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I listened to the Radio 4 obituaries programme 'Last Word' yesterday and they paid tribute to Julia Grant, the trans-activist who was the subject of a series of BBC TV documentaries which charted her gender reassignment during the 1980s and 90s. I only watched one of the documentaries, screened in the 1990s. It was one which contained footage of Julia – who began life as George Roberts – during her consultation some years previously with a Top Doc at Charing Cross, a psychiatrist who was a gender identity specialist. Julia was obliged to see this man before the gender reassignment surgery that she wanted could go ahead. The Top Doc concerned refused to allow his face to be shown on camera or to be identified.
The Top Doc treated Julia dreadfully, absolutely dreadfully. So much so that the crap faced by transgender people gained a great deal of publicity. At one point he snapped at Julia 'you have stepped out of line and I don't like people who step out of line'. He subsequently turned down her request for gender realignment surgery. During the consultation Julia was reduced to jelly. She was not highly educated and had no education at all in medicine so was not able to identify the many ways in which the Top Doc breached all good practice and thus she did not say 'what the fuck do you think that you are doing?'
This was the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic, supposedly the global leader in that field. We take referrals from across the world! Yes and as far as NHS UK patients went, it was that shitbag whom they had to encounter if they wanted gender reassignment surgery. No other option. You have this bastard or you don't even get considered for treatment.
The nation however missed something. This Doc was not alone in being a psychiatrist who conducted himself in that manner. Many of them did, including Dr Tony Roberts at the Hergest Unit, until Roberts finally retired not so long ago. Exactly the same bedside manner: rude, insulting, with bizarre notions of what constitutes 'gender appropriate' behaviour, deliberately intimidating. The geographical area covered by Tony Roberts had the second highest suicide rate among women in England and Wales, except for Camden. When I complained to the GMC about Roberts in 2002, the GMC did not investigate my complaint. They maintained that Tony Roberts had not done anything inappropriate. Although he had ordered my key worker off of my case – my key worker whom I liked – appointed himself my doctor against my wishes, refused to treat me and then ordered every other Top Doc not to treat me on the grounds that I was 'his patient'. One night a I rang the GP on-call, who recorded on my file 'suicidal ++++' and contacted Roberts. Roberts faxed two words back – 'DO NOTHING'.
I was not alone in having these experiences with Roberts. As another patient observed, he was 'another dangerous madman'. Tony Roberts graduated from Manchester University in 1984. He trained with the abusive nutters there who included Dafydd's old boss Dr Bob Hobson, who ran a sex abuse ring at the Maudsley and then in 1974 relocated to Manchester where he expanded on the ring there (see post 'The Mentor'). Ian Brockington, Tony Francis's former boss, also worked at Manchester University, until he joined Dafydd and Francis's mate Professor Robert Bluglass at the University of Birmingham (see post 'Ian Brockington's Mischief'). After learning at their knees, Roberts headed for a job at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh where he joined Dafydd and then Roberts was appointed Clinical Director of the Hergest Unit…
Years later, my lawyers discovered a document in the possession of the GMC purporting to be my letter of complaint about Tony Roberts. It was a forgery. See post 'The General Medical Council And Yet Another Forged Document'.
Although the Top Doc who treated Julia Grant so appallingly refused to allow himself to be identified at the time of the TV programme, he was later revealed to be John Randell. John Randell was one fun guy, but no-one dared mention anything at the time other than his sadism towards Julia Grant. By the time that Randell's earlier interview with Julia was broadcast on the programme that I watched, Randell had been dead since 1982. Although the old bastard had been 6 ft under for years, no-one dared say anything ruder about him in public other than that he was old fashioned, showed bigotry towards transgender people and had some rather odd views about women.
John Randell was born in Penarth, Cardiff in 1918. He qualified as a Top Doctor at the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1941. From 1942-46 he was a Surgeon Lieutenant in the RNVR. Randall knew Gwynne the lobotomist , Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain who facilitated the paedophile/trafficking ring at St George's Hospital Medical School which was linked to Dafydd's gang and Randell also knew about the Naughtiness In High Places re Lord Louis Mountbatten and the gay spies in the Admiralty, as discussed in my post 'The Defence Of The Realm'.
After serving in the RNVR, Randell worked at Guy's, St George's and Tommy's Hospitals. All of which were already facilitating the organised abuse upon which Dafydd et al expanded into a pan-European ring in the 1970s. In 1950 Randell was appointed Physician for Psychological Medicine at Charing Cross. There he worked with Lennox Broster who had been treating intersex people since the 1930s, but not transsexuals as such.
Lennox Ross Broster (1889 – 12 April 1965) was a South African-born surgeon who spent most of his career at Charing Cross. Broster was educated in Grahamstown, first at St Andrew's College, then at Rhodes University College. Broster received a Rhodes Scholarship and began studying medicine at Trinity College, Oxford. He continued his medical training at Guy's Hospital, qualifying as a Top Doc from there. Broster served with the RAMC during WW I. After WW I, Broster specialised in the treatment of endocrine disease. In the 1930s and 1940s Broster was among the first surgeons to operate routinely on intersex patients, in work that received frequent coverage in the British press and helped to establish Charing Cross Hospital as a centre for intersex and transgender medicine. His patients during this period included the Olympic athlete Mark Weston.
Broster held junior surgical positions at a number of hospitals, including at the Radcliffe Infirmary and at Guy's Hospital. He also worked at the Queen's Hospital for Children. During this period Broster became associated with Charing Cross, where he would remain for the rest of his career. A history of Charing Cross published in 1967 stated that Broster had been "one of the outstanding surgeons" there. Although employed as a general surgeon, Broster took a special interest in endocrinology. Simultaneously with his work at Charing Cross, Broster also served as a consultant to several other hospitals – the Bute Hospital in Luton, Chesham Cottage Hospital, Dunstable Hospital, Beckenham Hospital – and to the Church Army.
In the 1930s and 1940s Broster provided surgical and hormonal treatment to intersex patients, in collaboration with the psychiatrist Clifford Allen. This attracted considerable press attention to Broster and Charing Cross during the 1930s. A 1938 story in the News of the Screws described Broster as "the famous surgeon, who has brought new hope and happiness into the baffled lives of many men and women who were desirous of changing their sex". Although journalists often described the treatment as sex changing, the patients they wrote about would more accurately be described as intersex and there is no evidence that Broster operated on transsexuals.
Broster gave lecture tours of the United States and Canada in 1936 and 1937. Broster gave lectures to the American Surgical Association in 1941 and he became an honorary fellow of the Association in 1942. In 1948 the South African Medical Association invited Broster to lecture in South Africa and in 1950 he was a visiting Professor at Cairo University. Broster was Chairman of the Court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also acted as an examiner for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Leeds.
Broster represented the South African branches of the BMA on the BMA's Council, 1938-45/46, when the independent Medical Association of South Africa was established. Broster was also involved with the BMA's Section of Surgery, serving as an honorary Secretary in 1929 and a Vice-President in 1950.
In 1950 Broster became Chairman of the Commonwealth Medical Advisory Bureau's Committee of Management. In 1952 he became Chair of a Committee, set up jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine's Section of Endocrinology and the Society for Endocrinology, which had the task of considering how British research in endocrinology could be encouraged. He was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958.
Broster was a strong supporter of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Broster was an enthusiastic Rugby player as a student and a Top Doctor and served as President of the United Hospitals Rugby Football Club. Like all the best Top Doctors, Broster played golf and retained an interest in sports contests between Oxford and other universities.
Broster suffered a stroke after retiring, when about to sit down at Lord's Cricket Ground to watch a match. He made a partial recovery but later died on 12 April 1965.
Working as a high profile general surgeon in Oxford at the time that he did will have meant that Broster knew and almost certainly taught Sir Charles Evans, the surgeon who served as Principal of UNCW, 1958 -84. Sir Charles trained at Oxford and spent his very early career in surgery there. See previous posts.
Lennox Broster and his wife Edith had three daughters. Their eldest daughter Cynthia also became a physician and finished her career as Principal Medical Officer for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority. So Cynthia knew about the organised abuse of kids in care in Oxfordshire with which social work manager Barbara Kahan and her child psych husband Dr Vladimir Kahan colluded. Babs was appointed a children's social work adviser to Keith Joseph when he was Heath's Secretary of State at the DHSS and Babs remained advising Gov'ts for years. See post eg. 'Always On The Side Of The Children'. Oxford University's Dept of Psychiatry has also been complicit with the abuse of kids and vulnerable adults, as well as being party to cancer research fraud funded by the Cancer Research Campaign. See previous posts…
Cynthia married the neurologist Charles Phillips in 1942. When Charles was called up for military service in the same year, Lennox provided a recommendation that led to Charles's appointment to the RAMC.
