24 h. ago Convicted paedophile blames Starmer for 'daming teachers' accused of historic abuse

Brian Dailey was convicted of 16-counts of sexual abuse at the High Court in Glasgow.

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30 h. ago Paedophile blames Starmer for ‘damning’ teachers accused of historic abuse

Brian Dailey, 78, was convicted in 2017 and also 2022 of a total of 21 charges, of which 16 were sex offences, spanning 1969 to 1984.

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31 h. ago CIA historian Tim Weiner: ‘Trump has put national security in the hands of crackpots and fools’

The longtime chronicler of the spy agency on his Legacy of Ashes follow-up and what keeps him up at nightIt may seem perverse to pity the Central Intelligence Agency. The powerful spy organization’s history is rich with failures and abuses – from the Cuban missile crisis to the post-9/11 torture program to its role in the overthrow of a long string of democratically elected leaders. But among the many consequences of Donald Trump’s open hostility toward America’s intelligence community is that no less a CIA critic than Tim Weiner now sounds like a defender.To understand why, Weiner – author of the unsparing history of the agency, the 2007 bestseller Legacy of Ashes – suggested a thought experiment in a recent interview: imagine spending years as an intelligence officer, working diligently to subvert the Kremlin, only to watch the US stand with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as it did in February when it voted against a UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine. In that moment,...

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8 d. ago Fifteen men arrested across Manchester and Yorkshire as part of investigations into historic child abuse

The offences date back to 2000 and relate to two female victims

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2 w. ago Paedophile who raped children in Scots care homes caged for 15 years

Edward Stanton, 73, who has a prolific history of committing child sex abuse crimes, has been caged again.

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2 w. ago Men arrested on suspicion of rape by police investigating historic child sex abuse

Both arrests were made in Oldham

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4 w. ago ‘We were powerless’: inside the devastating Ohio State sexual abuse scandal

A college physician allegedly abused at least 177 male students during his tenure, a story revived in a harrowing new film that highlights how he got away with itOhio State sets the standard in intercollegiate sports. The university’s athletics department, a statewide source of pride that includes 36 varsity sports teams (from pistol shooting to college football’s reigning national champion), rivals some Fortune 500 companies for scale. In 2024 Ohio State spent $292.8m on its sports programs, more than every school in the well-heeled Big Ten conference and every college in the country besides the University of Texas, while hoovering in more than $1.2bn in revenue over the past seven years. The Ohio State brand – flaunted through scarlet red block-O logos and buckeye tree iconography – is so synonymous with flush times inside and outside the lines that even now few really associate the university with one of most shocking and widespread sex abuse scandals in US history.Eva Orner – th...

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