The paedophile panic has more than a hint of homophobia to it

Harvey Proctor has done us all a favour. His press conference last week about the hysterical allegations being made against him by ‘Nick’ (an anonymous bloke) and the paedo-obsessed police has helped expose the medieval madness of the post-Savile paedophile panic.

Proctor has been accused of torturing and murdering boys at wild Westminster sex parties that were also frequented by Edward Heath and Leon Brittan. If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. From stories about Jews sacrificing Christian kids and drinking their blood, to that great unhinged moment in the 1980s when working-class families were torn apart by social workers and feminists who believed they were capable of sacrificing animals, raping their children and, in the words of Beatrix Campbell, ‘shitt[ing] on silver trays and mak[ing] the children eat it’, baseless whispers about the ritualistic murder of kids often appear during moments of social madness. And Britain is truly experiencing a moment of social madness.