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[buddleia]

A friend of mine has been deeply involved in the independent panel report into the Hillsborough disaster. As it had little legal strength and had to rely on goodwill, a great deal of security was observed and my friend has just come out of a two year long, and exhausting, project that had to be kept super quiet from family and friends. That was

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[gonzo21]

And yet this story got bumped off the front pages and the lead items on the news by the never-ending Savile thing. To me, as awful as the allegations are regarding Savile, but this Hillsborough thing is huge, it's entire government systems colluding to systematically deny fuckups in which a lot of people died.

And there's no telling yet how high up in the Tory party the coverup went.

[buddleia]

Tbh, this wasn't just the government; it was institutions closing ranks to protect their own (I almost don't blame them. Who wants the direct or emotional weight of that?) but drawing on a country-wide and class driven hatred of football fans to paint them as responsible for this was vile.

And Jimmy Saville deserves the front page. May his grotesquerie serve as a reminder that it's easy to say "Surely someone should have done something"

[gonzo21]

I still live in hope that there might be sufficient evidence that the families and survivors might be able to sue the Sun for damages.