Rubbish Reporting

Well, I'm pretty much exhausted after a weekend of painting, (at this rate my front room might be completely redecorated by Christmas), drinking beer, watching the World Cup and having to endure the fucking cacophonous row that is 'Crapchester Shite', (the so-called 'music' event which is held in the park across the road from me every year and blights my weekend with its non-stop noise).  But, despite my exhaustion, (not helped by stumbling through work today in the stifling heat), something is still bothering me.  No, not the failure of the local council's contractors to empty my recycling bin for the second week running - it is now full to the brim and if they can't be bothered to do what the council is undoubtedly paying them through the nose to do, I'll simply stop recycling and stick everything in with the usual refuse.  See how they like that, eh?  This borough already has one of the UK's worst recycling rates, so you'd think they'd make the bloody effort, wouldn't you?  But apparently not.  Mind you, it isn't just the recycling; their contractors have had difficulties in actually collecting the rubbish on this street for years, frequently by-passing it or simply ignoring the bins which have been put out for them.

However, as I said, that isn't what has been bothering me.  What has been bothering me is the fact that, over the weekend, an investigative website, (a legitimate journalism site, not one of those crank conspiracy sites), broke a story concerning the currently hot topic of the alleged Westminster paedophile ring.  According to the story, at least two victims of the ring had separately claimed that, during the 1980s, they had been taken to block of flats in London used to accommodate MPs, there to be abused by several senior Tory MPs, including a former cabinet minister.  Now, in view of last week's furore about the documents making similar allegations given by the late Geoffrey Dickens MP to the then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, and which were then  allegedly supressed by the Home Office, one might think that such a story would be dynamite.  Yet only one mainstream media outlet - the Sunday People - seems to have run with the story.  I've waited in vain for the BBC or one of the broadsheets to at least mention the story, but not a peep.  It's as if it never happened.  In the wake of the similar non-reporting of the recent anti-Austerity rally in London by the BBC and other mainstream media, I'm beginning to wonder just how much else is currently being supressed.  Is it any wonder that the government is so keen to 'regulate' the internet and has GCHQ trying to invade every online human interaction, as it seems to be the only place you can find out what's actually going on?