Charles Phillips died in September 1994 and as ever the Royal College of Physicians 'Lives of the Fellows' online provided an obituary:
Charles Garrett Phillips b.13 October 1916 d.9 September 1994
BA Oxon(1938) BSc(1939) BM BCh(1942) MRCP(1944) DM(1951) FRCP(1962) FRS(1963) Hon DSc Monash (1971)
As a neurologist who studied at Oxford and then soon after returned to work there, Phillips too will have known Sir Charles Evans. Phillips was only two years older than Evans…
Charles Garrett Phillips had a major impact on experimental and clinical neurology, recording from pyramidal neurons in the cortex and contributing to our understanding of central motor control. In his monographs and in many of his papers Phillips successfully demonstrated the relevance of animal data, intelligently adduced, for the management of motor disorders in man.
This sounds rather as though Charles worked in the area of primates in cages with things stuck into their heads.
Phillips' formidable analytical intelligence was evident at an early stage, and perhaps best demonstrated in his Ferrier lecture and in two monographs. In his 1968 Royal Society Ferrier lecture Phillips explained how the brain was involved in the servo control of the muscles of the hand in primates.
I thought as much.
Secondly, with his main collaborator in the 1960s, Bob Porter, Phillips wrote a book entitled 'Cortico spinal neurones: their role in movement '(London, Academic Press). Published in 1977, the monograph is a seamless synthesis of electrophysiological and micro anatomical studies in which Phillips and Porter refer frequently to the work of their contemporaries as well as historical pioneers. Phillips' second monograph on 'Movements of the hand' (Liverpool University Press, 1985), based on his 1982 Sherrington lecture, was the acme of his scientific thought and writings. He described in detail the inputs and outputs of the cortical modules which resemble the "integrated circuits in electronics terminology". He particularly emphasized the importance of inputs from the muscle afferents which he had already highlighted in his Ferrier lecture, and moved easily from the micro to the macro by explaining the circuitry for programmed motor patterns in the central nervous system.
Charles Garret Phillips was the son of George Ramsey Phillips, anaesthetist to St Mary's Hospital, and Flora Phillips. He was educated at Bradfield College, Magdalen College, Oxford, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
The Bart's which by the 1970s was facilitating organised abuse which could be traced back at least to the presence of Dafydd's pal Lady Juliet Bingley working as a medical almoner at Bart's after she qualified at the LSE in the early 1950s. Lady Juliet's dad Reginald Vick spent most of his career as a surgeon at Bart's. See previous posts.
At Oxford he took a first in animal physiology. After medical qualification he spent three years in the RAMC as a neurologist during which time he took the MRCP. After the war Phillips returned to Oxford, where he became a fellow of Trinity College in 1946, a university lecturer, reader and subsequently appointed to a personal chair in neurophysiology in 1966. He was a secretary of the Physiological Society between 1960 and 1966. In 1975 he was elected to Dr Lee's chair of anatomy at Oxford and retired in 1983.
In spite of the high status he had achieved Charles remained remarkably modest. It was this modesty and a degree of uncertainty, together with the wish not to be constrained by commitments to outside funding bodies, which prevented him from applying for a research grant.
That is the best excuse that I have ever heard for not bothering to apply for research funding.
However, it must also be admitted that the generous 'class grant' which the University bestowed on the physiology laboratory made an application for outside funds unnecessary.
That explains Charles suddenly being overcome by modesty.
The realization that the University's generosity was not uniformly distributed in South Parks Road proved to be one of three culture shocks which stunned Phillips when he took up the chair of anatomy. In contrast to the situation in the physiology laboratory, Phillips found that virtually all research depended upon outside grant funding.
Charles was astounded that the manna from heaven did not continue.
The two other shocks in store for Charles were, first, the conflict between staff which was generated by the five years of uncertainty which followed Geoffrey Harris' untimely death in 1971,
This sounds interesting, I will dig a bit deeper when I have time.
Geoffrey Wingfield Harris was educated first at Dulwich College (1927-1931) and then at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1932-1939). He began clinical training at St. Mary's Hospital, London (1936-1940), worked briefly at Hillingdon County Hospital (1939) and then worked at Cambridge as the Demonstrator in Anatomy (1940-1947), Lecturer in Anatomy (1947-1948) and also Lecturer in Physiology (1947-1952). From 1952-1962 Harris was Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of London and worked in the Laboratory of Experimental Neuroendocrinology at the Maudsley. Dafydd 'trained' at the Maudsley in the early 1960s at the knee of Bob Hobson the trafficker and the wider collection of dishonest incompetents whom were abusing their patients in numerous ways. See posts 'A Galaxy Of Talent' and 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…' In 1953 Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1962 he moved to Hertford College, Oxford, becoming Dr. Lee's Professor of Anatomy, a post he held until his death in 1971.
and, secondly, the fact that the teaching of topographical anatomy had not changed since Phillips was a student. Charles Phillips' appointment allayed the uncertainty of the interregnum that followed the death of Harris and this, together with his gentle but firm democratic leadership, soon restored civilized relations between the staff.
Translate as 'Phillips imposed a regime and ruled over dissenters with a rod of iron'.
But he was not so successful in revising the teaching of topographical anatomy. Charles placed greater emphasis on 'functional' anatomy, including the introduction of transcutaneous stimulation of muscles. But, it was clear to all that Phillips' appointment was an interim measure. He will not be remembered as an anatomist, nor would this have been his wish.
This rather sounds as though Phillips wasn't much good at anatomy and that someone would remind the world of this if ever anyone did remember him as an anatomist.
During his years in human anatomy Phillips also served as editor of 'Brain' and on the Medical Research Council, tasks which he took very seriously.
Even though his anatomy wasn't up to much.
As editor he was proud of the fact that he did not reject papers: rather he urged respect for the work of others even though this sometimes involved major revision of the text or additional experiments to bring the manuscript up to scratch.
Everything accepted, even crap. The journal must have been very short of contributions because journal editors love rejecting papers and stressing that not any old shite gets in this journal.
Charles Phillips was a quick witted and articulate speaker and a gifted conversationalist. To dine with him at a dinner of the Physiological Society was always an immensely rich and pleasurable experience. Indeed Charles endeavoured to make each encounter with colleagues and friends an intellectual occasion using his gentle but penetrating wit and judiciously crafted turn of phrase to set the ambience.
Charles would have put Libby Purves in the shade. Please someone, take Arthur Mullard along to a Physiological Society dinner, secrete a camera about one's person and film the occasion.
Research for Phillips came to an abrupt end when he transferred to human anatomy and retirement, when it came in 1983, was complete.
His services were dispensed with at the earliest opportunity.
This contrasted quite markedly with the lifestyle of some of his close colleagues who were equally or more active in research after retirement. But it was characteristic of Charles to follow life in a precise and orderly sequence. He also confided that experimentation through the night, which recording from cortical neurons demanded, had become too great a strain. However, it seemed to the observer that Charles was in fact quite content in that he had by the age of 58 completed the task he had set out to accomplish.
58 yrs old is very early for a scientist to pack up work. They usually cling on for decades after retirement at 60 or 65, pursuing the research that they enjoy without being bothered by the onerous admin duties imposed on them before retirement.
It is a tragic irony that the end for a man of his powerful and acute intellect was accompanied by severe mental deterioration.
I wonder what happened…
He married Cynthia, herself a physician, in 1942 and they had two daughters.
The psychiatrist who worked with Broster at Charing Cross and established that institution as the world leader in gender identity work, Clifford Allen, made a sharp distinction between intersexuality and transvestism (the term then in use for what is now described as being transgender) which Allen saw as a psychological pathology not requiring surgical intervention. In 1954 Allen wrote: 'the abnormal minds should be treated in order to conform them with the normal body and not vice versa'.
I can't find much about Clifford Allen online, although David Andrew Griffith's article in 'Sexualities', Jan 2018, 'Diagnosing sex: Intersex surgery and 'sex change' in Britain 1930–1955' does discuss Clifford Allen:
Clifford Allen… the consultant psychiatrist at Charing Cross, the Physician in Charge of the Psychiatric Department of the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and the Assistant Physician to the Institute of Medical Psychology at the Tavistock Clinic in Bloomsbury.
Previous posts have discussed the Tavi during those years and some of the Top Docs there who were facilitating abuse, including those with links to north Wales.
Broster and Allen shared the view that atypical biology could lead to atypical psychology; if adrenal glands were thought to masculinize the biological, then they would be expected to influence sex roles, aims and object choice as well. For both Broster and Allen, biological normality was structured into a binary of male and female bodies, and linked to a strict psychological normality, as measured by heterosexuality….
Broster largely saw adults, particularly at the start of his research, although he saw an increasing number of younger and pre-pubescent cases just prior to the interruption of his work caused by the Second World War…
In 1940, Clifford Allen argued that treatments should be strictly divided between psychotherapeutic treatment for individuals who do not have an identifiable atypical anatomy and surgical intervention for individuals who do (Allen, 1940). Broster had the authority to decide or deny physical treatments, or to refer to Allen, who had the authority to decide or deny psychological treatments. In Allen's chapter of The Adrenal Cortex and Intersexuality, he described a case study of a woman who 'wants to be a man' so that she could marry her girlfriend. No physical abnormality was found, so Allen offered psychotherapy to address her (in his view) homosexuality, which she refused (Broster et al., 1938: 106–107). Despite the agency that Broster narrated in his case studies, medicine seems to have remained the authority and conveyer of legitimacy for individuals who did not conform to biological or psychological norms of sex.
