Scallywag ex Wiki
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Scallywag magazine was published in London between 1991 and 1995.
The subtitle of issues 1 - 6 was "Camden's only alternative community magazine".
It sought to publish controversial journalism which other satirical and
investigative publications (such as
Private
Eye) would not publish due to fear of litigation. It was founded and edited
by Simon
Regan. A previous version was published in Dorset, and the first issue of
the 'Camden Scallywag' says that the Dorset version was then "on edition 37".In 1993 it was sued under
English libel law by the then
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
John Major,
over reporting rumours that he had had an affair with a
Downing Street caterer, even though it had said the allegations were false.
By also suing the magazine's distributors, he received a settlement from them,
and they passed the costs onto the magazine. Scallywag's financial position
never recovered.[1]
Stories from Scallywag magazine were used by the controversial writer
David Icke
in his book 'The Biggest secret'.
At least 30 issues were published. Nos 1 - 3 were undated, no. 4 is dated
February 1992, nos 27 - 30 are dated 1995.
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Scallywag fingered
Lord McAlpine and
Heseltine.
La Gazelle d'Or at Taroudant was described as a splendid destination for the
discerning Paedophile.
Simon
Regan ex Wiki
QUOTE
Simon Regan (7 August 1942 – 8 August 2000) was a
British journalist best known for founding
Scallywag magazine, which deliberately took risks with
libellous articles about public figures. He also worked on the
News of the World and late in his career focused on criminal
convictions he believed were miscarriages of
justice.
Regan was born in
Hampstead,
London
and brought up in a mansion owned by his grandmother where many of the
rooms were rented out. His parents were supporters of the
Communist Party of Great Britain and were visited by many East
European intellectuals. Regan attended
Haverstock Comprehensive School, and wrote poetry for
John O'London's Magazine while in his teens.
Having moved to
Weymouth,
Dorset,
Regan became a journalist on a local paper before moving to London as a
freelance. In March 1967 the Press Council criticised him for a piece he
contributed to
The Sun about a woman who had become pregnant after a
sterilization operation.
He landed a staff job on the News of the World in 1967 where
he specialised in writing stories exposing
cannabis-taking,
Trotskyite student conspiracies, a world he was close to as a user
of cannabis himself. Despite often attacking senior staff at the News
of the World, Regan was popular with readers and wrote his pieces in
line with the newspaper's view. He also worked on police corruption
stories.
After leaving the News of the World, Regan wrote biographies.
He started with his former proprietor
Rupert Murdoch, and then followed with two royal biographies. A
reviewer found the biography of Murdoch "disgracefully ill-written and
ill-constructed".[2]
Regan's biography of
Prince Charles, "Charles, The Clown Prince", was based on
letters and paintings by the young Prince which had been stolen from
Buckingham Palace, and the Royal solicitors wrote to the publishers
to remind them of the law of
Copyright.[3]
His second royal biography, "Margaret - A Love Story", claimed to
reveal details of
Princess Margaret's love life.[4]
Meanwhile Regan became a freelance editor and public relations
adviser. He founded a journal which he called "Butterfly News", chiefly
to attack personal targets including
Coca-Cola, the
National Farmers Union and the main figures in
butterfly collecting.
In April 1981, Regan obtained transcripts of telephone calls made by
Prince Charles in
Australia to
Lady Diana Spencer, then his fiancée. In addition to revealing their
intimate conversation, Charles could be heard making disparaging remarks
about
Malcolm Fraser, then
Prime Minister of Australia, and about some aspects of Australian
culture.[5]
They were bought by
Die Aktuelle, a German magazine; the Prince and Lady Diana
obtained an injunction preventing Regan from disclosing or publishing
the contents of the transcripts,[6]
but Die Aktuelle was not affected and published the transcripts
on 8 May despite a German court having also injuncted them against
publication.[7]
The Prince's lawyer later insisted that the tapes were forgeries,
while Regan insisted they were genuine.
