Tommy Robinson

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Pat Phelan, possibly the nastiest piece of work on any UK soap ever, got a knife through the heart last night, and although you never can tell in these comedies, he was carried out in a body bag so appeared to be deceased. I see quite a lot of the soaps because I do my music magazine editorship using a laptop usually located in our main TV watching room, and Mrs F is a fan

The point I was trying, and it appears failing, to make is that being unaware of the big face off in Coro was your choice, being unaware of Robinson's arrest and sentencing was decreed by someone or something who was determined you WOULDN'T find out. I spent a bit of time rooting round the detail of this after my pal alerted me to it, and something smells about this other than (just) Robinson.

On the subject of TV reflections of real life, Andy...have you watched ‘A Very English Scandal’ about the Jeremy Thorpe affair?
I have, and thoroughly enjoyed it...looking forward to the final part tonight.
Since it started though the whole issue has taken on a more sinister twist, in so much as one of the major ‘players’, who both the CPS and the police declared to be long since dead, appears very much alive.
The whole programme has had an almost comedic element to it, but suddenly we see yet more evidence of how the establishment protects itself. Thorpe was a major political figure about forty to fifty years ago who, it very much seems, got away with arranging attempted murder. Cyril Smith was another politician of the same era, as was Ted Heath. The allegations about them have never been satisfactorily investigated and there remain the matter of Thatcher’s ‘friendship’ with Jimmy Saville not to mention questions about the behaviour of many top Tories in Thatcher’s government at the time of the Brighton bombing.
I don’t raise this in an anti-Tory way, the personnel involved is purely coincidental and the same applies to Greville Janner, but I suspect tonight’s Tom Mangold investigation (BBC4 10.00) will raise many questions about the lengths the establishment will go to in order to protect itself.