Broster's 1944 book, Endocrine Man, sharpens the distinction between individuals with what the medical profession defined as physical or psychological abnormalities. He was very clear that in both cases, treatment of some kind should be pursued, to obtain as close a state to 'normal' as possible:
When their troubles are due to natural causes their plight is pitiable. Society in general is not a respecter of persons, is suspicious, and indeed often hostile to these abnormals. This attitude should be rightly reserved for the decadent imitators and propagandists of these perverted states, who form a festering sore in our midst. (Broster, 1944: 95)
Broster and Allen were Top Docs who were knowingly working with colleagues who were facilitating abuse. As was John Randell.
Clifford Allen certainly came up with an interesting invention outside of the field of gender identity. During the 1960s, the presence of Caribbean Angels in British hospitals was so visible that it inspired Allen to diagnose a medical condition, Heterochromophilia: 'the compulsion in human beings to choose a mate of a different colour'. Allen published a letter in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 1968 which claimed that Heterochromophilia stemmed from a newborn's identification with the first face it laid eyes on when it emerged from the birth canal. 'It seems to be that the condition is rare and not of great importance,' Allen wrote. 'But since we are getting more coloured women nursing white babies these days there is a likelihood of this becoming much more common'.
Those white babies will clap eyes on a big black face and a lifelong taste for mating with negroes will be established.
It would however be preferable to seeing this as soon as one is born, or indeed at any point during one's life:
I was exposed to dangerous levels of Enid Blyton as a child and I had a copy of the later notorious Three Golliwogs book which contained the line about a big black face at the window. When I was a student, I had a friend who hadn't been exposed to Enid Blyton and I told him that the three gollies were called Golly, Nigger and Wog. He suggested that Blyton should have written in a fourth golly, Bleck Bestard. Thatch and Denis had investments in South African businesses at the time of this conversation, but their only reason for refusing to impose sanctions on South Africa was the suffering that sanctions would inflict on the people living in the townships. In South Africa as well as in Gwynedd.
- Dafydd's mate Lord David Ennals, a Minister in the DHSS, 1968-70 and Secretary of State for the DHSS, April 1976-May 1979, was Chairman of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1960-64. His brother John Ennals was Chairman of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1968-76. Lord Ennals' other brother Martin was the DG of Amnesty International. Jeremy Thorpe was an Anti-Apartheid Campaigner. They all colluded with Dafydd's gang, as did many more more at the forefront of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. If any of them had gone public on the crimes of Thatcher's friends Peter Morrison and Jimmy Savile, Thatcher's Gov't – one of the few props which the South African Gov't had during the 1980s – would have been brought down. But none of them did. They and their network instead worked very hard at contributing to the effort to ensure that I and others were never heard re Dafydd. See previous posts for further info about those who were so distressed at what was happening in South Africa that they assisted the gang who supplied kids to Thatch's friends for sex.
At the end of the 1950s John Randell wrote a paper on 50 transvestites and transsexuals that he had worked with. In his 1960 MD thesis 'Cross Dressing and the Desire To Change Sex' (University of Wales), Randell discussed 61 male to female and 16 female to male cases. This was one of the first higher degree theses on transsexuality. The Expert was born.
Part of Nye's Great Achievement.
During the 1960s Randell was seeing 50 cases a year, which rose to nearly 200 in the 1970s. And every one of them will have been treated like dirt.
They did For The Poor! It's what they dreamed of!
By Randell's own figures, he saw 2438 patients (1768 male to female, 670 female to male). He also spent half his time with general psychiatric patients. Told you so. This man was let loose on people whom he was able to detain for years in psychiatric hospitals or recommend for transfer to a high security institution, forcibly inject with drugs which could result in lifelong debilitating 'side effects' or of course kill the patient, forcibly impose ECT on the patient or lobotomise them against their wishes. Or he could simply refuse to treat desperately ill patients who were unable to look after themselves. In the event of ordering such 'treatment', or indeed witholding lifesaving treatment, Randell's manners, attitude or rapport with his patients will not have been any better than they were with Julia Grant.
In 1969, Randell's name was mentioned several times in press reports about the First International Symposium on Gender Identity and he testified at the Corbett vs Corbett trial that he 'considered that the respondent (ie April Ashley) is properly classified as a male homosexual transsexualist', which contributed to the legal problems of transsexuals and intersex persons in the UK for the next 35 years.
April Ashley is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by 'The Sunday People' in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had gender reassignment surgery. April Ashley was constantly told how vile she was by people who then asked her to have sex with them.
Corbett vs Corbett was the case concerned with April Ashley's divorce. Randell appeared for Arthur Corbett who was petitioning for his marriage to April Ashley to be annulled on the grounds that she was a man. Eeh, he's a raving male homosexual transsexualist. It's been diagnosed.
Readers might recognise the name of the person who wrote the foreword to the book, Prof Desmond Curran. Dessie has featured in previous posts (eg.'Meet The Gwerin!'). Dessie was the daddy of the paedophiles/people traffickers of St George's, Dessie having founded their esteemed Dept of Psychiatry, to which abusers flocked once Dessie set up shop. It was Dessie who 'treated' Norman Scott many years before Norman became headline news after Norman had a breakdown as a result of the harassment and intimidation from Mr Thrope and his friends. Norman ended up in the hands of Dessie because Dessie was an Expert on Sexual Perversion, rather than an Expert on criminals in public life who have shagged both Ma'am Darling and Lord Snowdon, who subsequently marry Miriam, the ex-wife of Lilibet's cousin and try to have their former non-Royal partners murdered. The diagnosis was that Norman was a worm, a liar, a vagabond, a loathsome spotted reptile and a man, or woman, who chews pillows for kicks and that Mr Thrope was one of the most intelligent, prettiest politicians who could have, had he wanted, become Prime Minister Of This Country Or President Of The World…
Mr Justice Cocklecarrot: 'And now you must retire, as must I'. Which indeed he did.
Harold Wilson's good friend the crooked solicitor Lord Arnold Goodman was the first to come to Mr Thrope's aid:
Lord Goodman was a big mate of Nye's widow Jennie Lee and Harold Wilson gave them the flagship project of the Open University to play with. By the time that Mr Thrope appeared at Minehead Magistrates Court for the committal hearing in Nov 1978, Sir David Napley was representing him. Napley turned up at Minehead in his Roller, just to show the magistrates who was boss.
George Carman QC the bent barrister, who had known about Dafydd and the gang and the Westminster Paedophile Ring for years, made his reputation by defending Mr Thrope at his subsequent Old Bailey trial in 1979.
Norman, the only man at Mr Thrope's Old Bailey trial who told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:
Now that Norman has been declared to be a Gay Icon at a film stars ceremony, I'm thinking of campaigning for him to become Head Of State. I don't know if Norman would want to do this, he might prefer to remain in Devon with his horses, but Norman would undoubtedly do a far better job of Leading The Country than the gang of lying criminals who tried to kill him.
I note that on the cover of Randell's book Dessie is described as the Chancellor's Medical Visitor. The Chancellor in this context is the Lord Chancellor, rather than the Chancellor of, for example, UCNW, which for the many years that Dafydd'g gang operated in UCNW was Carlo. The Medical Visitor is an expert accepted by the judiciary as being eminent in his field. So the Lord Chancellor accepted Dessie, the foundation stone of a sex abuse ring, as a Medical Visitor. That doesn't surprise me after the research that I've done over the past two years. That edition of Randell's book was published in 1976 – the book was originally published in 1973 – by which time business for Dafydd's gang was booming and as previous posts have made clear, the crimes of the gang and related gangs such as the one that Dessie founded in south London, were being concealed at the highest levels of Gov't. I'm not sure when Dessie attained the status of the Lord Chancellor's Medical Visitor, it could have been an honour conferred upon him years previously, but the Lord Chancellor 1974-79 was Lord Elwyn-Jones.
The Lord Elwyn-Jones
My post 'Lest We Forget' discussed how for many years, Elwyn Jones, a crooked Welsh layer, was one of the principal links between London and Wales in Dafydd's ring.
1976 was the momentous year in which panic gripped the paedophiles and their friends. In Jan 1976, Norman was prosecuted for a minor social security fraud which was linked to Mr Thrope's harassment and intimidation of him and the story was finally reported in the press. In March 1976, Andrew Newton, who alleged that he had been hired to kill Norman, appeared at Exeter Crown Court, was convicted of firearms offences and subsequently imprisoned. Norman appeared as a prosecution witness and explained what had been going on. It was becoming clear that Mr Thrope could well find himself charged with a serious criminal offence, which indeed he subsequently was.
