Gerry McCann

‘Rent a quote’ and the professional mourners.

March 20, 2009

The victim stance is a powerful one. The victim is always morally right, neither responsible nor accountable, and forever entitled to sympathy. In our current secular, celebrity driven culture, the ‘victim’ is not only the person who was stabbed, raped, murdered, but the apparently perpetually grieving, those who can never let go, those who have apparently [...]

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An international campaign……

March 10, 2009

Gerry MCann this afternoon told MPs at the Select Committee on Press Standards, Privacy and Libel that he had wanted an international campaign to help find Madeline, but that she had been treated ‘as a commodity’ by the press. Clarence Mitchell who was also appearing in front of the Committee said that there were ‘profits [...]

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Uncharted waters…….

March 10, 2009

Just off the coast of Free Speech, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lie the Isles of Enforced Government Regulations. These are dangerous waters for the Blogger vessels. One false move and they could find themselves beached on the craggy rocks of new government legislation. Nor is it just these submerged rocks they must navigate; [...]

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British Slag and the Decline of Cole.

March 8, 2009

Ashley Cole needs his right to privacy and threatens the Sun newspaper just before being arrested for using abusive language! The philandering husband of Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has threatened to sue the Sun newspaper for invasion of his privacy if they dare to print photographs of him and the ‘classy’ woman’ he was [...]

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Treachery and Tribal Warfare.

March 6, 2009

Last night Robert Murat, one of the original three arguidos, spoke in a Cambridge University debate and thus fired the first salvo in the sequel to the McCann version of ‘Survivor’. ‘Survivor’ was a ‘reality’ TV show invented in the early 90′s, where contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other [...]

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Gerry McCann to give evidence.

March 5, 2009

The Culture Media and Sport Select Committee is conducting an inquiry into media privacy at the moment. Spies tell me that next Tuesday Gerry McCann will give oral evidence to the Committee in the afternoon. That will be even more interesting than Robert Murat speaking in the debate at Cambridge university tonight. Hat tip to [...]

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Double or quits is ‘crap’……….

February 24, 2009

The Government has said today that it will take measures to limit costs in libel cases “unless compelling arguments emerge against doing so”. When Lord Woolf recommended the Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) as a way to create a system where the courts were open to all regardless of means, he did so with the genuine [...]

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