Re: Sir Cliff's home raided...
Political embarrassment is exactly the issue.
Although it seems to me that this article takes a distasteful tone towards homosexuals in places (in addition to its dubious anti-European-Union message), it does some contain valuable information (including a reference to Cliff's dark past).
http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/07/the-blackmailing-of-britain-jimll-fix.html
But this isn't the half of it...
Research Operation Yewtree / celebrity paeds etc a little further and you'll come to the conclusion that (we can't name names for fear of "Wildean" lawsuits) - in terms of unpleasant revelations about influential musicians: the worst, the very worst, is yet to come.
[At least, if and when "it" happens there will be a stay in the current craze for neo-fascist censorship and rewriting of history.
Irrational, paranoid delusional, bizzarely superstitious people are not only arguing successfully for every last trace of Savile, Harris, Glitter etc be expunged from the archives but they are succeeding in making it an imprisonable offence to joke about them or impersonate their vocal / verbal mannerisms (
you don't believe me? Do your research)
But the cultural-revisionist-censorship lobby are going to be faced with an impossible task that just might make them stop and think).