The gwerin at UCNW began tearing each other's throats out in 1976 (see previous posts) and a new Chancellor of the University of Wales – who's constituent colleges included UCNW – was appointed, Carlo. Dai Francis, a Communist ex-miner who had led the south Wales branch of the NUM during the miner's strike which brought down Heath's Gov't also stood for election as Chancellor, but no-one was going to risk appointing Dai at a time like that. Dai was the father of Dr Hywel Francis, the Labour MP for Aberavon, 2001-15. Hywel Francis was succeeded in the seat by Windbag Jr. See previous posts…
Harold Wilson suddenly resigned as PM on 5 April 1976 and there has been speculation ever since that he knew that he had Alzheimers or ooh he was a KGB spy and was about to be outed… No, the reason was that Harold knew that things re the Westminster Paedophile Ring could unravel quite rapidly and he either jumped or was pushed by the security services. He was only pushed so far, Wilson remained in Parliament for many more years…
He's popped in for a curry on the way home and is ringing the wife with his lame excuses as to his delay.
Pussy Galore's fed up that he hasn't Told His Wife About Them yet.
So in true Paedophiles In Distress style, in 1976, an Expert who was Of The Gang published a book which advertised the credentials of the Expert who knew all about the loathsome spotted reptile who also happened to be a prosecution witness and could well be again in the near future but in a rather bigger case…
Norman, I am touched that the tactics employed to deal with you were very similar to those employed to deal with me! Hilarious, I begin a career in cancer research and suddenly Tony Francis's mate begins a career in cancer research, funded by the Cancer Research Campaign, just like I was and he even worked with people linked to the team of which I was a member. Only Peter Mcguire et al participated in a massive research fraud which ended in the suicide of one of their colleagues… Brown and I show an interest in publishing about the North Wales Hospital Denbigh and suddenly ooh look everyone, Dafydd's friends have published on the history of Denbigh, ooh you can't believe Brown and Baker, YUK, READ US, READ US, DON'T LISTEN TO THEM ANYONE, SHE'S MAD… Brown starts up a journal about Arts In Health and suddenly the Top Doctors are all Experts in Arts and Health.
Oh they are a fucking joke aren't they Norman. Brown shares his salary out with his friends who have been shafted by those bastards and makes do with three pairs of trousers and a few T shirty things and the troughing bastards continue to demand more and more and more, while stealing Brown's ideas because they just cannot do it themselves.
After the Corbett vs Corbett trial in 1969, which did transgender people no good at all, Randell was the Expert sought out by the media and appeared on the occasional radio programs. In 1980 the 'News of the Screws' claimed that Randell and his surgeon, Peter Phillip, had made London the 'sex-change capital of the world'. It will have been for people who were prepared to stuff Randell and Phillip's mouths with gold, there's always room for more gold in a Top Doc's mouth even after many years of Nye's largesse. Randell had not actually been in favour of surgery until his patients who had had surgery abroad returned with positive evaluations. Randell spotted the gold mine and knew that if he didn't start offering surgery as well, Top Docs overseas would be mining the rich seam that was waiting to be exploited… Even in the 1960s less than 10% of Randell's patients managed to achieve surgery and only a third of the male to females had vaginoplasty. In the 1970s when numbers increased, still only 15% of patients achieved surgery.
The irony is that during the recorded consultation with Julia, in her desperation to get help, Julia asked Randell if the process could be accelerated if she became a private patient. The old bastard snapped 'no, my opinion cannot be bought'. Oh yes it can and it was, but not by Julia.
When I was unlawfully refused all NHS care by the CEO of the NW Wales NHS Trust, I wrote to the then Welsh Gov't Health Minister Edwina Hart and asked to be therefore provided with access to alternative care. Edwina wrote back and said that she would not access any type of private care for me and she had done as much as she could. Well, she had confronted the CEO and Chairman of the Trust, but they ignored her, refused to investigate my complaint or provide the NHS care to which I was legally entitled, so Edwina backed off. I had given her enough evidence to have both of them arrested. The Welsh Gov't is now commissioning the private sector to treat thousands of patients because the NHS just has not done it. The Top Docs in Wales are also now deliberately keeping their waiting lists so long that desperate patients in severe pain are being forced to pay for private treatment. This is what happens when Gov'ts pander to criminals…
Drop a bomb on them someone.
With regard to transgender patients, I'm not at all sure that the sort of surgery that people were begging Randell for is a good idea, but there isn't the scope in this post to expand on precisely why. Can I just note that one of my main reservations is that I have known for years that distressed vulnerable patients end up in the hands of Randell and people like him, who cannot be trusted further than one can spit a rat and who simply are not the people to advise on complex gender identity problems? I do understand that people feeling uncomfortable with their gender can feel absolutely desperate, but this lot are really not going to help, even these days. Hamfisted liars and conmen who really are best avoided…
In 1990 Dafydd tried to persuade a 19 yr old patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd to undergo gender reassignment surgery because he was gay. Dr Sadie Francis was later appointed as a gender identity specialist for Gwynedd, although she had no experience in this area. In the late 1980s, Sadie was appointed as a consultant psychiatrist although she was not, by GMC regulations, permitted to hold a consultant's post, having not followed the appropriate career path. The GMC knew that a fiddle had been carried out and colluded with it. For many years the gender identity specialist in north Wales was Dr Kenny Midence, a clin psy who is a long standing member of Dafydd's gang and has co-authored with gang members. Comments online regarding Midence's service – he has a big private practice – suggest that if one hands the dosh over to Kenny, he'll write the referral for gender reassignment surgery. It probably makes the patients leaving Midence's office feel a lot better than those who left Randell's did, but the 'all comers welcome in return for dosh' approach could prove disastrous a few years down the line if someone regrets their decision.
When Randell realised that the customers and their money were going elsewhere, he began arguing that surgery could be appropriate and that psychotherapy did not work. Even then Randell restricted surgery to 'sane, intelligent, single and passable individuals'. 'Passable' meaning conforming to Randell's rather 1950s ideas of being 'ladylike'…. Dafydd once yelled at me that I was not a 'normal woman'. Of course I wasn't, I had a brain and I took the piss out of him.
Randell must have been a bit like one of the men in the Monty Python 'Nudge Nudge' sketch, in which Having Sex With A Lady is discussed. 'Photographs ay he asked him knowingly'. Yeh, the child porn that was being produced in north Wales by Dafydd's gang, or Dafydd's mate Prof Linford Rees's photos of Bathing Beauties (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent').
Lest anyone wade in with analyses of Randell's idiocy being a consequence of him being in possession of testicles, let me tell you that I know Lady Doctors and Angels who's ideas are every bit as laughable. One Lady Doctor told a friend of mine that many Lady Doctors think that 'periods are horrible old fashioned things which we could well do without'; an Angel I know told female psych patients that they should always shave their armpits – similar advice was dispensed by 'Jackie' magazine in 1976; a Top Doc stated in front of female Angels that he could tell when his Lady Patients were well because they wore dresses; one of the much nicer Lady Doctors at Springfield Hospital always wore dresses to work 'because a lot of my young female patients have problems with their femininity, so I always wear a dress to show them that I'm proud to be a woman'. I can see the idea behind that and this Lady Doctor wasn't a vicious bitch like her colleagues, but she did know that some of her colleagues were sexually abusing their patients which might be why so many of the patients were in such distress. The nicer Lady Doctor wearing a dress wasn't going to be sufficient to address that…
I could supply readers with many more laffs, the point that I am making is that the Top Docs and co are frequently as thick as yak shit and narrow minded with it and of course in north Wales and other areas they were preparing their patients for the sex trade. There are also many Top Docs and their colleagues with serious problems themselves in terms of body image, eating disorders etc and in in abusive relationships. Then there are the swathes on anti-depressants or who have alcohol problems… Dysfunction is everywhere among them and often their children.
Until the end of his life, Randall continued to refer to patients, including post-operatives, by the pronouns of their birth gender and would tell a male to female accepted for surgery that 'you'll always be a man'. This won't have reflected any clinical position of Randell's, it'll just have been Randell trying to be as offensive as possible. The general psychiatry patients will have been asked to discuss their anxieties and then the info will have been used to cause them as much distress as possible. Marjorie Dawes is far more realistic than people who are not Empowered Service Users ever realise.
Most patients described Randell as brusque, rude and cold. However the model Tula aka Bond girl Caroline Cossey found him to be 'absolutely charming'. Tula equated to Randell's idea of what a woman was. Esther claimed that Sir Nicholas Fairbairn was absolutely charming and he was a child molesting, wife-beating drunk. See previous posts. If one wants to achieve stardom, one is obliged to say that foul people are absolutely charming.
Randell is the doctor who told Christopher Wilson, the author of Dancing With The Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue, that Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, had Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. This rumour was doing the rounds, but one needs to ask how would Randell have known and if he did know for certain, what was he doing breaching confidentiality? The Royals are not immune from being kicked in the chops by the Top Docs, when I worked at St George's, 1989-91, the gynae records of a member of the Royal Family were being passed around and were the source of much ribaldry and moralising. I suspect that this person had been smeared by the Top Docs for the same reason that Wallis Simpson was, but I am saying no more lest the target is identified.
Other patients of Randell's included Rachel Padman, the physicist and Alice Purnell, the activist.
