even Harold Shipman used that rationale.
Bourne continued serving as consulting gynaecologist to St Mary's Hospital and to the Samaritan Hospital for Women as well as consulting obstetric surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Hospital before his eventual retirement and death in December 1974, aged 88.
Geoffrey Chamberlain worked as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte's Hospital whilst Aleck Bourne worked there. Chamberlain spent years concealing the organised abuse of children and towards the end of his career at St George's Hospital Medical School he was caught in a scandal involving the biggest research fraud that had ever been exposed (see post 'I Don't Believe It!')
Geoffrey Chamberlain was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1955-74, ending his career with them as a surgeon commander. So he'll have been plugged into the Gwynne the lobotomist/Sir Alec Bingley network.
Another contributor to the volume of conference proceedings was Dr Emanuel Miller. Miller Chaired the session 'The Family and Emotional Maturity; Fitness for Marriage'.
Emanuel Miller was a 'Regent's Park psychiatrist', a military psychiatrist and one of the founders of child psychiatry who worked at Harley House.
Dr Emanuel Miller was father of an even more famous Top Doc – self-styled polymath Sir Jonathan Miller.
Jonathan Wolfe Miller is a theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist and Top Doctor. He specialised in neurology in the late 1950s and came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in Beyond the Fringe. Miller began directing operas in the 1970s and has since become one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. He has written/presented more than a dozen BBC documentaries.
Miller grew up in St John's Wood, in a well-connected Jewish family. He was educated at Taunton School and St Paul's School, London. While at St Paul's School, Miller became close friends with future Top Doctor Oliver Sacks and Oliver's best friend Eric Korn – friendships which remained crucial throughout the rest of their lives.
Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who, like Jonathan Miller, found fame as a polymath. Sacks passed through the Middlesex Hospital – he was from a family of Top Doctors, some of who were also associated with the Middlesex – before leaving the UK and building his career in the US. Sacks's writings caught the media's and public's imagination, probably because he gave his books titles like 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat'. In the final years of his life Sacks revealed that he was gay.
Eric Korn was yet another polymath, but unlike his mates Miller and Sacks, Korn wasn't a Top Doctor. Korn was a marine zoologist and taught the subject at Southampton, Toronto and Liverpool.
Another place that was well-known for marine zoology was UCNW.
Eric Korn wrote for 'The Guardian' and was also a regular on Radio 4's 'Round Britain Quiz'.
Miller, Sacks and Korn attracted the observation from fawning people that they 'are quite the cleverest man that I have ever met'. One therefore wonders how Miller and Korn missed Jimmy Savile whilst they were hanging out at the BBC.
Miller studied at St John's College, Cambridge where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. He did his clinical training at UCH. Whilst a student, Miller was in the Cambridge Footlights. Miller performed on a number of radio and TV shows whilst a student. He qualified as a Top Doctor in 1959 and then worked as a house officer for two years, including at the Central Middlesex Hospital for gastroenterologist Sir Francis Avery Jones.
Francis Avery Jones was a Welsh Top Doctor – he was born in Carmarthenshire – who was educated at the Sir John Leman High School in Suffolk. He undertook his medical training at Bart's Hospital Medical School – which is where Lady Juliet Bingley had worked as an almoner (social worker) and where her father had been a surgeon. Avery Jones was born in 1910, so he will have been of the vintage to have known both Lady Juliet and her father. Professor Linford Rees who concealed the criminality of Dafydd et al in north Wales for many years worked at Bart's (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). Avery Jones worked at the Central Middlesex until 1974. He was also consultant to St Mark's Hospital, 1948-78 – Lady Juliet also worked at St Mark's – and to the Royal Navy, 1950-78.
Avery Jones Chaired the King Edward VII Hospital Fund Development and Emergency Bed Service Committee,and the DHSS's Advisory Committee on Medical Records.
Lord Simon Glenarthur was Chairman of the King Edward VII Hospital – Glenarthur was a Director of the MDU. Simon Glenarthur was also a Health Minister under Secretary of State Ken Clarke and was substantially responsible for the 'tainted blood' scandal, in which thousands of NHS patients contracted Hepatitis and HIV after being given infected blood products. Glenarthur was hanging around in the DoH whilst Jimmy Savile was appointed to the management team of Broadmoor.
Avery Jones will have known that his colleagues were libelling patients as well as forging medical records, so presumably it was dear old Avery who ensured that the decision as to whether to give patients access to their own records had to be made by the Top Doctors 'with the best interests of the patient' in mind. Which enabled Dafydd and the paedophiles to simply repeat for nearly 20 years that it was not in my best interests to have access to my records. Because if I did I would have found out that they had detailed their own criminality as well as their plans to frame me and have me imprisoned or banged up in a secure hospital.
My post 'Gwlad Y Menig Gwynion' described how a copy of a 1988 application of mine for a research job in gastroenterology turned up in my medical records. The application was not for a job in Wales, so I wonder how the paedophiles' friends got their paws on it.
Francis Avery Jones died in Chichester in 1998. Chichester is 28 miles away from Brighton, the scene of the firebomb attack in 1992 which killed five witnesses to the criminality of the paedophiles' friends in north Wales. John Allen owned brothels in Brighton to which the kids in care from north Wales were trafficked.
Avery Jones was a mentor to the best – his Indie obituary was written by none other than Sir Richard Doll, who had worked for him.
The Central Middlesex Hospital borders Brent – the location of a paedophile ring as well as of neglect and abuse in the mental health and children's services (see post 'Mary Turner – An Appreciation').
Jonathan Miller helped to write and produce 'Beyond the Fringe', which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in Aug 1960. This launched, in addition to his own, the careers of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Miller quit the show in 1962, and took over as Editor and presenter of the BBC's arts programme 'Monitor' in 1965. The 'Monitor' appointment arose because Miller had approached Huw Wheldon about taking up a place on the BBC's director training course.
Huw Wheldon was a big name at the BBC for years. He came from north Wales, went to Friar's School in Bangor along with a number of the paedophiles' friends and remained a good friend to the paedophiles' friends throughout his life – he was a Governor of the LSE and UCNW (Bangor University) when UCNW was run entirely by the paedophiles' friends (see post 'The Creme de la Creme').
Miller directed stage-plays during 1960s and produced and directed for TV. In 1968 Miller produced a TV adaptation of M.R. James's 1904 ghost story 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'. Which sounds dreadful if one imagines one of Dafydd's mates saying it.
By 1970, Miller had mounted a National Theatre Company production of 'The Merchant of Venice', starring dear, dear, Larry Olivier.
Miller held a Research Fellowship in the history of medicine at UCL, 1970-73. UCL was host to a number of paedophiles' friends, among them Marjorie Wallace and the Count (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').
In 1974, Miller started directing and producing operas for Kent Opera and Glyndebourne and for the English National Opera. Society psychopath Dr Cathy Wilson of St George's Medical School who worked for Geoffrey Chamberlain whilst he concealed a paedophile ring used to frequent those locations, as well as all the major theatres in London.
For a time, Miller was a Vice-President of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. It was alleged that some branches of CHE were fronts for paedophilia, including the Chester branch.
Miller became Chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Board of Directors.
For details of how Michael Grade offered Samuel Brittan – brother of Home Secretary Leon Brittan, who was at the time busy concealing the organised abuse of children and mental health patients – his ticket to the Edinburgh Fringe in a shameless bit of toadying after the box office at the Fringe had refused to pull strings to secure Brittan a ticket after the Fringe had sold out, see post 'A Secret And Forbidding Place To Work?'
In 1984, Miller studied neurosurgery with Dr. Sandra Witelson at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, before becoming a neuropsychology Research Fellow at the University of Sussex the following year. The Sussex University that is located at Brighton.
Miller wrote and presented the television series 'Madness', a five-part series which ran on PBS in 1991. It featured a brief history of madness and interviews with psychiatric researchers, clinical psychiatrists, and patients in therapy sessions. I've never seen it and I don't think that I want to, although I would no doubt learn something from the selection of people whose work and ideas Miller chose to foreground. In 1991, I and three other witnesses to the criminal activities of Dafydd and the paedophiles were hounded out of our jobs and there were two attempts to imprison me on the basis of the perjury of Dr Tony Francis (Dr X) (see post 'The Sordid Role of Sir Robert Francis QC'). St George's Hospital Medical School and Springfield Hospital concealed and colluded the criminality in north Wales in the early months of 1991 (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London').
Miller married Helen Rachel Collet, another Top Doctor, in 1956. They have two sons and a daughter. Miller lives in Camden. His eldest son, Tom, is a photographer, his second child, William, works in the TV business and his youngest child, Kate, also works in TV.
One of my friends worked with William Miller at the BBC in the late 1980s and observed that William 'was really fucked-up and obsessed with his father'. That was my friend who found himself forced out of the BBC after it became known that his wife knew what had happened to me in north Wales and wanted to make a documentary about it.
So I was interested when in 2012, the 'Mail Online' published a rather unflattering profile of Jonathan Miller, characterising him as an indulged grandiose twat. It made much of Jonathan's hissy fit after receiving a knighthood only for his services to the arts and not for services to medicine. Well Jonathan, as your contribution to medicine seems to have been to assist in the concealing of the serious criminality on the part of Dafydd and other Top Docs, no doubt you'll be given a peerage soon.
The 'Mail Online' article claimed that Miller felt 'uncherished' by his mother while, according to Miller's late sister Sarah (who also worked in TV), their father – the founder of child psychiatry who Chaired conference sessions on young people's emotional maturity and fitness for marriage – would slam doors saying that 'nobody cared' and that Miller senior 'always had to be the centre of attention or there was trouble'.
Jonathan's son William has spoken of how his own education was sacrificed on the altar of his parents' socialist ideology. Although the Millers could easily have afforded private education for their children, all three were sent to London comprehensives.
William described it as 'the most cavalier of social experiments'. His days at Pimlico Comprehensive were ruled by a sense of 'tyranny and terror'. Classrooms were a 'warzone'. At 16, William begged to be sent to Bedales, but 'the damage had already been done'. The three children left school without an academic qualification between them. One wonders how they landed the sort of plum jobs that normally require degrees from the more prestigious universities…
Jonathan's network at Cambridge included David Frost and the Footlights crowd, many of whom later became part of the Hampstead liberal elite. One of them was Graham Chapman who found fame with Monty Python, who used to seek out teenaged boys for sex and who adopted a 13 year old runaway from Liverpool. People who knew Chapman maintained that his relationship with this teenager – John Tomiczec – was not really fatherly. Chapman was a regular visitor to Snowdonia and John accompanied him. Chapman was questioned by the police concerning his relationship with John, but Chapman reminded the plod that he was a Top Doctor so he didn't need to explain himself to anyone. Chapman trained at Bart's. See post 'Inside Information About A Hergest Unit Death' for further info on Chapman and John Tomiczec.
