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11th September 2013: The world's gone mad and I'm the only one who knows
13th August 2013: Black is white. Fact. End of.
11th August 2013: Electric cars, not as green as they're painted?
18th June 2013: Wrinklies unite, you have nothing to lose but your walking frames!
17th May 2013: Some actual FACTS about climate change (for a change) from actual scientists ...
10th May 2013: An article about that poison gas, carbon dioxide, and other scientific facts (not) ...
10th May 2013: We need to see past the sex and look at the crimes: is justice being served?
8th May 2013: So, who would you trust to treat your haemorrhoids, Theresa May?
8th May 2013: Why should citizens in the 21st Century fear the law so much?
30th April 2013: What the GOS says today, the rest of the world realises tomorrow ...
30th April 2013: You couldn't make it up, could you? Luckily you don't need to ...
29th April 2013: a vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE, because THE ABOVE are crap ...
28th April 2013: what goes around, comes around?
19th April 2013: everyone's a victim these days ...
10th April 2013: Thatcher is dead; long live Thatcher!
8th April 2013: Poor people are such a nuisance. Just give them loads of money and they'll go away ...
26th March 2013: Censorship is alive and well and coming for you ...
25th March 2013: Just do your job properly, is that too much to ask?
25th March 2013: So, what do you think caused your heterosexuality?
20th March 2013: Feminists - puritans, hypocrites or just plain stupid?
18th March 2013: How Nazi Germany paved the way for modern governance?
13th March 2013: Time we all grew up and lived in the real world ...
12th March 2013: Hindenburg crash mystery solved? - don't you believe it!
6th March 2013: Is this the real GOS?
5th March 2013: All that's wrong with taxes
25th February 2013: The self-seeking MP who is trying to bring Britain down ...
24th February 2013: Why can't newspapers just tell the truth?
22nd February 2013: Trial by jury - a radical proposal
13th February 2013: A little verse for two very old people ...
6th February 2013: It's not us after all, it's worms
6th February 2013: Now here's a powerful argument FOR gay marriage ...
4th February 2013: There's no such thing as equality because we're not all the same ...
28th January 2013: Global Warming isn't over - IT'S HIDING!
25th January 2013: Global Warmers: mad, bad and dangerous to know ...
25th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
19th January 2013: We STILL haven't got our heads straight about gays ...
16th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
11th January 2013: What it's like being English ...
7th January 2013: Bleat, bleat, if it saves the life of just one child ...
7th January 2013: How best to put it? 'Up yours, Argentina'?
7th January 2013: Chucking even more of other people's money around ...
6th January 2013: Chucking other people's money around ...
30th December 2012: The BBC is just crap, basically ...
30th December 2012: We mourn the passing of a genuine Grumpy Old Sod ...
30th December 2012: How an official body sets out to ruin Christmas ...
16th December 2012: Why should we pardon Alan Turing when he did nothing wrong?
15th December 2012: When will social workers face up to their REAL responsibility?
15th December 2012: Unfair trading by a firm in Bognor Regis ...
14th December 2012: Now the company that sells your data is pretending to act as watchdog ...
7th December 2012: There's a war between cars and bikes, apparently, and  most of us never noticed!
26th November 2012: The bottom line - social workers are just plain stupid ...
20th November 2012: So, David Eyke was right all along, then?
15th November 2012: MPs don't mind dishing it out, but when it's them in the firing line ...
14th November 2012: The BBC has a policy, it seems, about which truths it wants to tell ...
12th November 2012: Big Brother, coming to a school near you ...
9th November 2012: Yet another celebrity who thinks, like Jimmy Saville, that he can behave just as he likes because he's famous ...
5th November 2012: Whose roads are they, anyway? After all, we paid for them ...
7th May 2012: How politicians could end droughts at a stroke if they chose ...
6th May 2012: The BBC, still determined to keep us in a fog of ignorance ...
2nd May 2012: A sense of proportion lacking?
24th April 2012: Told you so, told you so, told you so ...
15th April 2012: Aah, sweet ickle polar bears in danger, aah ...
15th April 2012: An open letter to Anglian Water ...
30th March 2012: Now they want to cure us if we don't believe their lies ...
28th February 2012: Just how useful is a degree? Not very.
27th February 2012: ... so many ways to die ...
15th February 2012: DO go to Jamaica because you definitely WON'T get murdered with a machete. Ms Fox says so ...
31st January 2012: We don't make anything any more
27th January 2012: There's always a word for it, they say, and if there isn't we'll invent one
26th January 2012: Literary criticism on GOS? How posh!
12th December 2011: Plain speaking by a scientist about the global warming fraud
9th December 2011: Who trusts scientists? Apart from the BBC, of course?
7th December 2011: All in all, not a good week for British justice ...
9th November 2011: Well what d'you know, the law really IS a bit of an ass ...