Purnell as a boy was sexually and physically abused at prep school by the Headmaster who was later convicted. Purnell worked as a research chemist and volunteer with the Samaritans. In 1965 Purnell, with Sylvia Carter, founded the Beaumont Society for transvestites. Initially there were almost as many overseas members as in the UK, with some in Malaysia, Kenya and other parts of the Commonwealth. Alice became the overseas contact person because of her French. Regional contacts were appointed but were often the only member in their region. Purnell was offered surgery by John Randell in 1966, but turned it down and married a woman instead, going on to have a family with her.
Alice was on Radio 4 with agony aunt Claire Raynor. Raynor knew about Top Doctors facilitating abuse, including Dafydd et al, many years ago. She kept quiet because she wanted a media career as Claire Rayner. See previous posts. Alice attended the TV/TS conferences at Leeds University in 1974, and Leicester University in 1975 – the latter was organized by the Beaumont Society. Leeds and Leicester were both host to paedophile/trafficking gangs directly linked to Dafydd's gang. Also in 1975, Alice was a co-founder of the Beaumont Trust, a registered charity, which separately from the Beaumont Society, set up a helpline and published educational booklets on transgender topics. In 1976 Alice became Vice-President of the Beaumont Society, and President a year later.
In 1977, Alice trained as a nurse, specializing in geriatric services. She then worked as such for 26 years, at one time becoming a matron, including nursing support for transgender surgery.
She finally had surgery in 1982 after the dissolution of her marriage and remained President of the Beaumont Society until 1984. Alice joined HBIGDA (now WPATH) and attended its European meetings. She found that they were dominated by US concerns and that the Standards of Care were mainly to protect the surgeons and that the emphasis was on psychiatry rather than on psychology/counselling. Alice organized the first of the GENDYS conferences which was held at Manchester University in 1990, a conference which brought together each type of professional who deals with trans persons and each type of trans person. There were a further seven GENDYS conferences.
After obtaining a Masters degree in counselling and psychology, Alice co-founded the Gender Trust. It was a registered charity intended to help transgender rather than transvestite persons. Alice has lived most of her life in Sussex, the location of Dafydd's partner gang as well as the brothels to which John Allen trafficked kids in care from north Wales.
Alice Purnell was awarded an OBE in the 2012 New Years Honours List, 'for services to Transgender People'. Alice Purnell contributed "Why does transexuality exist?" and "TV, TG, TS – What's in a label?" in Michael Trevor Haslam's volume Transvestism: A Guide. Beaumont Trust, 1993. Michael Haslam was one of the psychiatrists who starred in the Kerr-Haslam scandal. Haslam and his colleague William Kerr were Top Docs based in Yorkshire who raped and assaulted their female patients over decades under the guise of 'sex therapy'. Numerous complaints were made about them by patients and a la Dafydd, their activities were openly discussed. An Angel who raised concerns was demoted and a Professor at Leeds who complained about them was told to shut it or he'd lose his job. There was no investigation until the 1990s when Kerr and Haslam were approaching retirement. Only one of them was imprisoned and not for very long. See post 'All The Ingredients Of A Scandal'. One woman patient who had been assaulted by them was told that she would not be allowed to amend the records that they compiled about her. When the scandal finally hit the media, representatives of MIND who had ignored my complaints about those we know and love in north Wales appeared on prime time TV declaring that they were shocked and disgusted.
John Randell died of a heart attack in 1982. Just as Mary Wynch's litigation against Dafydd and the gang began to move in the direction of the Master of the Rolls…
Here's a few of the Expert's contributions to the World Of Knowledge. I haven't got the time to review them here, but I can guarantee that there'll be plenty of laffs for anyone who reads them.
- John B. Randell. "The Early Recognition of Psychiatric Disorders in Adults". Medicine Illustrated, vol IV, 215-220, 1950.
- John B. Randell. "Euphoriant Effects Of "Preludin". The British Medical Journal. 2, 5043, 1957: 508-509.
- John B. Randell. "Transvestitism And Trans-Sexualism: A Study Of 50 Cases". The British Medical Journal. 2, 5164, 1959: 1448-1452.
- John B. Randell. Cross Dressing and the Desire to change Sex, MD Thesis, University of Wales, 1960.
- John B. Randell. "Preoperative and Postoperative Status of Male and Female Transsexuals" in Richard Green & John Money (eds), Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969.
- John B. Randell. "Indications for Sex Reassignment Surgery". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1:2, 153-161, 1971.
- John B. Randell. Sexual Variations. London: Priory Press. 1973.
- John B. Randell. Transsexualism and its management, Nursing Mirror, 45-47, 1977.
- David Pearson (dir). A Change of Sex. With Julia Grant. BBC TV. 1980.
- Alice Purnell. "Dr John Randell", Beaumont Bulletin, 14:2, 1982.
- "Dr J.B. Randell", S.H.A.F.T. Newsletter, 15, 1982.
- Dave King. "Pioneers of Transgendering: John Randell, 1918-1982". University of Ulster: Gendys Conference, 2002. www.gender.org.uk/conf/2002/king22.htm.
I don't know whether the offensive John Randell of Charing Cross had offspring who became Top Docs as so many Top Docs do, but there is a Dr John Randall who was/is the Clinical Lead for the Blackburn with Darwen NHS Clinical Commissioning Group. His surname is Randall rather than Randell, but one look at Dr Randall's biography tells us that he will know about the ring in the north west of England which was facilitated by Dafydd's mates:
Dr Randall, MB ChB, MRCGP, DRCOG, DipOccMED, qualified from Manchester University in 1988. He completed his hospital vocational training in Blackburn before becoming a GP in his current practice, in 1992; he is GP Principal at Oakenhurst Medical Practice in Barbara Castle Health Centre. Prior to the CCG forming in 2013, Dr Randall was a lead GP in Cardio Vascular Health for Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust from 2002 until 2008. As well as working in Occupational Medicine in various Lancashire industries, he was elected by his colleagues to the Local Medical Committee in 2011 and subsequently Vice Chair in 2012. He is a passionate advocate in emphasising the true value of family medicine. Dr Randall is married with three teenage children. His interests outside of medicine include Manchester City FC, exploring the Highlands of Scotland and long distance running.
John Randell the offensive git from Charing Cross is all over the internet on trans websites; I note that he was linked with many of those we know and love who have starred on this blog before, particularly the lunatic Cardiff University contingent such as Dr Roy Mottram, who was a leading light in the Beaumont Society, along with Alice Purnell. See previous posts. The medical students at Cardiff in the 1980s knew that Mottram et al were bonkers and to be avoided and by the time that they were junior doctors they knew about Dafydd's gang, about George Thomas, the lot. Those who didn't want to be forced out of medicine and have their lives destroyed kept quiet about all of it. Those docs are now in their late 50s/early 60s and occupy roles as Professors and leaders of the profession. The gang rape of children and murders of witnesses. They knew about it.
After the offensive git from Charing Cross blocked Julia Grant's surgery, Julia found another surgeon who Helped, Dr Michael Royle. After her gender reassignment surgery, Julia subsequently haemorrhaged, collapsed and nearly died. She was taken to hospital and was accused of having performed an abortion on herself. The Top Docs didn't even realise that Julia didn't have a uterus in which to gestate a foetus to abort, but had in fact undergone reassignment surgery which had gone horribly wrong. Julia believed that the Top Docs didn't understand what had happened because in those days gender reassignment was so rare. No, they were either grossly incompetent or they knew that Julia had crossed the path of the Fuhrer in Charing Cross so like Brown and I, Julia was on the blacklist and competent healthcare would never be forthcoming. I have not read anything that suggests that Dr Michael Royle, the surgeon who nearly killed Julia and left her with lifelong disabilities, was ever the focus of an investigation.
When the documentary about Julia Grant that I watched was screened, I was in the throes of Empowered Service Userdom and was regularly being arrested by Dafydd's gang on the grounds of their perjury. I watched the documentary with Patient F and we discussed how Julia's life had been wrecked by the Top Docs. A few days later we discussed the programme with Ella Fisk, the Angel who ran the day centre at the Hergest Unit. Ella told us that she was incensed by Randell's treatment of his patient and that when she was young, she had known a lot of Top Docs like that, but now things were very different. Ella knew about Dafydd and the gang. She knew that at the very time that she had that discussion with me, that I had no idea that Tony Francis had for years being forging documents and evidence about my alleged 'dangerousness', that he was still doing this and that Francis and Dafydd had collected 'evidence' from numerous third parties, even from people with links to the gang who knew me in Somerset when I was a teenager, which was being accumulated to justify my incarceration in a secure hospital.
Ella didn't conduct herself like they did, I liked Ella, but she knew what they were doing and did not raise any concerns. I suspect that Ella was terrified of them. But the security services knew what they were doing as well and they didn't stop them either.
There is a lot of info about the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic and it's history online; it is fascinating stuff and I could be blogging about that alone for several posts, so I'll just make a few brief observations here. People involved with the Charing Cross GIC were also involved with the Albany Trust, which has at times conducted out research in support of paedophilia. The Albany Trust received Home Office funding when Leon Brittan was Home Secretary.