John died young – not long after Chapman – in 1992. Same year as those five witnesses to the abuse of kids in care were killed by the firebomb in Brighton.
Graham Chapman was friendly with both Neil Innes and Viv Stanshall, who were members of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Neil Innes gave a performance at Theatre Gwynedd in Bangor in 1984 and my friend went to see it. He and some other students went out to a pub in Bangor with Innes afterwards, although – unlike after George Melly visited Theatre Gwynedd – I was not told that Innes offered a 16 year old boy money to have sex with him.
Viv Stanshall was the man responsible for writing and narrating Sir Henry At Rawlinson End, a well-known masterpiece. Although he was very funny, Viv Stanshall had quite a troubled life and was diagnosed as having manic depression – he was hospitalised at least once. Viv Stanshall was found dead in his bed in March 1995, after a freak accident caused a fire. One account that I read maintained that Viv inadvertently set fire to his bedding whilst he was smoking a fag in bed, but other accounts attributed the fire to other causes. There were no witnesses. Viv was found dead as the demands for a public inquiry into the possibility of a VIP paedophile ring in north Wales became deafening, not long before William Hague ordered Nicola Davies QC to conduct a review of the police paperwork relating to child abuse in the region.
There is a vintage clip of the Bonzos featuring Graham Chapman, Neil Innes and Viv and they are introduced as being 'from Mitcham'. Mitcham is part of the area of south London which was the location of the south London paedophile ring which was facilitated by Wandsworth Social Services and in the 1980s St George's Hospital Medical School/Springfield Hospital. Dafydd and Lucille had a direct link to the people who concealed the gang. One member of the gang was Oliver Broooke, the Prof of Paediatrics at St George's, a colleague of Geoffrey Chamberlain's (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III').
Viv Stanshall was a friend of Radio 1 DJ John Peel – Peel recorded one of the tributes to Viv after he died.
Readers who follow the comments section of this blog will have noticed my observations regarding how the Cool Cymru explosion based upon some high profile Welsh rock bands coincided perfectly with the growing publicity regarding the possibility that a paedophile ring involving VIPs had operated and indeed continued to do so in north Wales. The phenomenon that was Cool Cymru snowballed throughout the Waterhouse Inquiry and reached fever pitch in 1999, at the time of the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales. Welsh rock bands such as Catatonia, the Manic Street Preachers, the Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics became world famous and every self-respecting Welsh politician ensured that they were photographed attending a concert featuring one of these bands.
The 28 May 1999 saw the official opening of the National Assembly. HM Queen Lilibet and Prince Charles turned up, although Blair didn't, he claimed to be too busy with PMQs at Westminster. Lilibet re-signed a copy of the Government of Wales Act, the measure which set up the Assembly, which was handed to her by Attorney General, paedophiles' friend John Morris (see post 'The Waterhouse Tribunal – Who Was Involved And What Happened To Them Subsequently?'). Afterwards Lilibet and the assembled guests were entertained with a song in Welsh from Charlotte Church, then aged 13, who was accompanied by one of four harpists. One of those harpists was Elinor Bennett, wife of Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Wigley. Dafydd Wigley had no idea what a paedophile was, although Gwynedd County Council, whose offices were just around the corner from his office, were employing loads of them (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
Blair did make it over to Cardiff Bay later on in the day, to attend the 'Voices of a Nation' concert with Lilibet. The Manic Street Preachers very wisely boycotted the event, although Shakin' Stevens – who's manager was a mate of Rhodri Morgan's (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology') – and the best PR gurus that the north Wales NHS has ever had, Mike Peters and his band The Alarm, played. Max Boyce also joined in the singing.
Max Boyce achieved fame in the 1970s as a boisterous comedian/singer whose stage act involved a giant leek and much discussion about drinking great quantities with The Lads and Rugby, as well as anecdotes about him and his mates hitting Soho on trips to Twickers. So imagine my surprise when about four years ago I was told by One Who Knew that Max Boyce was gay. When I told Brown this and told him who had given me the info, Brown asked me if this person had found out about Max's orientation by 'peddling his arse'. The answer was of course yes.
Presumably a case of 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'.
Sir Anthony Hopkins, who starred as the murdering psychiatrist in 'The Silence Of The Lambs', sent a message to the 'Voices Of The Nation' concert, as did the Welsh rock band Stereophonics. The message from Stereophonics was of course sent some years before band member Stuart Cable died by choking on his own vomit after a binge-drinking session.
Cool Cymru was part of a wider phenomenon, Cool Britannia, in which even higher profile rock stars from England were invited to knees-ups at Number 10 with Tony and Cherie. Blair shamelessly milked the publicity as much as possible and in 1999 even appointed Spice Girl Geri Halliwell as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Population Fund.
Scream if you want to go faster Blair!
Geri was no socialist – her idol was Margaret Thatcher, whom Geri claimed was the 'original Spice Girl' and embodied 'female empowerment'. Which has been used to excuse a great many idiocies in recent years, including Geri appearing everywhere wearing her Union Jack dress which was carefully tailored to display her undies. Which defeats the point of a dress really. Geri the empowered woman later revealed that this role model for wimmin had experienced years of anorexia and serious depression. I am sympathetic to anyone with such problems but I really do wish that they'd stop telling the rest of us that they're our role models. Geri's mate Posh Spice and her husband David Beckham were even bigger and better role models than Geri and I would imagine judging from the appearance of Posh had even bigger and better eating disorders. I was always interested in the packaging of Posh as Posh – Very, Very Rich Spice would have been a more appropriate name.
Things went a bit pear shaped for Blair when one of those whose company he had cultivated – Noel or Liam Gallagher, I've forgotten which one – gave a media interview in which he explained that they were 'lads' and had therefore pursued the harmless pastimes that all grown men who describe themselves as lads do, such as breaking into other people's cars and ripping out the stereos.
Cool Britannia was a wider phenomenon than just music and embraced a number of artists and other cultural figures, who, despite their claims of being not in the least bit establishment, seemed to subscribe to a solidly neoliberal ideology and were plainly in pursuit of as much dosh as possible. By 2011 Tracey Emin – Mad Tracey From Margate – was swearing her allegiance to the Tory Party and had dined with Cameron. As Tracey's career had been given a substantial boost by Charles Saatchi when he purchased her 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995' tent, that was probably unsurprising.
When Emin et al were gaining so much publicity and making so much money from their sharks in tanks, unmade beds etc, I knew an artist in north Wales from a previous generation who had long since been a victim of Dafydd and the paedophiles. He used to get very angry about Emin et al and repeatedly told me that success in the art world was predicated entirely upon 'cocaine and champagne' and assured me that there was a healthy trade in 'boys' for people like David Hockney. At first I wondered if he was just reflecting popular beliefs about the rich n famous, but on occasions he gave me names and details which suggested that he had considerable knowledge about certain people, including Hockney and Francis Bacon.
The staff of the Hergest Unit dismissed this man as a total lunatic. If they're reading this blog they might have wished that they had listened to his ramblings a little more closely now – because I did and I found out some very interesting things…
How are you all getting on up there in the Hergest?? You all know who I'm talking about and you've got no idea what he told me about during all those years have you…
This man maintained that Tracey et al really were the King's New Clothes and that their success was based upon matters other than their 'art.' He maintained that, for example, he could fix a dog turd to a long piece of wire and design a mechanism by which the turd revolved around a lit light bulb, call it 'Turd Eclipsing The Sun' and that if he allowed certain influential people to have sex with him, he would achieve success. I and a friend were really taken by the idea of 'Turd Eclipsing The Sun' and tried to encourage him to actually build that installation, but sadly he didn't. The only part of his plan which I don't think would have worked was the bit where he would offer his body to benefactors – he had forgotten that he was no longer a teenager but was nearly 50.
This man did of course know all the local artists in north Wales of his generation, including those who became famous such as Peter Prendergast and Ed Povey. They all knew about Dafydd and the paedophiles and furthermore they knew what Dafydd and the paedophiles had done to this man…Then there was Paul Webster, the total bastard who taught art at Coleg Menai about whom the students made constant complaints but there was never any action…
I also discovered from the inspiration behind Turd Eclipsing The Sun that Everybody Hated Kyffin. That's the Kyffin Williams who taught Michael Mansfield art when Mansfield was young. Kyffin was the most famous artist to come out of north Wales. What was the secret of his success? Simple – Kyffin was born into a wealthy family and was rich enough to establish his own gallery…
The joys of Cool Britannia were not lost upon the wider circle of the paedophiles' victims. I remember many conversations taking place in the Hergest Unit whilst the events described in my posts 'A Solicitor's Letter From North East Wales MIND', 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' and The Banality Of Evil' took place, regarding the merits or otherwise of Oasis, Pulp and Blur. The Hergest patients did not of course benefit from A Very Big House In The Country, but the paedophiles' friends who were imprisoning them, neglecting them so severely that they were left destitute and driving them to suicide, frequently did have Very Big Houses In The Country. Property prices were very low in north Wales at that time because of the wrecked local economy, so a paedophiles' friend on anything above £40k – or indeed a married couple of paedophiles' friends both working as Angels or social workers – could live a good life. Dr Dafydd Alun Jones had three houses (at least) and he was not alone in that respect.
What I noticed during Cool Cymru was the elevation to international superstar status of people who I remembered when they were teenagers playing in local bands in Gwynedd. In the 1980s Gwynedd did have a thriving music scene but musicians from north Wales were cold-shouldered by the wider rock world. When I was an undergrad a group called Fay Ray were locally very popular and everyone became excited when one of those involved with managing or promoting The Police signed Fay Ray up. People imagined that Fay Ray were now going to hit the big time, but they didn't. The man who was the leading light in the band continued managing Cob Records in Bangor and I think that he later went to work in Bangor University. No-one became superstars although Fay Ray were very, very good. Everyone 'knew' that rock bands from north Wales could be brilliant but they would not be given the big breaks because they were, well, a bit too Welsh. Fay Ray were an English language band as well, the Welsh language rockers were utterly marginalised.