In 1989, Regan founded Scallywag magazine in South Dorset when
the lure of journalism drew him back from his retirement in Butterfly
World on Lodmoor Park, Weymouth. Initially Scallywag was a local
magazine seeking to expose local issues. A recurrent theme was illegal
tipping on the nearby Lodmoor refuse deport where he accused council
staff of taking bribes to allow dangerous chemicals to be tipped. He
also claimed widespread police corruption associated with Freemasonry in
Dorset and claimed to have been beaten up by two off-duty policemen in
College Lane, Weymouth. He also 'named and shamed' people he perceived
as being paedophiles. However, like so many of his campaigns, no
substantial legally acceptable evidence was ever produced.
Regan was inspired by the early years of
Private Eye, but he felt that the
Eye had become too
cautious of libel actions and determined not to fall into the same trap.
At one difficult time he sold Scallywag to a friend, who had no
assets, which allowed Regan greater freedom to pursue stories. Scallywag started to attract a loyal readership, although the major
newspaper distributors refused to handle it (a situation Regan regarded
as tantamount to
censorship). Nevertheless in 1991
Scallywag moved to London
and became a national publication.
Scallywag became a news story in itself in 1993 when it stoked
a rumour that
John Major, then
Prime Minister, was having an affair with
Clare Latimer, who was a freelance cook who helped with state
dinners at
10 Downing Street. A story in the
New Statesman showed how the rumours had been covertly mentioned
in mainstream papers. When Major heard of the New Statesman story
he sued both them and Scallywag for libel; he also sued the
distributors and printers of both papers, which contributed to nearly
driving the New Statesman out of business.
Clare Latimer later claimed that "Mr. Major used her as a "decoy" to
prevent what would have been the more politically damaging exposure of
the affair he had with Mrs. Currie from 1984 to 1988."[8]
New Statesman editor Peter Wilby said that, had Major's previous
adultery been known at the time of the libel case, the outcome may have
been different.
Scallywag limped on but a 1994 story about Conservative
politician
Julian Lewis led to another series of libel actions which the
magazine lost comprehensively. Scallywag disappeared from print
and moved to a site on the
World Wide Web instead. Lewis followed and won damages from
Scallywag's internet service provider, closing the site down.
Regan responded by accusing Lewis of lying, and decided to attempt to
sabotage Lewis' campaign in
New Forest East where he was Conservative candidate for the
1997 election. Unfortunately for Regan, Lewis was aware of an
obscure section of electoral law and when he obtained a taped confession
from Regan that his aim was to cost Lewis votes, Lewis was able to get
Regan convicted of spreading false statements about an election
candidate.
In his final years Regan devoted himself to propagating his belief
that Diana, Princess of Wales had been killed in a conspiracy. He also
set up a website called "Scandals in justice" which sought to expose
wrongful convictions, and wrote occasionally for The Guardian. In
2000 he was convicted of "disseminating malicious falsehoods."[4]
Regan was married and divorced twice; he had six daughters, one of whom
(Charlotte) stood as an
Independent in the
2001 general election in
Regent's Park and Kensington North. He died after a short illness.
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There is no mention of his story about Prince Andrew.
JUSTICE
DENIED - ex
http://google-law.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/scallywag-magazine-how-torys-cover-up.html
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People persecuted for
political reasons must be defended.
Monday, 29 October 2012SCALLYWAG MAGAZINE HOW
THE TORY'S COVERED UP
THE PAEDOPHILE RING
JIMMY SAVILE PROCURED
FOR
The letter written
below is penned by
Simon Regan Editor
of Scallywag
Magazine who's [
sic ]
half Brother
Angus James
Wilson, co-founder
of Scallywag,
died in Cyprus in
1994 whilst the
magazine was
investigating the
elite paedophile
ring operating in
North Wales
children's homes and
beyond.
In his letter Simon
documents
Scallywag's
investigation into
the North Wales
Child Abuse
scandal and the
tragic cover-up by
the Courts and the
Establishment.
Whilst the Police
stole the
affidavits the
abused children had
made, naming their
high profile
abusers, the notes
of the interviews
were kept by
investigator Andrea
Davison only to be
seized by the Derby
and North Wales
Police in January
2010.
http://google-law.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/andrea-davison-jimmy-savile-serco-and.html
Now that this
paedophile ring,
which Jimmy Savile
procured for, is
being exposed its
time that the Police
returned the
Affidavits and the
notes of these
interviews. The
names given by these
abused children,
some of whom died
tragically, should
be investigated anew
but who can be
trusted to do the
investigation?
