I would like to drag the reader back to a posting I put on the system on 5th October 2015 entitled “St Bede’s College in Manchester And All That”, where in the second half of that article I complained about Slater and Gordon’s handling of a case involving two old […]
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St Bede’s College In Manchester And All That.
I have just returned from Macedonia and I am in the process of producing a blog or two about my trip but in the meantime just one or two thoughts on my old Alma Mater and the diocese that runs the establishment. In my inbox as I returned was an […]
Critical Claptrap
I am all for criticism, keeps one on one’s toes you know but some stuff that gets sent to me is pure balderdash but looks good because the writer seems educated and erudite. Here for your very eyes are four pages of neatly typed A4 but lacking a signature, which […]
Anthony William Martin “Spike” RIP
Well I was here back in Manchester for the second time in a month, the last time was full of joy for my new grandchild but this time was a sad mission. I was here to attend the Requiem Mass of a truly great and good man. I had been […]
Friends Of St Bede’s College In Manchester (FOBCIM)
Let me introduce you to a new group, a pressure group if you like, who have resolved not to pressure anybody as long as things are going along the right road. We are Friends of St Bede’s College in Manchester (FOBCIM) or FOBs for short I set out in 2011 […]
To Be Or Not To Be.
Before I begin this little but very important blog posting I would just like to register myself as a definite confirmed heterosexual of unambiguously male gender and so can only look at today’s subject with a sympathetic outsider’s eye. I am writing as I feel after my small amount of […]
Ebola is in the Diocese Of Salford
Well with Bishop Terence Brainless back-scuttling it out of the Salford Diocesan door, we have another criminal being inserted into his troubled seat. Bishop John Arnold, Auxillary Bishop of the dark and dirty Diocese of Westminster has been elevated by the pope and just in time for Nichols of Westminster […]
Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy
It must have been in 1964, having been intrigued by Brendan Behan’s antics on television, that I first read Borstal Boy, which led me on to reading everything he wrote and other things that were written by others when he was incapable of writing towards the end of his short […]
I Am A Non-violent Terrorist, David Says So.
Following David Cameron’s speech on terrorism at the United Nations recently, where he spoke at length on the war on terrorism world-wide and what all countries needed to do, He stated that non-violent extremist were as bad as the violent terrorists we see on our screens every day of the […]
Here’s A Question.
Far be it from me to brag about the problem, but it was I who dragged the dark sordid story of sexual abuse of young Catholic boys at St Bede’s College in Manchester between 1950 and 1966 out of the locked cupboard that is known as the Salford Diocese and […]