So imagine my surprise ten years later when local musicians from north west Wales – and one of them from Llanllechid, the village in which I lived – became hugely famous as the deaths of vulnerable people soared in that very village and the surrounding area.
The highest profile of those musicians from north Wales was Gruff Rhys, the son of Ioan Bowen Rees. Ioan was the Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council whilst the paedophile gang carried on business within the Council's children's homes unhindered and the Arfon Community Mental Health Team threatened patients, lied about them in court and generally made their lives as unpleasant as possible. Most members of the Arfon CMHT were social workers employed By Gwynedd County Council. Dafydd's mistress Lucille Hughes was Ioan's Director of Gwynedd Social Services. Ron Evans, the crooked lawyer who was involved in the perjury and forged documentation in the serial attempts to have me imprisoned, was Gwynedd County Council's lawyer under Ioan Bowen Rees.
My post 'I Know Nuzzing…' details the other gangsters and crooks who were employed by Ioan and also describes how Ioan's neighbours in Llanllechid actually lived – the service users and people on limited incomes who lived in the old quarrymen's cottages whilst Ioan et famille lived in their Very Big House In The Country down a private lane, surrounded by beech trees lest they clapped eyes on the people who were virtually destitute as a result of Ioan's mismanagement. Or indeed lest those being screwed over clapped eyes on the style in which Ioan lived. If people had grasped the wider picture, Ioan's house would probably have been one house that wasn't a holiday cottage owned by English people to have gone up in flames.
It was accepted that Ioan Bowen Rees and his ilk formed an elite in Gwynedd – they and their friends and relatives landed the plum jobs and everybody else was frozen out. The common perception was that this was a result of anti-English feeling – it wasn't, it was corruption. It was sometimes dressed up as Welsh language rights and patriotism but I knew Welsh people who's lives had been ruined by that lot. Furthermore, none of the thugs employed in the Arfon Community Mental Health Team spoke Welsh or were even learning it, although Gwynedd Social Services had a policy which stated that all such staff had to be Welsh speaking. Welsh people who knew about that policy constantly wondered what was going on with the Arfon Team – the whole lot of them could have been dismissed on language grounds, yet alone on the grounds of serious criminal activity. I don't think that Keith Fearns even knew how to say bore da or diolch.
So how did the offspring of the paedophiles' friends who ruled Gwynedd but were not recognised outside of Wales achieve fame and fortune – the offspring who provided such a positive image of Wales and Welsh youth just as former kids in care in north Wales told the Waterhouse Inquiry how they had been beaten, starved, forced to labour for local businesses free of charge, buggered, gang raped, trafficked across the UK and even to Europe for sex work and had been arrested themselves when they had asked the police for help?
A clue was provided in an interview with Rhys Mwyn in the 'Daily Post' in 2016. Rhys Mwyn is a former Welsh punk musician who was a member of the band Yr Anhrefn from Bangor which was formed in 1982. Rhys moved into production/management and journalism and has talked a great deal about how difficult it was for people in the Welsh rock scene to get a break. Rhys remembered that Sain 'wouldn't budge' and that Radio Cymru ignored them.
Sain is the Welsh language label that was established by Welsh folk singer and language campaigner Dafydd Iwan. Sain dominated everything musical in north west Wales for years and anyone who wanted to be anyone grovelled to Dafydd Iwan to get a contract with Sain.
Dafydd Iwan is the former leader of Gwynedd County Council and penned a tribute to Dr Dafydd Alun Jones. A real tribute, not a piss-take. I have tried in vain to access a copy, but it seems to be unavailable, although it can still be seen among the various lists of Dafydd Iwan's outputs.
So who gave the Welsh language rockers a break? It was none other than that well-known connoisseur of school girls in uniform, John Peel. Peel seems to have been very, very supportive of Gruff Rhys and his friends. John Peel was of course known for supporting unknown musicians and every hopeful teenaged band sent Peel a tape, but Gruff et al were singing in a language that John Peel did not understand – furthermore Peel had been around for decades without showing a flicker of interest in the Welsh rock scene. Not even Fay Ray, who actually sung in English.
Rhys Mwyn was so pissed off with the way in which he and his peers had been elbowed out by everyone pre-Peel that he became known as an outspoken critic of the Welsh pop industry. Mwyn (born Gareth Rhys Thomas) set up his own label – Recordiau Anhrefn – in 1983. His band Yr Anhrefn were also championed by Peel and recorded three sessions for Peel's Radio 1 show; Peel travelled to Wales to see the band perform. They were featured on 'The Tube' in 1987 – although they were largely ignored by the British music weeklies – and played with Joe Strummer on the Rock Against Rich UK tour in 1988.
Paula Yates was a star of 'The Tube', the Paula who when she was a teenager was a groupie, who developed drug problems and who's partner Michael Hutchence was found dead whilst she was in the middle of a major spat with her ex Bob Geldof. Paula died of an overdose herself after some very expensive Top Docs at The Priory found that they just weren't getting anywhere with her. She was probably suffering from emotional sweating. Paula's daughter Peaches died of an overdose a few years later.
Paula came from north west Wales, the very same village where the best friend that Dafydd and the paedophiles ever had, Lord Wyn Roberts (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'), lived.
Original Yr Anhrefn members Hefin Huws and Dewi Gwyn left the band in the late 1980s and were replaced by Dylan Hughes (formerly of Y Cyrff) and Sion Jones, formerly of Maffia Mr Huws. Maffia Mr Huws were a popular Bethesda band when I lived near Bethesda in the late 1980s/90s. Maffia Mr Huws currently appear on Sain's website, so they seem to be with Sain now, despite having been previously frozen out, if that is what did happen. The Sain site mentions the involvement of brothers Gwyn and Sion Jones with Maffia Mr Huws and states that Gwyn now runs Stiwdio Bos with his partner, the harpist Sian James.
Yr Anhrefn made their first English language recording in 1994, on a single with Liverpudlian actress Margi Clarke.
In 1995 Yr Anhrefn worked with producer Ronnie Stone who aided them in creating a collection of re-mixed Welsh folk music featuring Elinor Bennett and Sian James, as well as a number of world musicians.
Elinor Bennett is the harpist wife of Dafydd Wigley, who was the MP for Caernarfon and knew about the criminality of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and the paedophile gang (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Elinor Bennett records with Sain.
Sian James is a Welsh traditional folk singer and harpist who has recorded for Sain and BBC Records as well as for her own label, Bos. Siân is from Powys and read music at UCNW (Bangor University). She is well known as an actress on Welsh language TV. Sian is one year older than me, so will have been a student at Bangor at approximately the same time as I was. So not only will Sian have known that Professor William Mathias of the School of Music was alleged to have been sexually exploiting the female students, but Sian will have noticed the activities of the paedophiles' friends who ran UCNW at that time (see post 'Just A Language Divide?'). Being a Welsh speaker from Wales, Sian will have known even more about it all than I did.
So by 1995 some of those closely associated with Sian had dropped their hostility to Rhys and his peers.
By 1995 the voices demanding a public inquiry into the abuse of children in care in north Wales could not be silenced. In May 1995 the Welsh Office – who had concealed the abuse for years – asked Nicola Davies QC to review the police documentation regarding the matter. Nicola found that all documentation since 1989 was missing. In Dec 1995 Nicola concluded that a public inquiry was not in the public interest. Nicola became Dame Nicola and ended up as the Presiding Judge of the Wales Circuit (see post 'This Is What Happened To Nicola, Niclas, Merfyn, Joan and Kathryn').
Rhys Mwyn and his brother Sion Sebon formed a new band, Mangre, in 2000, the year of the publication of the Waterhouse Report. Mwyn went on to manage Catatonia and more recently Jeb Loy Nichols, an American-born singer who is now based in Wales – this prompted a resurrection of Recordiau Anhrefn.
Catatonia was the biggest band of the Cool Cymru scene. Cerys Matthews of Catatonia was the daughter of a Top Doctor who worked in Cardiff and then relocated to west Wales. George Thomas's molesting of underaged boys was common knowledge among Top Doctors in Cardiff (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Before he was Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council, Ioan Bowen Rees was County Secretary of Dyfed County Council in west Wales – his rock star son Gruff was born in Haverfordwest in 1970, whilst Ioan worked for Dyfed County Council. A paedophile gang operated in Dyfed and in wider west Wales for years.
June and Jennifer Gibbons grew up in Haverfordwest but did not become rock stars. Instead they were banged up in Broadmoor in the early 1980s when they were still teenagers for no good reason, after they had passed through Dyfed's special education and child psychology services – but they did insist on telling everyone that they were prostitutes (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').
Cerys Matthews began a career as a psychiatric nurse but discontinued it for reasons which she has never made public. She gave up psych nursing before she was famous and took up busking instead.
Gruff's mate the Super Furry Animals drummer Dafydd Ieuan was also in Yr Anhrefn for a time, playing on their 1993 Peel session – the Furries had supported Yr Anhrefn on a tour of France in 1993. The Furries themselves were formed in Cardiff in 1993. Other members of the group are Dafydd Ieuan's brother Cian Ciaran, Huw Bunford, Guto Pryce – the actor Rhys Ifans is a former member. Rhys Ifans's career began at the paedophiles' friends folly Theatre Clwyd (see posts 'Workers Play Time').
The Furries had all previously played in various other Welsh bands. Rhys Ifans, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce had been together since the early 1990s. After Huw Bunford and Cian Ciaran joined in 1995, they signed to Ankst, a Welsh indie label.
The name of the band came from T-shirts being printed by Gruff Rhys's sister who was making Super Furry Animals T-shirts for the fashion and music collective Acid Casuals .
After gigging in London in late 1995, the Furries were noticed by Creation Records boss Alan McGee at the Camden Monarch club, who signed them to his label. Creation had recently found massive commercial success with Oasis. The Furries have said that having watched their gig, McGee asked them if they could sing in English rather than Welsh in future shows. There are claims that McGee thought that they were speaking Welsh when they were speaking English 'because their accents were so strong'.
If this story is true, it suggests that Alan McGee was very unfamiliar with north Wales – those young men were perfectly understandable by English speakers, they were not elderly hill farmers who were very uncomfortable speaking in English. Gruff Rhys had been to Manchester Metropolitan University, he obviously managed to make himself understood there.
