When Should a Pornographer Head a Childrens' Charity?

Anyone who regularly reads Private Eye will know of Richard Desmond. He is the publisher of many pornographic titles, who moved into pay-for porn TV, and has acquired ownership of the Star and Express newspapers, and more recently won ownership of Channel 5.

Now you might think that the government would baulk at the idea of a man who is a known pornographer owning one of Britain's "terrestrial" channels, but it seems that Mr. Desmond's choice output in hardcore pornography (once toe-curlingly read out to a cringing Tony Blair) being given the green-light to yet more media ownership is par for the course.

The first link below (Express Watch - coming from a leftist perspective) shows what a cunning-linguist Richard Desmond is, for his stable of papers will often take an anti-immigrant line, and quasi-anti-homosexual line (in that anti-pc, hand-wringing not-all-poofs-are-bad-really way we all know and hate) whilst his stable of porn TV channels will often have multi-racial porn and gay porn (according to Express Watch one channel is called Gay TV).



What his papers seemingly condemn on the one hand in a right-wing populist style, Richard Desmond's pay-to-watch porn channels promote on the other hand (if you'll pardon the masturbatory pun!).

What a strange character for the government to allow to take over a TV Channel, I mean a 'mainstream' channel, not his porno channels. Interestingly (or not) Wikipedia lists his porno channels as "Television X, Red Hot TV and others." (and others - why so shy?).

It is a bizarre publishing figure for a government to allow to run the country's fourth terrestrial TV stable (after the BBC, ITV and Channel 4) is it not?

Mr. Desmond lives in Golders Green (clue 1), does much charitable work for childrens' charity Norwood which raises big money for a certain 'section of the community' (clue 2), and he comes from that same 'section of the community' that has had a hugely disproportionate role in the porn industry (clue 3) both in the UK and worldwide.

Indeed, one must wonder why the publisher of such porno magazines as "Asian Babes, Horny Housewives, The Very Best of Mega Boobs, and S###k Loving Sluts" (he sold them in 2004) and the proprietor of many TV pornographic channels is allowed the presidency of Norwood, a charity that helps Jewish children.

Has the Charity Commission fallen asleep? Has the government?

Are we to believe that the ability to publish pornography in printed and televisual forms and thus raise millions, some of which can then be thrown at political parties or charities, is enough to "buy" placements in the media or charitable worlds?

Food for thought.

Link:
Richard Desmond Loves C##k (for Cash)

New Labour: Same Old Same Old

Have the Labour Party learnt nothing?

Has Gordon Brown learnt nothing of Blair's scandals?

Oh today we had a nice speech, carefully crafted, to show how Brown is "new."

And pig's have wings in abundance. This is yet more spin - as Brown spins that this means the end of spin!

How else can he say he understands the concerns of communities facing change (nice words for people swamped by immigrants) whilst saying in almost the next breath how proud he is of the liberalisation of society, and of his commitment against "racism."

This really was the "all things to all men" speech worthy of Tony Blair himself!

Why is it whenever politicians say they're "listening" you know they won't do anything for us - but only for big business, immigrants, homosexuals and all the other special interest groups that tick the right boxes?

Mr. Blair is leaving office. Behind him he leaves the investigations centred around his fund-raiser "Lord" Levy.

As Mr Brown takes office there is fresh unease over the man he has chosen as his fundraiser, "Sir" Ronald Cohen (pictured here).

The more things (so we're told) change, the more they stay the same.

Today's Sunday Telegraph says the Charity Commission are investigating Cohen's Charity (the Portland Trust) set up "to promote peace and stability between Palestinians and Israelis."

Cohen made his millions in Apax, a private equity firm - aka the rampant buy and sell-off arm of Capitalism which makes obscene profits via asset-stripping companies and throwing workingmen on the dole.

Only this week the cream of the asset-stripping Capitalists were harangued by MPs and asked why, in the boastful words of one of them, they "pay less tax than their cleaners."

Interestingly the other Trustees of the Portland Trust are businessman "Sir" Harry Solomon, the "historian" (and kosher holocaust promoter) "Sir" Martin Gilbert and David Freud an ex-banker.

Spot the Palestinian eh?

Yet more sleaze and yet more Kosher dodgy dealings at the heart of this government. Seems New New Labour is set to be a carbon copy of New Labour.

We shouldn't be surprised, but we should be outraged.

Links

Watchdog to look into Cohen's Charity

Ronald Cohen at Yad Vashem bash

Brown and Cohen at Jewish Schools bash

Cohen at Yad Vashem in Israel

Capitalist Asset-Stripper and Tax Avoider at HM Treasury

Puff-piece on Cohen sponsored by Coutts Bank