 

 
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The GOS makes no apology for writing about this matter for the third time. Norfolk Social Services continue to persecute the Hardingham family and show no sign of remorse, compassion or even common-sense. The law's on their side, it seems, so anything they do must be right - and they're bloody well going to do it, come what may.
 
Just to remind you, Mark and Nicky Hardingham had their three children taken from them because one of them had suspicious fractured bones. The fact is that Brittle Bone Disease runs in Nicky's family, and various relatives have suffered hundreds of fractures over a 60-year period. But because Nicky has not herself been diagnosed with the disease, doctors claim she can't pass it on to her children, so the boy must have been abused. To anyone with an ounce of common-sense this must seem a draconian and blinkered attitude for a supposedly intelligent profession to adopt, and knowing that Nicky's grandmother was free of the disease but still gave birth to an affected child ought to suggest that maybe there's something doctors don't know about this particular ailment …
 
But no. Doctors know what they know and everyone else must be wrong. The Social Services have the power to snatch any child they think might possibly, by an enormous stretch of the most fanciful imagination, be at risk. And the Family Court, shrouded in secrecy and not bound by the normal rules of proof, was happy to ignore the great damage to all three children and smash the family to pieces just to be on the safe side.
 
The three children were sent for adoption. There is no appeal and no redress for the Hardinghams, and the parents not only can't see their children ever again, but they can't legally even remember them by their real names.
 
Nicky then fell pregnant again, and obviously was terrified that Social Services would snatch this child as soon as it was born. The couple fled to Ireland, but Norfolk Social Services contacted their opposite numbers in Ireland who didn't even bother to assess the situation for themselves, but immediately began putting pressure on the unhappy couple. The child was born - a healthy boy who appears to be named "Child D" thanks to the N.S.S. and the Family Court, and the couple have been forced to return to Norfolk.
 
There has of course been a good deal of media coverage of this outrageous case. Now Norfolk have issued gagging orders to the newspapers and the BBC to prevent them from publicising it any further. They say this is because the publicity is preventing them from working with the family, but of course we know better, don't we? If the family is innocent there's no need to "work" with them. So if Norfolk are to maintain their stranglehold and continue their present attitude of arrogant omniscience, it's very important that no-one proves the Hardinghams' innocence.
 
Other members of the family have also had gagging orders served, to prevent them from talking to the press. Norfolk are determined to hush the whole thing up - they know best, and the rest of us don't need to know …
 
However, nobody has served any orders on the GOS, and until they do he's going to keep complaining, because that's what he's for!
 
Please, everyone who reads this, go to this website, and write to your MP, local councillor or anyone else you can think of who may be able to bring some influence to bear. Do also look at this informative article.
 
Our previous rants on this subject are here and here, and you can find out who your MP is and how to contact him/her here.
 
Incidentally, the Director of Norfolk Children's Services is Lisa Christensen. Her address is County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich NR1 2SQ, and her email address is lisa.christensen@norfolk.gov.uk.
 

 
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