Alan McGee is a businessman and music industry executive who grew up in Glasgow. He has been a record label owner, musician, manager and was a music blogger for 'The Guardian', 2006-10. Since Sept 2011 McGee has blogged for the Huffington Post UK. He is best known for co-founding and running Creation Records, 1983-99 and the Poptones label from 1999-07. By 1992 Creation was heavily in debt and McGee sold half the company to Sony Music. Just when it looked as though Creation would have to go into receivership, Oasis began selling enormous quantities of albums which saved the day.
McGee's position was noted by the Labour Party, who considered him a figurehead of youth culture and courted his influence to spearhead a media campaign prior to the 1997 General Election. McGee was largely responsible for changing Gov't legislation in relation to musicians being able to go on the New Deal which gave musicians three years to develop and be funded by the Gov't instead of having to take other jobs to survive. In 1998, 'Omnibus' made a documentary about McGee and Creation for BBC One.
Blair changed legislation as a result of pressure/lobbying from Alan McGee. So why was it so essential to keep Mr McGee on side then Blair?
McGee was awarded the 'NME' 'Godlike Genius' award in Feb 1996 and Creation Records was awarded "independent label of the year" every year between 1995 and 1998 by 'Music Week'. McGee returned to making music in 1997, collaborating with Ed Ball under the name The Chemical Pilot, releasing the album 'Journey to the Centre of the Mind' in 1998.
While Oasis went on to sell nearly 54 million records by 2008, Creation continued issuing albums by other artists, none of which came near the success of Oasis. Rumours began to circulate of McGee's dissatisfaction with the direction in which Creation had gone. In late 1999 it was announced that Creation Records would close. The final album released by the label was Primal Scream's 2000 release which went gold in the UK. The final single was the third released from that album.
McGee closed Creation Records for good, selling the rest of the shares to Sony in 2000 for an overall price that was staggered through the 1990s of around $30,000,000 (USD). Following Creation's closure, McGee became a property developer, buying houses, flats, a farm in Wales and an office block in Primrose Hill.
The dissolution of Creation Records led to McGee forming Poptones in 2000. McGee also ran the international club night, Death Disco. McGee occasionally DJ's around the globe under the moniker of 'Death Disco'. Death Disco had branches in Glasgow, London, New York City, Budapest and Los Angeles. McGee had no further involvement with Death Disco after 2009.
In May 2007, McGee told the Indie that he was winding down Poptones for financial reasons.
On 12 September 2008, McGee retired from band music management and record company involvement.
In 2007, McGee was made a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), in recognition of the work that he has carried out with students. LIPA was founded by Sir Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty. The 'project champion' was Richard Branson. Featherstone-Witty describes Sir George Martin as the 'Godfather' of LIPA – Martin introduced Branson to Featherstone-Witty. Sir George Martin was the man known as the 'Fifth Beatle', an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. His career spanned more than six decades of work in music, film, television and live performance. Martin held a number of senior executive roles at media companies and contributed to a wide range of charitable causes, including The Prince's Trust and work with the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
In recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture, George Martin was given a knighthood in 1996 – the year in which the Waterhouse Inquiry was announced. Just as Gruff Rhys began to record English language songs and headed for the stars…
HM the Queen Lilibet opened LIPA in June 1996.
In Nov 2008, Alan McGee was appointed visiting fellow on the popular music degree course at the University of Gloucestershire.
Blair might have pursued Alan McGee, but McGee bit the hand that fed him before long. In Jan 2000 he likened the Labour party to Big Brother in Orwell's '1984' and accused Blair of being a control freak. McGee had previously been one of Labour's biggest financial donors, having donated £100,000 to the party.
One of McGee's last acts as Creation Records boss was to use £20,000 of Creation's money to fund Malcolm McLaren's campaign to run for Mayor of London. McLaren immediately stood down when Ken Livingstone finally decided to stand for Mayor.
In late 2009, McGee withdrew his support for the Labour Party. He wrote an article for 'The Sun' in Oct 2009 in which he praised Tory leader David Cameron, saying that 'at least David Cameron looks like a leader'.
'I'll tell you what gets me going and pumps me up – it's people doing the right thing'. Like concealing a paedophile gang which murdered witnesses perhaps Cameron?
In the 2010 General Election, McGee stated that he had voted for Liberal Democrat Roger Williams. Roger Williams was MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, 2001-15. So I presume that Alan McGee lives in the Brecon area.
You've guessed it – there was a paedophile gang in the Brecon area with links to Dafydd et al in north Wales. George Melly had a house near Brecon. The George Melly who appeared at Theatre Gwynedd and whilst he was in Bangor offered to pay a 16 year old boy – whom I knew when he was older – for sex.
I wrote to Roger Williams before he stood down as an MP. I wrote to Roger Williams in 2013 after I was assaulted and injured by a complete stranger who tried to throw me into the path of a moving car. It happened in broad daylight and there were loads of witnesses. The police in Aberystwyth weren't able to investigate or interview the witnesses because after I went to the police station in Aberystwyth to report the attack, they called for medical help because of my injuries and I was sectioned by two Top Docs and a social worker. I was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital where it was later explained to me that I had been unlawfully detained because none of the paperwork had been signed by the Top Doctors, so I was free to go.
I discovered that the woman who attacked me was the daughter of a barrister who had previous for unprovoked violent assaults on people but that her dad got her out of trouble every time.
Full details of the events can be read in my post 'Five Find A Mystery (Partially) Illuminated'.
Roger Williams never replied to my letter.
McGee announced in May 2014 that he had restarted Creation Management.
So how did so many sheep shaggers come to the attention of and indeed end up being embraced by an industry that had been so hostile to them for so many years previously and who obviously had no understanding of their roots because that industry asked them to sing in English – which defeated the point of what those bands were all about? The Furries received some criticism in the Welsh media for singing in English, criticism which the band felt 'completely pissed' about. The band have claimed that the decision to sing in English was taken in order to broaden their fan base.
In Feb 1996, the Furries debut on Creation, 'Hometown Unicorn', became NME's Single of the Week, chosen by guest reviewers Pulp. It was the first Furries single to chart in the UK Top 50. The follow-up, a re-recording of 'God! Show Me Magic', charted at No. 33 upon release in April 1996 and also became NME single of the week. In May 1996, their debut album 'Fuzzy Logic' was released, to wide critical acclaim – this was the first time that Gruff had recorded in English. However sales were slow, but it garnered a little more interest when the next single 'Something 4 the Weekend' was given considerable radio airplay and charted at No. 18 in July 1996.
By Feb 1996 people were loudly demanding an public inquiry into events in the children's homes of north Wales. Nicola Davies QC had stated in Dec 1995 that such an inquiry would not be in the public interest and outrage followed. In the summer of 1996 Secretary of State for Wales William Hague announced that there would be a Public Inquiry into the abuse of children in the care of Gwynedd and Clwyd County Councils since 1974.
The final single from the album, was called 'If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You', a strangely poignant title in view of what was happening to people like me at that time. The Furries themselves consider one of their best songs to be 'The Man Don't Give A Fuck' which came out in Dec 1996. Which was just about when the Waterhouse Inquiry opened.
'The Man Don't Give A Fuck' did much to establish Super Furry Animals as cult heroes, as the song contained the word 'fuck' over 50 times and therefore received practically no airplay. It hit No. 22 in the charts and became Super Furry Animals standard closing number when they played live.
Not giving a fuck was a running theme with the paedophiles' friends. Had Gruff sung a song called 'My Dad And His Mates Are Running A Paedophile Gang' no doubt Gruff would have been even more famous more quickly. He needn't have worried about the dangers of arrest – Jimmy Savile asked four year old girls if they would be his girlfriends and boasted of making a deal with the local police in which it was agreed that if he returned a teenaged runaway to them, he would spend the night with her first and no-one published a word about his numerous sex crimes until after he was dead.
In the late 1980s/early 1990s there was a young man who was mates with another man in the village in which Gruff grew up whose father knew Jimmy Savile. The father concerned was a clergyman who I think lived over near Llandudno but had been involved with Stoke Mandeville Hospital. His son spent a lot of time in the Bethesda area and frequented festivals and music gigs whilst consuming a lot of drugs and alcohol. The son reassured me that Jimmy Savile was a 'twat' and that his dad and everyone at Stoke Mandeville hated him.
The music festivals and gigs in north Wales in the 1990s were popular and frequented by a variety of people across the social spectrum. Two people who particularly enjoyed these events together – and who went to the bigger ones such as Glastonbury – were Jeff Crowther and Gareth Phillips. Jeff was a psychiatric nurse manager at the Hergest Unit and then worked for the drug team on Anglesey and Gareth was a senior nurse in the Hergest Unit. I have mentioned previously that Jeff and Gareth didn't mistreat patients themselves, but they knew exactly what some of their colleagues were doing – and I bet that they knew who Gruff Rhys's father was as well.
In early 1997, Super Furry Animals embarked on the NME Brats Tour and completed work on a follow-up to 'Fuzzy Logic'. Two singles preceded the new album, one being 'The International Language of Screaming'.
Gruff's dad's neighbours couldn't have been screaming much louder but The Man Didn't Give A Fuck.
The new releases featured cover art from Pete Fowler, who went on to design the sleeves of all the Furries releases up until 2007.
The album 'Radiator' hit the shelves in August 1997. Creation did not serve the album particularly well by releasing it just four days after the long-awaited new effort from Oasis, 'Be Here Now'.
There's a message for you Gruff – no matter how many kids were trafficked to celebs by Dafydd and Lucille, you and your friends will always be sheep shaggers in the eyes of those twats…
Two further singles, 'Play It Cool' (released Sept 1997) and 'Demons' (Nov 1997) both hit No. 27 in the charts, suggesting that Super Furry Animals had hit a commercial ceiling. However, somehow they had established themselves as favourites in the music press, a cut above the majority of their Britpop peers…
During 1997 the Waterhouse Inquiry heard evidence in public from former residents of children's homes in north Wales. Accounts of the most serious abuse were given and some people collapsed whilst giving evidence.
The running theme re the Furries and sales seems to have been that outside their home territory of north Wales, the Furries didn't always do that well. Sales were slow and sometimes not very good, but nonetheless they continued to be massively promoted by the music press/industry. Who had to ask them to sing their songs in a different language because they couldn't understand what they were saying – even when they were speaking English.
In early 1998 Super Furry Animals recorded the 'Ice Hockey Hair' EP at Welsh producer and musician Gorwel Owen's house and released it in May. The title track, 'Smokin' became their most successful single up to this point, hitting No. 12 in the charts and leading to a memorable appearance on 'Top of the Pops'.