Rachael Webb underwent gender reassignment surgery as a result of a referral from Charing Cross. I encountered Rachael Webb when I worked at Bangor University. After Brown and I had appeared in the media discussing the parlous state of the mental health services, Rachael began e mailing me. That was fine by me, we received communication from a few people who had been treated appallingly but who's complaints had got nowhere and one couple were in hiding after having received threats. However it became clear that Rachael's reason for contacting me wasn't to support an improved deal for the targets of those we know and love. Rachael asked Brown and I to act as expert witnesses to help her to get her HGV licence back after she had lost it as the result of a drink driving conviction. I explained that we were sociologists, we were in no position to act as expert medical witnesses. She suggested that we should just lie. I said no. So Rachael offered to pay us to lie. I said no and Rachael told me that it was OK to lie as an expert witness, a Top Doctor had done it before for her… He was probably called Dafydd.
John Randell's partner in crime, Peter Phillip, who performed the surgery on those whom Randell deemed suitable on the basis that they had the characteristics of Real Women and wore nylons, girdles, ran a duster over the shelves daily and couldn't do science, was a urologist. Virtually all trace of Peter Phillip has been eliminated from the internet. North Wales however has its very own Peter Phillip, in terms of a urologist who was enthusiastic about gender reassignment surgery. I am talking about Dr Chris aka Christine Evans, a local celeb in Denbighshire. Dr Chris is a retired surgeon who worked at the lethal Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, but like Dafydd, Dr Chris continued working after retirement and used this to protect Dafydd's gang. Dr Chris also served as a Councillor for Prestatyn and was a mover and shaker behind 'The Raven', a community pub. Dr Chris helpfully wrote a blog in her capacity as a Councillor, in which she explained that she would ensure that the jobs of her surgeon colleagues at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd would be protected now that they were under threat. Were these surgeons local heroes, dedicated to their patients? No. They were grossly incompetent, had killed a few too many people and openly boasted that they were running the 'service' for their convenience, not for that of the patients. They were so bad that even the Royal College of Surgeons wrote a report condemning them and saying that the situation could not be allowed to continue. Call Dr Chris!
The surgeons of Ysbyty Glan Clwyd had disgraced themselves to such a degree that no-one would listen to the word of a surgeon from Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, so Dr Chris couldn't wield influence in that way. Dr Chris hit on a better ruse. Dr Chris doubled up as a Patients' Champ and got her mates to appoint her to the post of Leader of the North Wales Community Health Council, the Patients' Voice and Watchdog. It wasn't difficult for Dr Chris to do this, because the CHC appointments are not in the gift of a democratic vote on the part of any group of patients, they are instead the responsibility of the Welsh Gov't and County Councils. Dr Chris wasn't the only Top Doc on the CHC; there was a GP from Anglesey as well as Dr Sadie Francis. Other CHC members included Councillors and their relatives or other NHS staff and their friends and relatives. More recently, Eleanor Burnham, a former Lib Dem AM who was a social work manager and member of the Mental Health Tribunal for the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, arrived on the CHC after poor old Dr Chris resigned in the wake of revelations re her agenda. See previous posts…
When Dr Chris was the Patients' Voice, the CHC simply refused to investigate complaints about the mental health services, as well as many other matters. Dr Chris had to attend the Betsi Board meetings in her capacity as the Patients' Champ, so Dr Chris would turn up for the meeting, stay for the first 15 minutes during which time she would Give Her Orders and then would walk out, leaving everyone else to remain for the rest of the 2 hour (or longer) meeting.
I studied Dr Chris and I noticed that she was of the variety of Lady Surgeon who was so butch that she certainly wouldn't pass John Randall's Femininity Test. Dr Chris, being a urologist, was well-known for operating on men's bits and she would use her status in this regard to intimidate men. All men, not just men upon whom she had operated. This is a known technique of Lady Doctors like Dr Chris; Dr Chris had a reputation among women patients of being a crude old bag who was not to be taken seriously, but men are less likely to take the piss out of the Dr Chris's of the earth. It's OK men, we did it for you! Dr fucking Chris had no idea of the hilarity that she elicited, which was how I was able to gather so much info on her and publicise why she had led a Military Coup at the CHC.
Dr Chris was a friend of Tony Francis.
Dr Chris enjoyed photo opportunities and during her Brave Battle to defend the jobs of the mates of a gang of paedophiles who were maiming and killing their patients. Dr Chris had her photo taken with Wales's most famous transgender person and indeed one of the most well-known trans people in the world, the travel writer Jan Morris. When Jan was James, she was part of the 1953 Everest expedition team, along with Sir Charles Evans, the Principal of UNCW for so many years… Jan and her son Twm Morys, another well-known Welsh writer, were generous in their praise of Dr Chris. Jan used to be a posh English man from Oxford but he reinvented himself as a Welsh woman of the proletariat. Jan's son Twm spent his early years in Oxford, then went to Shrewsbury School, but he too is now a patriotic Welshman. I have no objection to this, of course it's great when people who migrate to Wales love the country and Jan and Twm are both talented writers, but they have certainly provided much good PR for some very unpleasant people. See previous posts…
Jan Morris was one of John Randell's patients in the early 1960s. Randell did offer Jan surgery but she could only have surgery in the UK if she divorced her wife, which, to Jan's credit, she refused to do. So Jan went to Casablanca and had surgery there. Jan's book 'Conundrum' provided an account of it. Jan has not suffered at the hands of John Randell, Dr Chris et al in the way that so many others have, because Jan is posh, she has money and is a famous writer. So the Top Docs who butcher and abuse the proles use Jan for a bit of free publicity when anyone dares challenge them.
The security services knew that John Randell was a dangerous doctor who was part of a network facilitating serious organised crime. No-one stopped him. Hundreds of vulnerable, desperate patients continued to be sent into his jaws, as well as into the jaws of his mates.
So why did you let it happen then MI5? It wasn't just me, I was just one who happened to survive. Where were the public warnings? Why were patients not told?
Julia Grant was part of the LGBT scene in Manchester in the 1980s and 90s. She knew about Bob Hobson et al and she knew about the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal as well. I bet that Julia also knew about Sir Peter Morrison in Chester and the Westminster Paedophile Ring. If a kid who had grown up in care in north Wales could tell me some 10 yrs ago about the 'vice ring' in Buck House involving Backstairs Billy aka William Tallon, the Queen Mum's loyal retainer who died from an HIV related illness in 2007, why was that vice ring only reported in the media recently? It was in existence by the 1980s and probably years before then.
Now don't you worry my dear, we'll look after you…


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Creates a thread that runs in the virtual address space of another process.
Use the CreateRemoteThreadEx function to create a thread that runs in the virtual address space of another process and optionally specify extended attributes.
HANDLE WINAPI CreateRemoteThread(
_In_ HANDLE hProcess,
_In_ LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes,
_In_ SIZE_T dwStackSize,
_In_ LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE lpStartAddress,
_In_ LPVOID lpParameter,
_In_ DWORD dwCreationFlags,
_Out_ LPDWORD lpThreadId
- hProcess [in]
A handle to the process in which the thread is to be created. The handle must have the PROCESS_CREATE_THREAD, PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, PROCESS_VM_OPERATION, PROCESS_VM_WRITE, and PROCESS_VM_READ access rights, and may fail without these rights on certain platforms. For more information, see Process Security and Access Rights.
- lpThreadAttributes [in]
A pointer to a SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES structure that specifies a security descriptor for the new thread and determines whether child processes can inherit the returned handle. If lpThreadAttributes is NULL, the thread gets a default security descriptor and the handle cannot be inherited. The access control lists (ACL) in the default security descriptor for a thread come from the primary token of the creator.
Windows XP: The ACLs in the default security descriptor for a thread come from the primary or impersonation token of the creator. This behavior changed with Windows XP with SP2 and Windows Server 2003.
- dwStackSize [in]
The initial size of the stack, in bytes. The system rounds this value to the nearest page. If this parameter is 0 (zero), the new thread uses the default size for the executable. For more information, see Thread Stack Size.
- lpStartAddress [in]
A pointer to the application-defined function of type LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE to be executed by the thread and represents the starting address of the thread in the remote process. The function must exist in the remote process. For more information, see ThreadProc.
- lpParameter [in]
A pointer to a variable to be passed to the thread function.
- dwCreationFlags [in]
The flags that control the creation of the thread.
Value Meaning
- 0
The thread runs immediately after creation.
- 0x00000004
The thread is created in a suspended state, and does not run until the ResumeThread function is called.
- 0x00010000
The dwStackSize parameter specifies the initial reserve size of the stack. If this flag is not specified, dwStackSize specifies the commit size.
- lpThreadId [out]
A pointer to a variable that receives the thread identifier.
If this parameter is NULL, the thread identifier is not returned.
Return value
If the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the new thread.
If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.
Note that CreateRemoteThread may succeed even if lpStartAddress points to data, code, or is not accessible. If the start address is invalid when the thread runs, an exception occurs, and the thread terminates. Thread termination due to a invalid start address is handled as an error exit for the thread's process. This behavior is similar to the asynchronous nature of CreateProcess, where the process is created even if it refers to invalid or missing dynamic-link libraries (DLL).
The CreateRemoteThread function causes a new thread of execution to begin in the address space of the specified process. The thread has access to all objects that the process opens.
