Monday, December 14, 2015

I'm every detainee, it's down to me

It's silly but whenever Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be held in Guantanamo Bay and recently released, is mentioned in the news, I just can't get past my mind Chaka Khan's I'm Every Woman.  Maybe it's appropriate as Aamer is Saudi in origin and on the weekend, Saudi women were elected for the first time to councils in the Kingdom.  Still, Aamer's claims of assault and brutality against him in the presence of British personnel is serious and the Foreign Office's standard disclaimer that British officers were active or present seems so much like a shallow lie.  Although he has said he won't do it, he has every right to sue.
In other news, the clearing of 'Dr' Neil Fox, the radio DJ, of sexual harassment charges has a series of implications, notably linked to the pursuance of celebrities and the credibility of evidence.  For me, I can still enjoy lines he said (quite ignorantly) on Brass Eye - "there's no scientific evidence for it, but it's a fact."  Also, his appearance as a 'judge' on the 2008 spoof, featuring Peter Kay, Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice is comedy gold.

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