Now then, now then, guys and gals, we don't usually let sheep shaggers from Bethesda into this business, but I've fixed it for them – as well as for those psychos from Broadmoor. They might know that I'm a twat up in Llanllechid but no-one's going to publish a word.
By the beginning of 1998 no-one was in any doubt that what happened to kids in children's homes in Gwynedd and Clwyd for years was dreadful and that senior managers in the Councils had known what was going on and had either colluded with, or ignored, it.
In Jan 1999, 'NME' readers named the Furries 'best new band', although it was now three years since they had released their debut album. In May 1999, the single 'Northern Lites' – recorded at the Real World Studios – was released and made No. 11 in the charts. Real World Studios was founded by Peter Gabriel and is located near Bath.
In May 1999 the National Assembly for Wales was established, packed to the rafters with new AMs who were paedophiles' friends, served by a civil service composed substantially of former Welsh Office staff who had spent decades concealing the criminality of Dafydd and the gang…
After playing several of the summer festivals, the Furries released 'Fire In My Heart' and embarked on a US and UK tour. They finished their UK tour at the Cardiff International Arena in Cardiff, where they showcased the first ever concert in surround sound and broadcast it on the world wide web.
As Sir Ronald Waterhouse was writing his Report, the UK was swept away by so many talented young people from Wales.
A phenomenon had been created, as well as a whole new image for Wales and Welsh youth. Had Gruff Rhys and his mates not received such frantic promotion from the music industry, Wales and its youth would have been perceived rather differently as a result of the horrors that had emanated from the witness evidence supplied at the Waterhouse Inquiry.
Praise the Lord, we're a musical nation – and Sir Ronnie Waterhouse and Lady Patricia Scotland were paid a great deal of money to call the witnesses liars.
Bring out that harp and give us a tune Mrs Wigley – Lady Wigley now – we're in need of some good PR.
Cool Cymru did wonders for young people in north Wales who had endured years of sneering and marginalisation from the English media and I – and scores of other people whose lives had been destroyed by Gruff Rhys's dad and his mates – purchased the albums of those musicians as well. None of us realised at the time who their parents and parents' friends were. They were simply known as musicians from north Wales who had managed to storm the ramparts of a bastion of Anglo-Americanism, which always goes down well in north Wales. Of course it was not Gruff Rhys who had presided over the biggest child sex abuse scandal that the UK had ever experienced – it was his dad and many of those who had assisted the careers of Gruff and his friends. I find it staggering that this never even got a mention in the media, particularly as the phenomenon that was Gruff Rhys and his mates was taking place at the very time as all those deaths of former kids in care and psych patients in north Wales.
Gruff Rhys's dad Ioan Bowen Rees died in May 1999. We didn't hear much about that either. Not that I'd have had time to attend the funeral, I was recovering from years of effort at keeping myself out of prison and high security hospitals as the crazed allegations and the perjury from the mates of Gryff Rhys's dad had reigned down upon me. There was a lull about the time that Ioan Bowen Rees died, before the paedophiles' friends returned with a vengeance in 2002 and tried to have me imprisoned once more…
In Jan 2000 – one month before the publication of the Waterhouse Report – the Furries released 'Do or Die' and made No. 20. It was last single that the Furries released on Creation Records, as Alan McGee set off to pursue other interests, but then as far as the paedophiles' friends would have been concerned, he'd served his purpose.
Ioan's son was a star!
We are told that it 'had always been the Furries plan' to release their next album on their own label, Placid Casual. It would be 'a deliberate sidestep from their recent work' – an album of Welsh language songs entitled 'Mwng'. Ah, so they could sing in Welsh again now….
A limited edition 7 inch record, 'Ysbeidiau Heulog' – pronounce that correctly then NME – preceded 'Mwng' in May 2000. It was backed with 'Charge', recorded as a Peel Session for the BBC. The title will have just tripped off Peel's tongue… The album, released the same month, sold remarkably well for a non-English LP – it made No. 11 in the charts – and was commended in Parliament for its efforts in keeping the Welsh language alive. Not that anyone had ever noticed Parliament taking a blind bit of notice of the Welsh language's destiny before. We know what the PM at that time – Blair – thought of the Welsh. They were 'the fucking Welsh', as that video clip of Blair losing his temper whilst watching TV demonstrated.
The year of the Waterhouse Report also saw the Furries contribute two tracks for the Liverpool Sound Collage project, which was nominated for a Grammy. They undertook this remixing of unreleased Beatles recordings at the invitation of Paul McCartney, whom they had met at the NME Awards, where they had won Best Live Act.
At about this time, being Welsh was so desirable that people who were not in the least bit Welsh were trying to join the London Welsh Society. One such person was David Frost. David Frost was filmed joking with the Weathergirl – I think that she was about 45 yrs old at the time – Sian Lloyd about the efforts that he had made to get into the London Welsh. I always associate David Frost with 'Through The Keyhole' and being the butt of the jokes of the many people whom he was once mates with in 'Footlights', but of course David Frost took a substantial interest in the wrongdoing of those in high places.
David Frost died in Aug 2013, after Operation Pallial had begun to reinvestigate the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal and as the nation geared up for a review of the Waterhouse Inquiry in the wake of allegations that it had been a huge cover-up. Frost was on a cruise liner and unusually he was travelling alone, not with his wife. He had a heart attack not long after the ship had left port but whilst it was slightly too far away for help from land to be easily available. No Top Doctor in the world could save Frost…
In 2015 Frost's son Miles was found dead after going out jogging. He had died at only 31 yrs of the same condition as his father, which had been ticking away inside him undiagnosed…
With the demise of Creation, the Furries needed to find a new label for their next album. Sony held a substantial stake in Creation and offered a deal to the Furries, who signed with Sony's subsidiary, Epic. The band pushed for a deal which allowed them to take a new album elsewhere if the label wasn't interested in releasing it – thereby allowing them to find a home for any esoteric project which they might want to undertake in the future. Epic were remarkably accommodating, not something which the ruthless greedy recording industry is known for.
The greater resources afforded to the Furries by Epic were apparent in their first album for the label, 'Rings Around the World', released in July 2001. One of the tracks from the album, 'Receptacle For the Respectable' featured Paul McCartney. Another track was 'No Sympathy'.
'Rings Around the World' was the world's first simultaneous release of an audio and DVD album. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2001. The ceremony took place on the day after the terror attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon – the Furries performed the album track 'It's Not The End Of The World'. Well, The Man Don't Give A Fuck does he. 'It's Not The End Of The World' was released as a single in Jan 2002 (chart No. 30), following '(Drawing) Rings Around the World' (chart No. 28). Neither had that much impact but still received some airplay, notably on BBC Radio 2. Which is the station for the middle-aged, who can remember the days before Gary Glitter and others had been convicted of child sexual abuse and when it was believed that teenaged girls on 'Top of the Pops' actually enjoyed the Twat from Stoke Mandeville sporting a T Shirt with the slogan 'If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me?' and asking them to follow the instructions on his shirt. The days when the same girls were ignored if they made allegations of sexual assault against the aforementioned Twat.
Now then, now then, now then, we mustn't give up on these young gentlemen just because no-one is buying their music…
Lucky Gruff – son of one of those whom constituted, as a victim of the paedophiles' friends said to me the other day, 'a corrupt self-serving elite' who ran Gwynedd as 'their fiefdom' – began preparing for stardom many years before it happened. In 1985 Gruff played drums for the north Wales band Machlud, appearing at the Pesda Roc festival in Bethesda and then found fame in Wales as the front man of Ffa Coffi Pawb (translated this name means 'Everyone's Coffee Beans'), which if said quickly in Welsh with a Bethesda accent, can sound like 'fuck off everyone'.
On signing to Ankstmusik, Ffa Coffi Pawb became one of the leading bands on the Welsh music scene.
Ffa Coffi Pawb disbanded in 1993 and Gruff and drummer Dafydd Ieuan from Anglesey – who had played for Catatonia (1993-96), Yr Anhrefn and other Welsh language bands – formed the basis of Super Furry Animals and the legend began…
Gruff's adventures continued after the allegations that Waterhouse had been one massive cover-up died down. In Jan 2005, Gruff released his first solo album, 'Yr Atal Genhedlaeth', on the Placid Casual label. A tour of Wales and several festival appearances followed. After Super Furry Animals signed to Rough Trade, the new label agreed to take on Gruff's solo work as well and in 8 January 2007 they released 'Candylion'. A third solo album by Rhys, 'Hotel Shampoo' was released in Feb 2011. In March 2011, it was announced that Rhys would be playing at Glastonbury 2011.
In 2006 Gruff formed ieie Productions with his partner Catryn Ramasut in to produce film and television projects. Catryn had previously worked for BBC Radio 1, Marmalade Magazine and M and C Saatchi, better known to people of my vintage as the dreadful Saatchi and Saatchi.
You're in good company Maurice and Charles – the paedophiles' friends of north Wales!
In 2010, Dylan Goch's film 'Separado!' premiered, a documentary about Gruff Rhys's trip to Patagonia in search of his forebears who had emigrated in the 19th century. In 2014, Dylan and Gruff co-directed a film about the Welsh explorer John Evans, 'American Interior'. 'American Interior' was a combined project of an album, a film, a book and an app for mobile devices.
In Dec 2015-Jan 2016, Rhys fronted a co-production with National Theatre Wales, 'The Insatiable, Inflatable Candylion'. The music and lyrics were by Gruff Rhys and the play's text by Tim Price. The musicians appearing with Rhys were Lisa Jen Brown (who also sang on the original album), Sweet Baboo, Emma Daman Thomas and Kilph Scurlock. The show also included actors Remy Beasley, Matthew Bulgo, Dyfan Dwyfor, Natasha Lewis and Dyfrig Morris.
Lisa Jen Brown is from Bethesda. I don't know if her family are paedophiles' friends, but her biography ticks all the right boxes for One Who Is Talented from Gwynedd. She landed a part in the S4C drama 'Rownd a Rownd' at 14 years old, because it 'was just fortunate enough that my drama school, Ysgol Glanaethwy, was right on the doorstep of where they happened to be filming. So when the show's producers came knocking, my mum, who runs a stage company called Theatr Bara Caws in Caernarfon, told me to go for it'.
I think that mum holds the key here – kids in care didn't just happen to get enrolled at Ysgol Glanaethwy, on the doorstep of someone who was conveniently filming an S4C drama and in need of the talents of a 14 year old girl who's mum was part of the cylch.