Terminal Services isolates each terminal session by design. Therefore, CreateRemoteThread fails if the target process is in a different session than the calling process.
The new thread handle is created with full access to the new thread. If a security descriptor is not provided, the handle may be used in any function that requires a thread object handle. When a security descriptor is provided, an access check is performed on all subsequent uses of the handle before access is granted. If the access check denies access, the requesting process cannot use the handle to gain access to the thread.
If the thread is created in a runnable state (that is, if the CREATE_SUSPENDED flag is not used), the thread can start running before CreateThread returns and, in particular, before the caller receives the handle and identifier of the created thread.
The thread is created with a thread priority of THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL. Use the GetThreadPriority and SetThreadPriority functions to get and set the priority value of a thread.
When a thread terminates, the thread object attains a signaled state, which satisfies the threads that are waiting for the object.
The thread object remains in the system until the thread has terminated and all handles to it are closed through a call to CloseHandle.
The ExitProcess, ExitThread, CreateThread, CreateRemoteThread functions, and a process that is starting (as the result of a CreateProcess call) are serialized between each other within a process. Only one of these events occurs in an address space at a time. This means the following restrictions hold:
- During process startup and DLL initialization routines, new threads can be created, but they do not begin execution until DLL initialization is done for the process.
- Only one thread in a process can be in a DLL initialization or detach routine at a time.
- ExitProcess returns after all threads have completed their DLL initialization or detach routines.
A common use of this function is to inject a thread into a process that is being debugged to issue a break. However, this use is not recommended, because the extra thread is confusing to the person debugging the application and there are several side effects to using this technique:
- It converts single-threaded applications into multithreaded applications.
- It changes the timing and memory layout of the process.
- It results in a call to the entry point of each DLL in the process.
Another common use of this function is to inject a thread into a process to query heap or other process information. This can cause the same side effects mentioned in the previous paragraph. Also, the application can deadlock if the thread attempts to obtain ownership of locks that another thread is using.
Minimum supported client
Windows XP [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2003 [desktop apps only]
See also
- CloseHandle
- CreateProcess
- CreateRemoteThreadEx
- CreateThread
- ExitProcess
- ExitThread
- GetThreadPriority
- Process and Thread Functions
- ResumeThread
- SetThreadPriority
- ThreadProc
- Threads


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My bad.Originally Posted by TT Boy
My bad.Originally Posted by TT Boy
nice sunny day for the cricket today, apparently it could get cloudy later in the day but 0% chance of rain...
should be a good game and hopefully the PM's XI bat first and Jaques can get us off to a good start...
PM's XI decent odds given the side England are probably putting out
There's some really good players in this PM's XI side. Hilfenhaus is one of the better young seamers in Australia, and there's some top batsmen there too with Jaques, Birt and Cosgrove, all of whom are pretty likely to play for Australia in the future. Paine's had a really good season so far too, and Adam Voges is a good hitter.
Should be a good game.
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Just started, England team according to Cricinfo:
ME Trescothick, AJ Strauss, AN Cook, PD Collingwood, KP Pietersen, A Flintoff, GO Jones, AF Giles, SI Mahmood, JM Anderson, MS Panesar
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Geraint gets first go, and a monty-ashley bowl-off, interesting.Originally Posted by Scaly piscine
I'm ridiculously excited for a silly warm-up game
Freddie opens the bowling.
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are these local comms? they didn't say who they were when they crossed over from the studio.
Fred looks alright so far, bowling a decent line to Jaqcues
Brain freeze from Payne there, decent catch by Gojo
Great catch, is that freddies first ever wicket in oz for england?
Geoff Lawson and Afghanistan are the commers'.
Bit of a slog there from Payne.
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Cosgroves still fat I see.
Bit of a loose over from Jimmy there. I didn't realise it started so early. Just turn over from the Sopranos & was shocked to see it'd started.
Top catch from Geraint there, in all fairness.
My Cosgrove's tubby.
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Touch of the no-balls from Saj in his first over. Don't think he'll wanna be giving Cosgrove too much width either.
Yep, Freddie is, close to 90, and bowling a good line to the left-handers, haydos and gilly, are you watching
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Watching: TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley
Chapter 1: Who is Vulnerable? [5:55]
Jane Pauley talks about her bipolar diagnosis and introduces the panel experts. Is everyone vulnerable to depression?
Transcript: Chapter 1 - Who is Vulnerable?
JANE PAULEY: Welcome to Take One Step: Caring for Depression. Hello, I'm Jane Pauley. Well, you've probably learned a lot from the documentary, Depression: Out of the Shadows. It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel. When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.
But experience does not make me an expert. Let me introduce the knowledgeable members of our panel. Dr. Dennis Charney, the dean of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York has directed research programs at Yale University and the National Institutes of Mental Health in the science of depression, bipolar, and anxiety, and the drugs used in their treatment.
JANE PAULEY: Dr. Annelle Primm is the director of minority and national affairs at the American Psychiatric Association and an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Medically underserved communities are Dr. Primm's special focus. And she's an expert on the relationship between mental health and substance abuse.
And Dr. Ken Duckworth is a noted psychiatrist in private practice, and particularly in community health, and a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School. But as medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI, his mission is to help people outside the medical community, like you and me, better understand mental illness. Thank you all for being here, and welcome.
(Thank you)
A 90-minute documentary barely scratched the surface, but it's obvious that depression comes in so many different variations. And the symptoms are pretty various as well. Dr. Primm, is there any underlying, uh, continuity, any common denominator among those symptoms?
DR. ANNELLE PRIMM: Well, the common denominator that I see is that in all of these individuals, they experienced a change from their normal selves, from their baseline in the context of depression, where their mood changed or their sense of self changed or their outlook on life, their activity level. So very important to focus on the way that change affects the person and the way they express depression.
JANE PAULEY: I'll insert just a brief personal experience. Before I was ever diagnosed with depression, the depression was going to become significant in my life, I had a period where I didn't feel right. And after a period of months, I think, I went to my husband one evening and I said, "I think something's wrong with me." And he said, essentially, "Funny you should mention it. Because," and he ticked off my five best friends, "...have all asked, is Jane okay?" Friends and family, will recognize this change, will they not?
DR. ANNELLE PRIMM: They will recognize it. And that's why we often look to what we call collateral informants, the people around an individual, their family, their friends, even their beautician to find out if this person has changed in some way when we are trying to fill out the history and understand how the depression came about.
JANE PAULEY: How does it come about? Let's talk about vulnerability. Is everybody vulnerable? And I know everybody is not equally vulnerable. Dr. Charney?
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: That's the point. Everybody to a degree is vulnerable, but it's not equal. And there are several reasons we can say that. One is, we have found that depression and bipolar disorder is in part genetic. So because of your genes-- and many genes may relate to depression and bipolar disorder-- uh, that gives you an extra vulnerability. And if you add to that a stressful life, then the vulnerability gets even greater. So it's a combination of your genetics and the environment in which you are brought up, in which you live.
JANE PAULEY: And the documentary indicated that it was one-third genetics, and the rest are environmental. But that could include your experiences, include trauma, include exposure to drugs, uh, in uh my case it was exposure to medically precscribed drugs...
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: Well, the one-third number that you mentioned, that it's one-third genetic, is really on average. When you get down to the level of the individual person, it's gonna vary. Because, for example, if you have a family history in which your father and/or your mother have depression, and there's depression in your grandparents, the genetic contribution to your risk of getting depressed is much more than one-third. However, if you have a family history in which there is no depression or anxiety or substance abuse, but you have a very stressful life, you're brought up in poverty, you've been traumatized in different ways, then the environmental factor is gonna be much greater than the genetic factor. So you really have to look at the individual, and not look at things in general.
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Oilers regroup to down Hurricanes in OT
Edmonton, AB (SportsNetwork.com) - Jordan Eberle's power play goal 1:48 into overtime saved two points for the Edmonton Oilers, lifting them to a 5-4 win over the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Oilers coughed up a 4-1 lead over a period and a half, with Jeff Skinner's goal late in the third tying it for Carolina.
But Hurricanes defenseman Justin Faulk was sent off 19 seconds into overtime, penalized for boarding after hitting Ryan Nugent-Hopkins from behind in the corner to give the Oilers a 4-on-3.
Eberle scored on a second-chance shot through the legs of Carolina defenseman Andrej Sekera, who was covering the net on the left side for Cam Ward.
Taylor Hall, Nail Yakupov, Jesse Joensuu and Nugent-Hopkins also scored for the Oilers, who moved to 2-1-1 on a five-game homestand. Devan Dubnyk made 24 saves for the win.
"It was a weird game but we found a way to win," Eberle said.
Tuomo Ruutu, Jordan Staal and Eric Staal also scored for the Hurricanes, who lost their second straight to start a four-game road trip but at least came away with a point after giving up four goals in the first 21:40 of the game.
"We showed some good jump battling back into the game," said Eric Staal. "Unfortunately, we had to kill a lot of penalties."
Ward gave up five goals on 29 shots and Carolina fell to 2-10-2 when trailing after two periods.
