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Gerry McCann

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of Maddie-ness,

June 20, 2009

Photograph of Gerry McCann – June 16th 2007 . Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. G.K. CHESTERTON, “On the Classics,” Selected Essays ________________________________________________________________________ The parallel worlds of the McCann’s private investigation to prove that anybody, other than themselves, was culpable in the disappearance of their daughter, [...]

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There be ‘Ore’ in them thar Irish Hills.

May 21, 2009

They say if you stand still in Piccadilly Circus for long enough, eventually everyone in the world will pass by. Rummaging in the murky depths of ‘Operation Ore’ is beginning to acquire the same quality. I wrote on Tuesday of the Chief Constable who was preparing to defy the writ of the High Court in [...]

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The McCann Documentary.

May 8, 2009

More from the McCann’s – the family that craves privacy from the media, and finds themselves unable to return to Portugal for the Police reconstruction – this is the reconstruction that they ‘approved’ of – as made by themselves and supervised by their media representative. The trial by internet continues…… Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]

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Watching the Defectives.

May 2, 2009

In May 2007, along with several thousand other people, I was invited to join in the search for young Madeleine McCann. The past two years has been an extraordinary journey, largely conducted on-line, with the occasional physical foray to Prai da Luz. I have learnt a great deal, of human beings, and human responses, to [...]

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McBride, McCann, McSpin and McSmear

April 16, 2009

There has long been speculation regarding the high level of support the McCanns received from within the government when their daughter Madeleine disappeared. It has been defended as ‘normal government support’ for a family in distress – but was it government support or Labour Party support? The recent revelations of a high level ‘dirty tricks campaign’ [...]

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Gonçalo Amaral’s Documentary

April 11, 2009

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Responsible Reportage, Myths and Mythology.

April 7, 2009

Ben Goldacre drew my attention to several articles on the responsibility the media must take for increasing aberrant behaviour by their very reporting of it. He was talking in particular of suicide, following the death of Sylvia Platt’s son. Details matter, as ever. Overdoses increased by 17% in the week after a prominent overdose on [...]

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