Lisa had bigger ambitions though – 'I did keep trying to audition for various London acting schools, but every year I'd get offered another series worth of work on the show'. So she didn't get any offers from London then and had to carry on slumming it on the 'Rownd a Rownd' set in Menai Bridge.
Lisa found a way of getting a nice place in London however: 'One of my best friends went on to buy a place in Camden and practically demanded I move in with her'. Life's a bitch though, as Lisa explains: 'I found trying to make it as an actress up there really hard and would constantly be running back to Wales to do bits and bobs in the theatre or on telly, like voicing kids' cartoons on S4C' sighs Lisa. 'It just seemed to me that the casting directors in London can't take anyone seriously unless they've got a long list of English-speaking credits on their CV. They tend not to take you seriously if your resume is full up with Welsh parts, no matter how good, because they aren't aware of the high calibre of talent that we have down here.'
Yes the place is brimming over with the indulged children of the local elite with a massive sense of entitlement. Although Lisa's working life sounds a bit like that of the Viz magazine's character Luvvie Darling, who spends most of his time 'resting' in between doing 20 second voice overs for kiddies TV or adverts, Lisa really scraped the barrel: 'The absolute lowest point, though, came when I went up for an Immac commercial and all they wanted to do was look at all the actresses' legs'.
Lisa Jen – Immac is flogged to women on the basis that they will be left with a pair of smooth, shiny, hairless legs, of course they will have been assessing you on your legs, that is the USP for Immac, you don't need a PhD in theoretical physics to do the Immac commercials.
Jen did however find a fulfilling job eventually: 'I did enjoy working in Agent Provocateur in Soho because I got to dress up every day in high heels and stockings to sell expensive knickers and bras to the punters' she says.
Dafydd and Lucille will be proud of her.
During her six years in London, Lisa met her husband Martin Hoyland, the guitarist from 1990s alt-rockers 'Pusherman'. They have now returned to Gwynedd and live in Lisa's grandmother's old cottage at Gerlan, near Bethesda.
Lisa has in the past provided backing vocal sessions for Cerys Matthews.
Dyfan Dwyfor is a Welsh actor from Cricieth who now lives in London. He attended Ysgl Eifionydd, Porthmadog and Coleg Meirion Dwyfor before going on to Ysgol Glanaethwy. He graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2007. Dyfan's career began when he bagged a part in 'Rownd a Rownd' on S4C…
On 17 Dec 2011, Gruff Rhys joined the Manic Street Preachers on stage during the 'A Night of National Treasures' live event at the O2 Arena in London.
The Manic Street Preachers were also part of the Cool Cymru phenomenon, but although they have performed and played on occasions with Gruff and co, the Manic Street Preachers are from south Wales – Blackwood – and don't seem to be intimately networked with quite so many paedophiles' friends as Gruff and his friends from north Wales. Furthermore Richey Edwards, the Manic Street Preacher who disappeared in Feb 1995 and has not been seen since, suffered from many of the very same problems as did those who were left to kill themselves by the Social Services Dept which Gruff's dad ran.
On 21 April 2016, Gruff Rhys released a new song entitled 'I Love EU', a song praising the EU ahead of the June 2016 EU referendum.
In July 2015, Gruff received an Honorary Fellowship from Bangor University. Gruff's cousin, DJ and music promoter Huw Stephens, was also honoured – their mutual grandfather was President of the Students Union at what was then UCNW. Gruff Rhys is also the cousin of musician MC Mabon (Gruff Meredith).
I cannot find any references to the name of the grandfather who was SU President at UCNW, but it will have been Ioan Bowen Rees's father, who taught at Dolgellau Grammar School. Bronwen Astor, the wife of Bill Astor when the Profumo Affair exploded, went to school in Dolgellau (see post 'In Memoriam – Bronwen, Lady Astor).
Ioan's grandfather had been a missionary in Ndebeland -now Zimbabwe – where he was placed under the protection of King Lobengula during the 1890s Bantu uprisings.
Ioan Bowen Rees was born in 1929. So his father would probably have been leading the Students Union at UCNW in the early-mid 1920s or thereabouts.
The President of UCNW, 1900-27, was Lord Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, a member of the Conservative Govt's of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour, then of Lloyd George's Coalition Gov't. He was ADC to King George V in 1912.
Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon – who was known by the social services to be sexually exploiting boys in care in north Wales and after being caught in the act made a complaint of theft against the boy involved who was then sent to a detention centre – was the grandson of the 4th Baron Kenyon. Thomas, who never faced any action regarding his activities with the boys in care, died of AIDS in 1993. See post 'A Bit More Paleontology' for further details of Thomas.
Lloyd's son, Thomas's father, the 5th Baron – also called Lloyd – was a Tory peer and President of UCNW, 1947-82. The 5th Baron was Provincial Grand Master of the North Wales Freemasons, member of the North Wales Police Authority, a leading light in the local NHS bodies and Chairman of Clwyd Area Health Authority, 1974-78, a Flintshire County Councillor, Deputy Lieutenant for Flintshire, ad infinitum. Which places Lord Kenyon at the scene of a great many crimes. A paedophiles' friend and a paedophiles' father.
The 5th Baron Kenyon was a Director of Lloyds Bank.
For further details about the Kenyon dynasty and the other paedophiles' friends who governed UCNW and the University of Wales, please see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'.
Gruff's grandfather will have had the dirt on naughtiness in high places reaching back as far as Lloyd George and King George V and no doubt Gruff's dad did as well.
Gruff's cousin Huw Stephens was born in Cardiff. He is the son of the author and literary journalist Meic Stephens. Huw really did make it big overnight and at a tender age. Huw joined Radio 1 in 1999 at the age of 17 as part of the station's new regional output, where he hosted the Wales opt-out with Bethan Elfyn. Huw had previously been a DJ on Rookwood Sound Hospital Radio in Llandaff. In 2005, Huw gained a national slot when he became one of the replacements for the late John Peel and Huw has never looked back.
Hospital radio in Llandaff to Radio 1 at the age of 17? That's pretty impressive. In 1999 as well – just before the Waterhouse Report was published.
Ah, Wales has got talent…
Huw's dad, Meic Stephens is a Welsh literary editor, journalist, translator and poet. Meic came from Treforest, near Pontypridd. He studied at Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities and at the University of Rennes in Brittany.
From 1962-66, Stephens taught French at Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire.
In Merthyr Tydfil, Stephens established the Triskel Press and in 1965 he began the periodical, 'Poetry Wales'.
Meic Stephens learnt Welsh as an adult and became a member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Cymraeg and of Plaid. So Meic will be well connected to a great many people who were paedophiles' friends themselves or who knew that they would be finished by association if the truth regarding the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal ever got out.
From 1967-90, Meic Stephens was literature director of the Welsh Arts Council. Before retiring he was Professor of Welsh Writing in English at the University of Glamorgan. He was also a visiting professor in the English department of Brigham Young University, Utah, US. He has written for the 'Western Mail' and writes obituaries of eminent Welsh people for the Indie.
As a member of Cymdeithas, Meic will know all about Meri Huws, who was a colleague of the paedophiles of north Wales in the 1980s when she worked as a social worker for Gwynedd Social Services. Meri was a leading light in Cymdeithas in her youth, but being Meri and having fallen out with everyone, she is never mentioned by the Cymdeithas veterans unless it is in a derogatory manner. They loathe her and were livid when she was appointed as Welsh Language Commissioner, alleging that it was yet another job that Meri had bagged by shagging Ministers in the Welsh Gov't (see post 'People With Energy').
Another person who knows much of the info that I have posted up on this blog is a former UCNW student who was doing her PhD in the same Dept as me when I was an undergrad – Stel Farrar. Stel will in fact know much more than me, because she had a relationship with one of the lecturers – John Farrar – whilst she was an undergrad and later married him. John Farrar ended up as PVC for Research and was memorably described to me as 'the second most hated man in Bangor', after Farrar had experienced a heart attack after a screaming row with the Senior PVC, Professor Fergus Lowe, 'the most hated man in Bangor' (see post 'He's Not The Messiah, He's A Very Naughty Boy'). How the oppressed laughed as these utter bastards who had made so many lives so unbearable for so many years fought like ferrets in a sack.
After the most hated man in Bangor had nearly succeeded in killing the second most hated man in Bangor, Farrar decided that he didn't want to be a PVC anymore and that he would retire. A polite e mail was sent around the staff explaining that there wouldn't be a party because 'John doesn't want a fuss' – which was just as well because he wasn't going to get one – but if anyone would like to leave a donation for a gift, there was a collection being organised. E mails were sent between staff with comments such as (from a lecturer who kept sheep on his small hill farm), 'well I've got a bag of shit that he's welcome to'.
During the Fungus/Farrar Years of Oppression, Stel bagged herself a job as a Welsh teacher with Meri Huws's dysfunctional empire, the School of Lifelong Learning. Meri was also a PVC and it was a real laugh because Farrar, Meri and Fungus all hated each other.
Meri's departure from Bangor University was even better than Farrar's. There was a party but the arrangements were kept secret lest the event was gatecrashed by well-wishers. I and a friend managed to find out the date of the event and we searched the corridor in Top College which housed the organs of gov't in the hope of finding Meri pissed and screaming as was her habit after a few drinks, but we were unsuccessful. I was later told that the VC had organised an event to which a small number of trusted people were invited who could be relied upon not to take the piss. The ever polite VC then sent out a message thanking Meri for her 'unique contribution' to the University…
He couldn't be any ruder because it was alleged that Meri was a former bedfellow of Rhodri Morgan who at that time was FM.
There was so much dirt accompanied by so much swearing sent around on the staff e mails about these three PVCs that people began to get worried lest the university authorities had installed a programme to detect terms of abuse relating to the PVCs in staff e mails. Until one Professor reassured everyone with the observation that if such a programme had been installed it would crash from overwork within about five minutes.
Stel and John Farrar have a son – Robin. He's a leading light in Cymdeithas and regularly appears in the media in Wales demanding that Carwyn should show greater commitment to the Welsh language and more importantly should hand over a lot more dosh to Meri et al.
Gruff's fellow Furries band members Dafydd Ieuan and Cian Ciaran run the Cardiff-based label and recording studio Strangetown Records. Dafydd Ieuan released 'The Golden Mile' in 2008, with Rhys Ifans on vocals. In 2013, Dafydd Ieuan recorded with Catatonia's former guitarist Mark Roberts.