Eric Staal faked a slap shot on the left side to pull Dubnyk out of the net, then skated around him to score, pulling the Hurricanes within a goal 7:47 into the third period.
Skinner's tying goal came on a turnaround slap shot from the high right side that beat Dubnyk on the far side with 5:14 left in regulation.
The Oilers controlled play early and Hall scored 93 seconds into the game. Ruutu tied it less than three minutes later on Carolina's only power play, but Yakupov and Nugent-Hopkins pushed the Edmonton lead to 3-1 before the period was over.
Joensuu's goal from the slot 1:40 into the second period off a feed from Mark Arcobello behind the net staked the Oilers to their three-goal lead. Jordan Staal scored midway through period.
Game Notes
Edmonton is 7-1-0 when leading after two periods ... The Hurricanes continue their road trip Thursday in Calgary ... The Oilers finish their homestand against Boston on Thursday.


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Set the Table with Maple Mixed Drinks
Written onApril 03 , 2013
When we asked Claire Georges if there were any recipes she wanted to add in the update, she said to make sure the maple sours mix was in this article - it is and has clearly stood the test of time (mix it with gin, or with seltzer, or with gin + seltzer). One absent beverage is this variation on a hot toddy - make a cup of almond tea (that's a Celestial Seasonings flavor not a fancy recipe), add a shot of whisky, 2 Tb of maple syrup, squeeze in a wedge of meyer lemon or regular lemon . . . or for something more desserty leave out the lemon and add cream instead. This is a recipe pulled from the recesses of sugaring memory and if you do not love it, do not blame Claire.
While Vermonters know that maple flows well beyond the breakfast table, we don't regularly take it behind the bar. So when, at the request of Local Banquet, I started on the quest of tippling the tree, I had some good starting points, but mostly got to invent. Some of the creations were immediately delicious, while others needed to stick to their day jobs.
The most immediate and obvious way to imbibe with maple is just to swap maple syrup for simple syrup in an existing recipe. Or add a splash of Grade B to your favorite spirit on the rocks. But you can go oh-so-much farther, and contrary to assumption, maple syrup isn't just for the sweet drinks. My new favorite evening go-to (as of starting this article) is Vermont Sazerac, my New England version of the New Orleans staple. It is herbaceous, sharp, smooth, and scrumptious. The traditional version is made with Peychaud bitters, but in all of my bitters experimentations I keep going back to Vermont's own Urban Moonshine, made in Burlington. Their organic bitters is hands-down my favorite. (A little goes a long way, so it's well worth the organic penny.)
Vermont Sazerac
1/2 tsp. absinthe
2 oz. WhistlePig rye whiskey
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1/2 oz. Vermont maple syrup
1/4 tsp. Urban Moonshine bitters
Swirl the absinthe in a rocks glass to coat the glass.
In a shaker, shake the rest of the ingredients with ice and
pour everything into the prepared glass.
Speaking of WhistlePig, a little while back I met the folks from this Shoreham-based whiskey maker at a party and one of them recommended a WhistlePig mixed drink that sounded kind of interesting (in both senses of the word). They didn't give me ratios or a name for the drink, so I went home and came up with the recipe, while my fiancé came up with the name. This drink is shockingly good and appears to be liked by sweet and savory drinkers alike. It's a great cocktail to make pre-dinner when you've just opened a bottle of red wine to add to the pasta sauce.
Red Whistle
1 oz. WhistlePig rye whiskey
1 oz. red wine
1/2 oz. Vermont maple syrup
1/2 oz. lime (or lemon) juice
Shake everything over ice and pour into a rocks glass.
Bars usually cook up simple syrup in large quantities to have at the ready for many a mixed drink, but we in the maple world have sugar-peeps to do that for us. Still, there are some mixes that benefit from planned preparation. When citrus is in season (during our cold winter months), I now buy bags and bags of the stuff. With a simple hand juicer, I press out fresh lemon, lime, and orange juice to make large batches of maple sours mix. Then I keep mason jars full of the sweet and sour goodness in the back of my fridge for whenever the need arises.
This delicious variation on the sugary college staple can be added to just about anything. Your favorite distilled spirit + sours is simple and refreshing any time of year. My fiancé has taken to adding it to his rum and Coke in place of a squirt of lime. Meanwhile, my sours-du-jour has become a Gin Sours. There are more types of gin created in our region than of any other spirit besides vodka. That makes this gin lover very happy, but if you're not a gin lover, I encourage you to take a second taste of our new regional delicacy. Green Mountain Distillers, Caledonia Spirits, and Smugglers' Notch are making gin in Vermont (with Vermont Spirits Gin coming soon), while Flag Hill Distillery in New Hampshire (not to be confused with Flag Hill Farm in Vershire) is making Karner Blue Gin out of apples, and there is a Quebec flavored gin made just north of the border called Ungava. Mix any of these very different gins with tonic, sours, or just ice and see which becomes your go-to.
Maple Sours Mix
juice of 2 lemons (1/2 cup)
juice of 2 limes (1/2 cup)
juice of one large orange (1/2 cup)
1 cup Vermont maple syrup
Mix all the ingredients together and store for later use.
Before we leave the tastiness of homemade maple sours behind, I have to mention a delicious drink that you could totally defend as a health tonic. At a recent delicious dinner at Montpelier's Kismet restaurant, I was introduced to the Kombuchita. I immediately needed to re-create it at home so I could partake at a moment's notice.
4 oz. kombucha (cranberry or your
favorite flavor)
1 oz. Vermont maple sours
1 oz. tequila
Mix all ingredients and pour over ice.
My friend Helen was tasked with writing a companion article to this one, so we decided that we needed to have a "work meeting" to "collaborate." Yes, that did mean creating many, many mixed drinks with maple, and in this experimentation we came up with some surprisingly yummy drinks. One I wasn't expecting to like was the Artesheady Punch. Beer doesn't always belong as a mixer, but the Alchemist's famously good Heady Topper out of Waterbury rises to the task. Artesano is a meadery in Groton with a well-honed palate. I've been creating many mixed drinks with the various flavors of their local honey mead.
Artesheady Punch
4 oz. Heady Topper
2 oz. Artesano original mead
1/2 oz. Vermont maple syrup
Mix all ingredients with ice and for an added flare, pour into a glass rimmed with cocoa powder and cinnamon.
Another mead-inspired favorite that I've named the Mt. Mansfield Sunrise is tart, sweet, and refreshing. Or you could stay on the Heady Topper side of things and go with the drink that Helen named Unethical, for how good and easy to drink it is.
Mt. Mansfield Sunrise
3 oz. Artesano cranberry mead
1 oz. Green Mountain Distillers
orange vodka
1/2 oz. Vermont maple syrup
Shake all ingredients with ice and enjoy.
1 can cold Heady Topper
1 oz. Vermont maple syrup
1 oz. Vermont vodka
Stir all ingredients together in a tall beer glass.
Sometimes you just need to go a little crazy and mix in a bit of everything. Fortunately, Vermont is producing a greater and greater variety of spirits, which give us more room for creativity and the ability to create this "everything" drink that I named with geography in mind.
Grand Isle Iced Tea
1 oz. Green Mountain Distillers gin
1 oz. Flag Hill Farm's Pomme De Vie
1 oz. Vermont maple syrup
1 oz. Green Mountain Distillers orange vodka
1 oz. WhistlePig rye whiskey
1 oz. Smugglers' Notch rum cola
Shake all ingredients, except cola, with ice. Pour, with the ice, into a glass and top with cola to taste.
And when the holidays come around again, or whenever your chickens or your neighbor's chickens are happily popping out eggs, I wholeheartedly recommend this eggnog.
Maple Eggnog
8 egg whites, beaten to soft peaks
8 eggs yolks, beaten until light
1 cup Vermont maple syrup
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup bourbon
1/2 cup aged rum
1/4 cup Cointreau or Triple Sec
1 1/4 cup cream
1 3/4 cup milk
Whisk all ingredients together and store in mason jars in the fridge until ready for use, keeping in mind that this mixture includes raw eggs. As the air settles out, the mixture will decrease in volume.
So, imbibe in maple, tipple the tree, and take a little sap behind the bar. This centuries-old local sweetener is primed for your post-Prohibition pleasure.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Coordinators of Penn State's International Center for the Study of Terrorism (ICST) have announced that the program will close on June 30. Program director John Horgan and senior research associate Mia Bloom have announced that they will assume new positions at the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, this summer, where they plan to continue their work.
The ICST, with headquarters in the Department of Psychology at Penn State, was established in 2006 as a collaborative partnership among several international universities to study the social psychology of terrorism and to understand its long-term effects on society. Researchers at the center in the past have secured grants from the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Naval Research and other agencies.
"On behalf of our University community, I would like to thank Dr. Horgan and his colleagues for their important work at Penn State," said Susan Welch, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts. "As we worked through their departure it became clear that the center's efforts no longer matched the strategic directions of relevant departments."
On the center's website, Horgan thanked the Penn State community for its support. "We appreciate the support of the College of the Liberal Arts and the entire Penn State community over the past six years, and wish all our followers, friends and colleagues the very best in their future endeavors."