I have often pondered why the cliché is ‘descending into madness’ – given the number of people who end up firmly believing that they are the son of the Man upstairs, and spend the rest of their life with
Continue reading →On Ascending to Insanity and Shrimpton Fishing.
The Greedier Media.
As we speed through the brave new world of social media, disasters splatter against our windscreen like so many mosquitoes. We can ignore some of them, look past them, wipe away others – but eventually, we must stop,
Continue reading →Savile, Yewtree, and the true victims of child abuse.
The picture editors were busy yesterday. The winsome portrayals of Madeleine McCann, once the picture of choice if the word paedophilia was to be mentioned in the media, were passed over. The aging shots of Jimmy Savile dusted down again, a
Continue reading →Tony Bennett and the McCann’s.
A retired solicitor who published claims that Madeleine McCann’s parents caused her death has been given a suspended jail sentence.
Mr Justice Tugendhat said 65-year-old Tony Bennett deliberately flouted legal undertakings, given in November
Continue reading →The Star of the Libel Courts.
The cyber vigilante paedo-mob, charging across the Twitterscape with flaming torches held aloft, ever alert for the naming and shaming of a fresh celebrity (preferably celebrated for right wing political affiliations) were temporarily baffled by the early morning on-line version of the Daily
Continue reading →Premature Articulation yet again.
50 odd years ago, Frank and Chick Plant were laying out the pineapple squares and fish paste sandwiches in preparation for a grand party. They lived in the idyllic property illustrated. It was bought in extraordinary circumstances
Continue reading →***Exclusive*** Paedophilia and Bizarre Uses for Parliament.
It is easy to wonder ‘What is the purpose of Parliament’ these days, when all they seem to do is conduct a childish haranguing match over the dispatch box. John Hemming MP has today reminded us that the whole
Continue reading →Leveson Schmeveson, it’s a waste of time and money…
The media will never change, not so long as the dual pressures of vanishing advertising revenues and 24 hour rolling news schedules to fill are in place. Leveson can invite as many ex-Prime Ministers and newspaper editors as he
Continue reading →Religious Fervour is Maddie-ness.
Just an opinion of what Madeleine looks like now, to go with all the opinions of where she is.
Buried in the
Continue reading →News of the World Disinterred
Is there any reputation so putrid, so tarnished, that it cannot be further damaged? Gordon Brown excepted, I suspect not.
A boulder has been pushed away from the cave into which the poor old News of
Continue reading →Hyperventilating Over Paedophilia
Paedophilia is an emotive subject; banned in ‘polite’ media circles, it has become virtually the exclusive province of the Blogosphere.
Every day – as Matt Wardman discovered when he took over
Continue reading →‘Dead Children are made of Gold’
This is the third piece I have written for this blog. It is the second concerning dead children. I hope and trust this is no reflection of my own interests, regrettably however
Continue reading →On Internet Anonymity and Snake Oil Salesmen.
Over 100 years ago, the Rev. LaFayette Moore, a Baptist minister, gave up parish work and entered the business world with a pill cutter and gelatin coating machine. He rented
Continue reading →Midwinter Maddie-ness.
Just a few short days ago, Madeleine McCann’s twin brother and sister celebrated their sixth birthday. They are probably reading by now, although not yet old enough to play ‘research the family history’ on Google –
Continue reading →The ‘infallible’ sniffer dogs….
Cadaver dogs perform a grim but essential task – locating the presence of human remains, even minute particles of human remains. In America, the cadaver dogs first achieved national recognition in the aftermath of 9/11,
Continue reading →Intimidation and Coercion.
This afternoon Sandra Barr published an ‘Important Press Release’ from Robert Green to his Facebook group members.
As with so much of the information which emanates from Robert Green, a kernel of half truths have been
Continue reading →Robert Green – Hollie Greig
I apologise for the length of this piece. There are a lot of facts to be laid out.
I would also ask before you tell me that I have left this or that fact out that you refer
Continue reading →Abuse of Process.
I was so enraged by this case yesterday that my mind shut down. It literally would not countenance covering the subject and retreated instead into
Continue reading →McCluedo – a Righteous game for all the family.
Madeleine McCann would be seven years old today. All across Britain there are other little girls celebrating their seventh birthday – and it is a matter of supreme indifference to all except those
Continue reading →Joining the dots…
Good Lord – there are some interesting candidates standing for election in the Cambridge area alongside Old Holborn.
One who particularly raised my eyebrows is Helene Davies-Green who is standing for UKIP in South
Continue reading →Fairy Tales and Spin-Meisters.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time, we relied on the story teller for both news and education; we called him a troubadour. He travelled from market place
Continue reading →Paedophilia Double Standards
Robert Green
A frisson of excitement ran through the blogosphere late last night as news of Robert Green’s arrest in Aberdeen spread.
The facts as they first appeared seemed electrifying, a legal advisor prevented from going about his business by
Continue reading →Judicial Lunacy.
You need to know what he looks like, especially if
Continue reading →Her Majesty’s Blog Referees…..
Britain’s intelligence services raised the threat level of a terrorist attack from ’substantial’ to ’severe’ last week, meaning an attack was considered to be ‘highly likely’ – despite the Home Secretary saying
Continue reading →In the Shade of The Sun
The Final Curtain.
Those of you who know me well, will be aware that I have not been well in recent months.
Thanks to the excellent French medical service, which is second to none, I have undergone a battery
Continue reading →Lest we forget…..
The Algarve summer is over, and rather abruptly so.
On Sunday, I was at the beach, enjoying the final days of warm and dry bliss of this long summer of ’09.
Continue reading →Holy Shit! – Semantics with the Holy See.
The Queen has invited the Pope to ‘tea’ – “more tea Pope”? – next year at Buckingham Palace. According to The Catholic Herald, the Queen has “grown increasingly sympathetic” to the Catholic
Continue reading →The Forum Furies.
Orestes pursued by the Furies by Adolphe-William Bouguereau
In the Eumenides there is a passage redolent of the current trend for avenging ‘wrongs’ that are perceived not to
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