Dafydd Ieuan and Cian Ciaran's dad is Top Doctor Carl Clowes! Carl is well-known in north Wales and has been the subject of a number of controversies regarding some of the good works with which he has been involved, controversies which usually seemed to centre around allegations involving the finances of the projects. Carl Clowes is a community champ, a Welsh language campaigner and an anti-nuclear campaigner.
Dr Carl Clowes is a former public health consultant for Gwynedd and is currently a Board member of Public Health Wales. Public Health Wales is a receptacle for those paedophiles' friends who have been sacked by everyone else in north Wales but who have so much dirt on their colleagues that no-one can afford to turn them completely loose. Carl is the Board rep for the Third sector, so if anyone wonders who is responsible for ensuring that MIND and Dafydd's charity CAIS continue to receive millions in taxpayers money, the finger points, partly at least, at Carl.
Carl graduated from Manchester Medical School in the late 1960s. He has said that he particularly loved going to 'Top of the Pops' in the converted chapel in Rusholme, which acted as a studio in the early days of the programme.
Now then, now then…
Carl maintains that Manchester 'remains a city with a human touch'. It was to gay clubs in Manchester that the empowered service users detained under the Mental Health Act in Prestwood Homes were being taken to enable them to meet 'people like them'. Clients were abused at Prestwood and it was very obviously a people trafficking organisation disguised as a chain of care homes. No-one ever managed to find out who owned the considerable business which was Prestwood, but the manager was an associate of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones. See posts 'A Convenient Arrangement With The Private Sector' and 'News Round Up And Crime Report, May 14 2017' for details of the nightmare that was Prestwood Homes.
After graduation, Carl Clowes worked as a junior doctor in Manchester Royal Infirmary, Stepping Hill Hospital and in Llangwyfan Chest Hospital in North Wales returning to Manchester and postgraduate studies in the Christie Hospital.
Dafydd's network reached as far as Manchester University (see posts 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…' and 'The Mentor') as did Dr Tony Francis's (Dr X's) network, (see post 'Ian Brockington's Mischief'). Tony Francis's wife Sadie worked at Manchester with him – I think that Sadie trained at Manchester.
When Carl Clowes left Manchester he moved to Llanaelhaearn on the Llŷn Peninsula to work in a single-handed GP dispensing practice.
Carl has observed that 'Whatever one's talents or interests, medicine offers a unique opportunity for personal development'.
You can even run a pan-European paedophile ring, remain untouchable whilst victims and witnesses are found dead and still the media will spout rubbish about your talents and your compassion and explain that the havoc over which you are presiding will be resolved if only you are given more money. In the event of a police investigation, you can use your influential network to construct your children as musical prodigies.
Carl has said that working on the Llyn 'proved to be a remarkably profitable period of my life, as I came face-to-face with a community in serious decline and facing all the consequential health problems'. As a single-handed GP working in a dispensing practice – and the only GP for miles around as well – Carl will not only have wielded considerable influence in the area, but will have been able to do whatever he wanted without scrutiny. He will have been able to attribute the 'serious decline' in the community and the 'consequential health problems' to any reason convenient for him, rather than explain that there was a sex trafficking gang operating in the region which was facilitated by a network of professional people who were also dipping their hands into the till whenever it suited them.
Carl helped set up Cymdeithas y Pentrefwyr (Villagers' Society) in Llanaelhaearn, where the village school was facing closure as a consequence of severe population decline in the area. This led to Carl 'Chairing Antur Aelhaearn, the first 'community cooperative' in the UK. The villagers became shareholders in their own development 'trust', so revitalising the area; inter alia, they built their own workshops, established an Eisteddfod, a community centre and playground and are currently working on a proposal to ensure Llanaelhaearn becomes a 'green village'. In 2014, Antur celebrated its 40th anniversary. Carl maintains that the rationale was to 'address some of the area's need and restore confidence in the population, to great success'.'
Well I'm staggered to hear that Carl, because after leaving Bethesda I lived a few miles down the road from Llanaelhaearn for a few years. I loved it out there, it is a beautiful place with mountains and sea. But the local people have bugger all. They have worked very hard to keep that community pub of theirs going and I think that their community shop is still in business as well, but the only person who could ever claim that it is not a community in decline enduring serious disadvantage is a Top Doctor called Carl Clowes who does not live on the limited incomes of people in Llanaelhaearn.
There are at present plans to close yet more rural schools in Gwynedd, because the Council cannot afford to maintain them. If I had children I would want them to attend a small Welsh medium school, at least whilst they were of primary age – many of those schools are very good. But even Dafydd Iwan has now appeared in the Welsh media to support the village schools closure programme – because there is no dosh left. There is no dosh left because for decades the paedophiles' friends have gobbled and troughed and grossly mismanaged, whilst feathering their own nests and ruthlessly excluding anyone who looked like they might have known what they were doing. They've had the lot, there is nothing left. And as Dafydd Iwan sung at every gig he did – 'Yma O Hyd' (this translates as 'We're Still Here'). Yes that's the fucking trouble Dafydd, you are still there and so are all the dipsticks who brought north Wales to its knees. The councils are in crisis, there's no dosh, there's no services, the NHS has collapsed and no-one will work for it anyway and young people are leaving at an even greater rate than before. Because the whole bloody region is run by the paedophiles' friends. So who are you going to blame now that crunch point has been reached Dafydd?
Never mind, Gruff and his friends are famous!
Another Top Doctor owned a house near Carl's turf at Llanaelheaern – Tony Francis. He purchased a second home there during the Time Of The Great Panic, in the run up to the Waterhouse Inquiry.
It was all a bit weird – Tony Francis lived on Anglesey and had just acquired a rather grand place at Dwyran as his main home. The alleged purpose of the cottage at Trefor was for him to stay in whilst he was working down on the Llyn – his duties had been redefined and he was given responsibility for the patients down there. By this time Francis was at complete loggerheads with every one of his colleagues and was very obviously cracking up. He was being treated appallingly by all of them, we witnessed it – he was being blatantly insulted by the other Top Docs and Angels were telling patients that he was 'mentally ill'. For his part, Francis made efforts to get patients on his side in his battle with his colleagues – ironically, we did support him. We could see how they were treating him and we all hated them because they had abused us for years anyway – but none of us knew what Francis was trying to do to us without our knowledge.
The reality was that the whole bloody lot of them had concealed the paedophile gang and now that Waterhouse was approaching they were turning on each other – and asking the patients whom they had mistreated to save them.
Francis only owned the cottage at Trefor for about 10 minutes. Matters went inexplicably pear shaped and he decided that he wasn't going to be the consultant for the Llyn after all and he sold his house there.
I am trying to work out why Francis wanted domain over that region as Waterhouse approached. There was a complete can of worms in the Police Station and Magistrates Court at Pwllheli, they were bastions of the paedophiles' friends and were used to fit people up when all other methods had failed. Francis was also involved in concealing questionable matters at the holiday camp at Pwllheli – it was for years a Butlin's, but then it changed its name – which received many young working class people from Merseyside every summer, as staff and visitors. Francis's relocation to the Dwyfor area will definitely have been linked to the Great Cover-Up.
If Carl the Empowerer – who knew Tony Francis – knows what the explanation is, perhaps he could enlighten me.
In 1988, Carl convened and subsequently Chaired Fforwm Iaith Genedlaethol (National Language Forum), which brought together 26 Welsh language organisations to campaign for a new Welsh Language Act. In 1991, also as Chair, Carl was responsible for developing the first ever comprehensive strategy for the future of the Welsh language.
The use of Welsh – even in the language stronghold of Gwynedd – has declined since 1988.
Between 1988-90, Carl 'stepped out of the NHS' to work with the local authority Cyngor Dwyfor and the endemically corrupt WDA to engineer a socio-economic development strategy for the Llŷn Peninsula.
I got to know some of the local young people from the area, because they were the friends of the children of the person whom I shared a house with. One local young man had serious drug problems and was also dealing to fund his own habit. The other young people were so wary of him that they asked their parents to make excuses so that they could avoid him if he called over to their houses.
There is a village called Clynnog Fawr some eight miles from Llanaelhaearn and between 2002-07, I lived nearby. I used to pop into the pub at Clynnog because the children of my friends worked in there – the pub was staffed virtually entirely by local young people who needed casual work as there was no other employment for them in the area.
The pub served the local population and was fairly quiet but did have a steady trade. Then the pub was purchased by someone who lived in Chester and he decided to go upmarket and aim for a complete different market – foodies and tourists. The man who purchased the pub paid for an advertising campaign on the local radio and much was made of the fact that the pub was under new management and now had aspirations to be a bit posh. A new manageress was installed who imposed a regime of terror and the local young people who worked there found the atmosphere so unpleasant that they began leaving as soon as they could.
When winter arrived, the pub was virtually empty. My friend explained to me that the new manageress 'has banned all the old alkies and they're the only customers in the winter'. I used to go in the pub with the old alkies – I'm not sure that they were actually alkies, they were a group of local elderly men who lived nearby, but they definitely weren't foodies. Then someone else I knew who enrolled for a counselling course at Chester University discovered that one of her fellow students was the owner of the pub. He knew nothing about the socio-economic problems of the area – he didn't know how badly the manageress was treating staff either – and didn't realise that most of the local people didn't have enough money to dine in style regularly, so once the tourists had gone home there would be no customers with foodie desires.
Whilst I lived near Clynnog a few other memorable things happened in Carl Clowes's empowered community. A man who used a wheelchair and who had mental health problems was imprisoned for a murderous attack on his elderly mother, after the Top Docs at the Hergest Unit refused to admit him on the grounds that he was 'dangerous' and should be prosecuted. The murderous attack consisted of the man – who had a long standing depressive illness – waving a pair of garden shears at his mother and saying that he wished that he could kill both of them. He then dropped the shears, started crying and his mum rang the doctor. It was the biggest mistake she made. After her middle-aged depressed son was imprisoned, the prison admitted that it did not have the facilities for a man with such severe physical disabilities and also stated that he should be in a mental health unit anyway, such were his problems.
Then another even sadder event happened. One of the young men I knew who had worked in the pub died in freak accident, which wasn't the fault of anyone. His mum had been raped when she was young and had taken to drink. She had not been offered any help from the mental health services at any time. She managed to remain in work and for a while worked in Morrison's supermarket. This lady was also epileptic and when Morrison's found out, she was harassed by the management until she left her job. She ended up living in B&B accommodation for the homeless in Caernarfon – accommodation which was owned by two people who worked in the Housing Dept at Gwynedd County Council who were making a bomb by charging nearly £1000/week for the substandard accommodation. Which was paid for by Gwynedd County Council…
There was a social worker employed by Gwynedd County Council who lived near Clynnog. She told someone I know that she avoided going into the Post Office at Clynnog because the trouble was that she would bump into her clients if she went in there and she really didn't want to have to speak to them. That particular problem resolved itself when the Post Office closed down.
