Madeleine McCann

Abuse of Process.

May 25, 2010

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 comforting thoughts of the innocent few days we had spent at Oléron . I refer, of course, to the stupendously misjudged prosecution of two children for the technical attempted rape [...]

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McCluedo – a Righteous game for all the family.

May 12, 2010

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 related to them. Not Madeleine though, for she, unwittingly, belongs to all of us. She had no say in her celebrity. It [...]

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Joining the dots…

April 16, 2010

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 Cambridgeshire. Possibly, no probably, no, emphatically, not a name that would be instantly familiar to you – unless you had taken [...]

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Fairy Tales and Spin-Meisters.

April 3, 2010

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 to market place, alternately educating, advising, and passing on gossip. Around the beginning of the 19th C, the role of story teller changed [...]

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Paedophilia Double Standards

February 26, 2010

A paedophile who repeatedly raped an eleven year old child was today described by the main steam media as having ‘had a fling‘ with the child. The url leading to the story describes the rapes as ‘romps’. Items given to the child were described as a ‘reward’. In other media outlets, the repeated rape is [...]

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Robert Green

February 17, 2010

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 a Scottish legal conspiracy? Grist to the blogosphere mill. A little digging reveals more froth on this [...]

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Judicial Lunacy.

February 5, 2010

This is Robert Aistrop. Robert Archibald Aistrop, to be precise. Take a good look, you weren’t supposed to see what he looked like. You need to know what he looks like, especially if you have a daughter, a young daughter, somewhere in the age range of say, four years old to eight years old. Robert [...]

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