>>108352406reminder that Margaret Thatcher was his close personal friend and even spent Christmas with him on at least two occasions, and was also responsible for him being appointed to the board of a hospital trust in whose hospitals he conducted much of his abuse of the living and the dead
reminder that the papers that should have been released on those and other matters concerning Thatcher's government were held back "for security reasons" by the present government
reminder that there's no way in hell between room 105 at the BBC (which existed solely to root out undesirables and actually kept even remotely left-wing individuals from working in positions of influence or programme making for about 50 years in the post-war settlement) and the standard security vetting for anybody who is to spend time around the Prime Minister that Thatcher hadn't been made aware of the numerous police investigations across multiple forces that already existed into Savile prior to the 1980s as well as contemporaneous complaints about his conduct
Thatcher backed England's most prolific sex offender against the advice of her own spooks
>>108352636people tend to "shelter" individuals who commit abuse because the alternative is that everybody loses their job (best case scenario; abuser goes to prison, others who sheltered them go too), but the middle ground between that and nothing happening involves anybody who doesn't look the other way losing their job
and you're basically out of the business, which means restarting your career, which, I mean it's hard to explain to a generation that think ordering food from an app in the middle of the night and having it couriered over by just whatever guy has a bike from an industrial container with a filthy kitchen inside it is normal, but in the past, there were these things called careers, and you progressed up them and got better money later on because of something called experience
they had families to think about
