Nowhere is this more vividly manifest than with immigration. The thinktank British Future has studied how best to win arguments in favour of immigration and multiculturalism. One of its main findings is that people often respond warmly to qualitative...
How statistics lost their power and why we should fear what comes next 统计数据是如何失去其力量的？为什么我们要担心接下来会发生什么 The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a...
As a separate legal entity, the club accepts no responsibility for the actions of Torbett, McCafferty, King or anyone else. Lawyers pursuing the civil action on behalf of the 21 say they are determined to knock down the defensive wall that the parent...
Last year, Celtic Boys Club's former kit man, Jim McCafferty, 73, pleaded guilty to 12 charges relating to sexual abuse involving 10 boys between 1972 and 1996. Four of his victims played for the Boys Club, and others played for youth teams he ran in...
In October 1996, Jim Torbett was arrested after a series of stories in the Daily Record, the Herald and BBC Scotland exposed his history of sexually abusing young players. He was jailed for two years in 1998 for abusing three young players, including...
Gray didn't speak to anyone about the abuse until he was 40. When he finally opened up, Andy told us that the abuse had started when he was 12, said his sister. He did not go into a great deal of detail, as he was quite reserved, but it appears to ha...
Torbett's time at the Boys Club came to a sudden end in 1974. Much later, after he was exposed as a paedophile, there were reports in the Scottish press that Torbett, by then the general manager of the Boys Club, had been sacked by Jock Stein. But at...
David Gordon was another unlikely recruit to the Celtic Boys Club. Like Woods, he came from a family of Rangers supporters, and his father even watched home matches from the director's box at the mainly Protestant club in Ibrox stadium. He joined Cel...
The incident took place one evening in 1968, when, Woods claims, Torbett took a group of boys to a toyshop on Maryhill Road in the West End of Glasgow. It was called Joe's Toy Shop, and we were taken there on the pretext of labelling mini plastic ver...
Woods says Torbett exercised tremendous power over the boys. He could decide their future as players or rejects a position he cynically exploited. I was frightened to say anything to Torbett because the dream of playing for Celtic was still there, ev...