People often laugh at Brown and me and ask us how we discover so much of this sort of thing. The answer is simple. We have been/are friends with so many who have been crapped upon that we know what is really happening to them, so we don't rely on media interviews given by the paedophiles' friends for our information regarding 'the community'. Furthermore, throughout my many years in north Wales, it was an assorted collection of hippies, mental health patients and friendly neighbours who were small businessmen or farmers who were the main source of help for me as the paedophiles' friends did everything possible to see me destitute and in prison. Sadly a number of those who helped me then came under fire from the paedophiles' friends and found themselves accused of child abuse or were inexplicably denied NHS treatment for serious medical conditions.
After empowering everyone in the Clynnog/Llanaelhaearn area, Carl Clowes returned to Powys and become Medical Director – he was previously Director of Planning and a Public Health Consultant in Powys – then retired early in 2000 to 'follow two projects' that he'd led in the 1970s and 1980s.
In recent weeks it has been admitted that the children's services in Powys have been riddled with problems for years and are now no longer functioning. Neither does Powys have a functioning mental health service or indeed many other basic health and social care services. Machynlleth has a vibrant community group who are real stars and they are doing just about everything that in previous years was the job of the NHS or social services. They are also providing food and legal advice for people who have been left destitute after their benefits have been stopped, sometimes unlawfully. Sadly that group are not legally allowed to prescribe opiates for pain relief or carry out root canal treatment – I suspect that if they were, they'd probably do a better job than a hissy fitting member of the BMA.
The first project that Carl became involved with was Nant Gwrtheyrn, a language centre that was part of a wider scheme to develop a former quarrying village in order to improve employment opportunities for the locals. Carl lists Nant Gwrtheyrn as one of his greatest achievements. Carl stated that 'Some 30,000 people have gained from courses at the centre and, at the last count, some 27 countries were represented in the 'mix' of origin of the attendees'.
That is probably true, Nant Gwrtheyrn is a great place if you want to go on a residential Welsh course or want a coffee in the cafe before you walk along the cliff to look at the wild goats and ravens. But Carl knows as well as I do that Nant Gwrtheyrn has done bugger all for people living on its doorstep. It is a visitor attraction for tourists or people with enough dosh and leisure time to hang out down there.
The 'employment opportunities' are low paid jobs – that may only exist during the summer months – staffing the cafe, cleaning the houses etc. Carl boasts that Nant Gwrtheyrn has provided 30 jobs and is the major employer in the area. Which simply demonstrates how dire the employment opportunities are in that part of Gwynedd. Furthermore Nant Gwrtheyrn is at the bottom of a massively steep valley, miles away from anywhere with no public transport. So the folk in those poorly paid part-time jobs will need their own transport to get to work. For those who have got transport, the cost of keeping the car on the road to enable them to get to their jobs in the cafe or doing the cleaning will erode their part-time earnings.
I am very familiar with life in that part of the world and the everyday story of local folk is of people who are spending money keeping old bangers going so they can drive over to clean the holiday cottages for a few hours on two or three days per week because there is no other work for many miles. In the summer there is a bonanza when Hafan y Mor, a holiday park near Pwllheli, opens for business and the caravans and chalets need doing, so everyone heads for the 'employment opportunities' there. That is not a bed of roses though – Hafan y Mor is a totalitarian regime.
One of my friends used to work at Hafan y Mor and related the tale of the elderly man who used to do the gardens there, who, after working his knackers off all morning, sat on a bench to have a drink from his flask. At the time Hafan y Mor had been booked by a 'community group' providing cheap holidays for the disadvantaged and one of the guests saw the gardener on the bench and asked him to do something for her. The gardener said – but not rudely – that he was just on his break but would get onto it as soon as he'd finished. The guest reported him to the management – I was told that Hafan y Mor was plastered in notices encouraging the guests to complain if they were less than 100% satisfied with the service – and the gardener was given a formal warning.
My friend neatly summed it up with the comment 'a service user on a cheap holiday nearly got him the sack'.
Hafan y Mor are in a position to sack people for trivial reasons because the locals are desperate for work, so matter how bum their deal, that there'll always be someone else coming along…
Carl Clowes was never in danger of losing his job as the result of a complaint from a service user.
Carl's second project was Dolen Cymru, which acted as a link between Wales and Lesotho in Africa to 'facilitate educational, health, religious and cultural people exchanges between the two countries'. Carl Chaired Dolen Cymru from its outset in 1985 and is Honorary Consul for Lesotho in Wales. Carl has explained that 'At a personal level, this engagement with sub-Saharan Africa opened up many opportunities for me and, also, health colleagues who have spent time in the country… The challenges of working with minimal resources, few trained staff and enormous clinical problems has helped focus the mind of many a clinician involved in the country.' Carl continues to visit Lesotho annually.
In 2009, King Letsie III made Carl Clowes a Member of the Most Loyal Order of Ramatseatsana for his work in developing the Dolen Cymru link.
No doubt Dolen Cymru was established with the best will in the world, but as with so many things, the Top Docs and paedophiles' friends have colonised it and caused havoc. There have been internal rows and allegations of dishonesty and financial mismanagement – Dr Graham Thomas, a former Hergest Unit doctor who was a neighbour of mine, seemed to be at the centre of the discord. Graham is a leading light in the BMA.
People keep asking me if any of the Top Docs have contacted me with regard to this blog. Only one has- Graham Thomas. Who accused me of libelling him. Graham's comment and my responses, as well as the responses of other readers, can be read in the comments column with follows my post 'Correction and Apology'. I did invite Graham to expand on his accusation but I heard no more. Just to clarify, I have never accused Graham of the sort of abuse or negligence which I witnessed on the part of so many of his colleagues, I only ever heard that Graham was a good consientious doctor in terms of his conduct at work – but Graham most certainly knows about the misconduct and criminality of his colleagues and he has kept schtum.
One service that is provided by Dolen Cymru is excellent PR for the paedophiles' friends working in the Wales NHS.
Carl Clowes gave an interview in which he told young people that if opportunities 'don't arise, create them!'. They don't all have a hot line to the WDA like you Carl, those working at Hafan y Mor are not going to be given a few million to develop a nice but minority interest tourist attraction – they'll be the people who are paid the minimum wage throughout the summer months to serve the coffees and do the cleaning….
Carl maintains that 'Doors seem to have a habit of opening or closing, as the case may be!' Interestingly enough Carl, if you blow the whistle on a sex trafficking ring or you help someone who has, a lot of doors seem to slam shut very firmly and very quickly. Including the cell door behind you in Walton Prison or Broadmoor.
Regarding the NHS in Wales, Carl's pearls include – 'One of the biggest challenges in Wales is to make sure we know what impacts on the public's health and work to get those factors right'.
In 2012, Carl was given an OBE for his work 'in the community in Anglesey. He has also been honoured by the National Eisteddfod and is a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards – as are a number of Dafydd's and Lucille's associates. In 2014 Carl was awarded the Alumni Medal for Social Responsibility by the University of Manchester.
I have seen no evidence that Antur Aelhaearn has made any difference to the rates of hypertension, diabetes and depression in the community, no matter what other benefits the project may have conferred. Carl believes that it 'is that with an empowered community, individuals are also empowered and these wider determinants can have a lasting impact on important health indices'.
I invite readers to pop up and have a look at Llanaelhaearn. There isn't a great deal of empowerment going on. There are decent people doing their best in a region in which they and their children have been priced out of the housing market, because no-one can buy a house from their earnings at Nant Gwertheryn. Indeed it is getting very difficult for people in that position to even rent somewhere. Carl and his children will not face the same problems, although one of Carl's famous sons did mention that he left Anglesey because there were no opportunities for him there. Presumably Carl's son did not relocate to the Llyn to clean the cottages at Nant Gwertheryn. As with so many of the brainwaves that emanate from the paedophiles' friends, those are the jobs that other people's children do.
Carl has also been involved in international public health projects, including the NGO Medical Emergency Relief International's (MERLIN) Tuberculosis programme in Tomsk, Siberia, an HIV programme in Mizoram, India and the restructuring of primary care services in Cambodia with French children's charity 'Enfants et Dévelopment'.
A few days ago the Daily Post Online ran a story about an employee of the DWP in Caernarfon Job Centre who has won a case of disability discrimination against the DWP, after evidence was produced of truly dreadful conduct on the part of the managers of Caernarfon Job Centre. Which will not surprise anyone with knowledge of how Caernarfon Job Centre has conducted business for years.
There is a man who a few years ago was employed by Caernarfon Job Centre – and might well still be – who could a few tales about the paedophiles' friends. The security man there, Dewi. Dewi is a sort of hired thug who is as rude and intimidating as possible to the clients of Caernarfon Job Centre. It must be a retirement job because Dewi will be past 65 now. I remember Dewi really well from his days as a younger hired thug. Dewi used to be the security man in the Students Union when I was a student. I heard a great many anecdotes about Dewi and his enjoyment of using uncalled for excessive force against the male students. I didn't expect to ever have a confrontation with Dewi myself, because I was female and didn't tend to frequent the boozing sessions in the SU – Dewi usually targeted boys who had been in the bar, so that he could use the excuse of drunken students for his excessive force.
However I did encounter Dewi. After I complained about Gwynne the lobotomist, it was Dewi who was called upon to throw me out of the SU building – and unlawfully grab my bag and chuck it outside – repeatedly. Dewi was a personal friend of the nurse employed by the Student Health Centre, Liz Stables – Liz was a mate of Dafydd's.
Dewi used to live on the Maesgeirchan estate, just outside of Bangor. Which was the location of Ty'r Felin, the children's home where the kids were abused and trafficked for sex work, to Dolphin Square as well as to other places (see post 'Are You Local?').
As a hired thug who socialised with other thugs and friends of Dafydd, Dewi will have known a great deal about the paedophile gang whom he was assisting.
If the police want to have a word with Dewi, he's the one in Caernarfon Job Centre who's quite short and muscular with a 1970s walrus moustache and a lot of gold jewellery. Who looks like an ageing henchman for serious criminals.