Review:
Operation Violet Oak
by Stephen Glascoe and
The Dossier
by Michael O’Brien From Planet 247

Planet 246

Tony O’Shaughnessy
reviews
Operation Violet Oak
by Stephen Glascoe and
The Dossier
by Michael O’Brien

by Stephen Glascoe

Seren, £9.99

Life can change very quickly. In June 2016 retired Cardiff GP Stephen Glascoe is on a city break in Vienna with his wife. He comes home to a country that has voted to leave the EU – and, more worryingly, the ‘powerful, bony hand’ of a police officer on his shoulder at Bristol airport. He is accused of historical child abuse: alleged offences dating from the late 1980s and 1990s. Brexit suddenly doesn’t seem like such a big deal.

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About the author

Tony O’Shaughnessy lectures in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University. He trained as a print journalist before working in BBC News and Current Affairs as a producer and programme editor.