The daily mail
recently wrote
this article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224167/Former-Minister-says-Thatcher-aide-paedophile-preyed-boys-home--Hague-known.html
which opened up the
whole North Wales
Child abuse scandal
up again. William
Hague and other
Members of the last
Tory Government
covered up the fact
the Peter Morrison
MP Thatcher's close
friend and aid was
named by children in
the North Wales
children's homes as
being a child
abuser linked to an
elite paedophile
ring.
Simon Regan with
party friends in
happier times
Photo by: Idris
Martin
Abuse
The Waterhouse
Report
By Simon Regan
20 February 2000
The fact that the
Waterhouse report
went as far as it
did is highly
commendable, and
obviously long
overdue. But the
trouble with any
investigation which
tries to break
through a 'cult of
silence' is the
lingering doubts
that it will ever
get down to the
whole full truth of
the matter.
Waterhouse is
probably merely the
tip of the iceberg.
The report suggests
there is 'no
evidence' that
Freemasonry had
anything to do with
the scandal. Yet
there were two
inadequate and
inconclusive police
inquiries, including
one into a senior
officer, by a force
in North Wales
riddled with
freemasons.
There was a
consistent lack of
initiative on the
part of the local
Clwyd CC in the face
of overwhelming
evidence of
consistent child
abuse at Bryn Estyn,
ostensibly because
the council insurers
advised against any
action. This in
itself insults
democracy in a way
that borders on the
criminal. By a
policy of
non-action, both the
police and the
council became
embroiled in a
blatant cover-up.
Anyone who has even
vaguely become
acquainted with
paedophilia knows
very well that they
will go to the ends
of the earth to keep
their activities
absolutely secret.
They are
professional experts
in covering their
tracks.
In the early
nineties, in the now
defunct Scallywag
magazine, which I
founded, we
interviewed in some
depth twelve former
inmates at Bryn
Estyn who had all
been involved in the
Wrexham paedophile
ring, which the
tribunal
acknowledges
existed. Most of
these interviews
were extremely
harrowing and
disturbing, but were
gently and
sensitively
conducted over pub
lunches where the
victim could relax.
We subsequently
persuaded ten of
them to make sworn
affidavits which we
proposed to use as
back up to half a
dozen paedophile
stories we later
published.
Two of these young
men, who had been
14-years-old at the
time, swore they had
been not only
introduced to the
paedophile ring
operating in the
Crest Hotel in
Wrexham but had
later been escorted
on three or four
occasions to an
address in Pimlico
where they were
further abused.
We took them
separately to
Pimlico and asked
them to point out
the building where
this had taken
place. They were
both positive in
their
identification. It
turned out to be the
private flat of a
well known, and
since highly
discredited lobbyist
who later went into
obscurity in some
disgrace because of
his involvement with
Mohammed al-Fayed
and the 'cash for
questions' scandal.
At the time we ran a
story entitled 'Boys
for Questions' and
named several
prominent members of
the then Thatcher
government. These
allegations went to
the very top of the
Tory party, yet
there was a curious
and almost ominous
lack of writs.
The lobbyist was a
notorious 'queen'
who specialised in
gay parties with a
'political mix' in
the Pimlico area -
most convenient to
the Commons - and
which included
selected flats in
Dolphin Square. The
two young men were
able to give us very
graphic descriptions
of just what went
on, including acts
of buggery, and
alleged that they
were only two of
many from children's
homes other than
North Wales.
There was, to my
certain knowledge,
at least one
resignation from the
Conservative office
in Smith Square once
we had published our
evidence and named
names.
Subsequently, over a
rent dispute which
is still a matter of
litigation, Dr.
Julian Lewis, now
Conservative MP for
New Forest (East)
but then deputy head
of research at
Conservative Central
Office in Smith
Square, managed to
purchase the
contents of our
offices, which
included all our
files. It had been
alleged that we owed
rent, which we
disputed, but under
a court order the
landlords were able
to change the locks
and seize our assets
which included all
our files, including
those we had made on
paedophiles. It was
apparently quite
legal, but it was
most certainly a
dirty trick.
All of a sudden very
private information,
some of it even
privileged between
ourselves and our
lawyer during the
John Major libel
action, was being
published in
selected,
pro-Conservative
sections of the
media.
Subsequently, during
a court case
initiated by Lewis,
I was able in my
defence to seek
discovery of
documents and asked
to see the seized
files. The
paedophile papers
were missing. This
is a very great
shame, because Sir
Ronald Waterhouse
certainly should
have been aware of
them.
I believe that the
secrecy the
Establishment wraps
around itself easily
equals that of the
paedophiles. They
really do look after
each other and quite
professionally cover
their tracks.
The real trouble
about exposing
paedophiles is that
former victims of
child abuse make
lousy witnesses. By
the very nature of
the abuse, when they
are rudely shoved
out into the wide
world (one of the
witnesses, Stephen
Messham, for
example, was
released on his
sixteenth birthday
on Christmas day
after two years of
abuse, and had to
sleep rough on the
streets for four and
a half months), they
are often deeply
psychologically
disturbed.
Some of the extreme
cases commit
suicide, many more
were sexually
disorientated in the
worst possible way.
Some became gay
prostitutes, others
drug addicts, and in
nearly every case,
at some stage, they
needed lengthy
counselling.
Marriages quickly
disintegrated in
psychological
turmoil and a lot of
former victims had
real difficulties
raising their own
children. There are
very few victims of
child abuse who come
out of it without
deep scars.
It was all very well
for us to take
statements from
former victims in
the cosy atmosphere
of a pub lunch, but
put them up against
an agile and eminent
QC whose sole task
is to discredit
them, and they
quickly crumble,
even break down in
tears. Many former
victims now have
criminal records of
some kind, owing
almost exclusively
to the abuse itself,
and the barrister
will brutally
exploit this as
evidence that the
witness is
unreliable and
tainted. Faced with
the choice of a
clearly neurotic
young man who
quickly falls down
in the witness box,
and a smooth,
experienced, erudite
and often highly
respected culprit,
juries tend to give
the accused the
benefit of the
doubt.
I watched it in the
now famous Court 13
at the High Court
during the libel
action between
former Supt. Gordon
Anglesey and Private
Eye (and others)
when, despite the
fact that under
cross examination,
Anglesey had to
admit that his
evidence did not
correspond with his
own notebooks, the
'other side'
subsequently tore
the five main
prosecution
witnesses to pieces
in a monumental act
of judicial
harassment. Like the
whole story of child
abuse in North Wales
and elsewhere, it
broke my heart.
Simon Regan
(deceased) was
editor of Scallywag
Magazine
Please get your facts straight. As Angus's partner and colleague - I was with him in Cyprus. At that time we were not "investigating the elite paedophile ring operating in North Wales children's homes and beyond". The trip to Cyrus was many years later than the reports in Scallywag and totally unrelated.
ReplyFurthermore - his death was not 'mysterious' - his death was a case of manslaughter - in which another member of staff crashed our vehicle in a violent rage. He has never been brought to justice.
Ali thank you for your comment. Perhaps you can comment on the articles in Scallywag and Spiked about the North Wales Child abuse scandal I am sure people would love to hear your first hand experience of the investigation as you say you were the partner of Angus.
ReplyWe have copies of your Magazine naming Lord McAlpine and would be fascinated to know what evidence you had against Lord McAlpine I am assuming it was very good because McAlpine did not sue your magazine at that time. You were the first to name McAlpine and I am sure readers would appreciate your help with this.
We are seeking the truth and your input would be invaluable. Please give me your contact details so we put the facts straight as you remember them?
Please provide the full facts about Mc Alpine and Angus and I will publish your addition.
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This Ali comment, above, is new to google. No photos, no other comments, no posts totally new blogger account. Beware the cover-up squad are around. They are trying to put the lid on the child abuse and they have lots of money and lots of agents.
ReplyAli has not replied to us so the jury is out. But I have now checked the back copies of Scallywag and Spiked Magazine. The last issue when the North wales Child Abuse Scandal was written about was issue 7 and that was in 1995. As Angus sadly died in 1994 RIP the magazine he was editor off was deeply involved in the long term exposure of the Peadophile ring and the exposure of paedophiles in North Wales when he died.
ReplyDetails of the St John ambulance paedophile protection network are here:
www.stjohnnz.com