Madeleine McCann

Premature Articulation.

January 3, 2011

Illustration from the incomparable Nick Dewar RIP February 2010. We have imported many trends from America; none so misunderstood as the ‘Free Speech’ trumps all other rights. I would hazard a guess that ‘free speech’ is probably the most quoted phrase in the blogosphere. ‘Speech’ is the power of oral communication. Oral. By mouth. Yet [...]

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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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‘Ere we go…….

September 8, 2009

The indigestion suffered after Lord Mandelson has been dinning and whining (sic) with the rich and famous is widespread, and not confined to just those round the table. The latest bout has enveloped the music industry, after Mandelon’s cosy ‘Port-side’ chat with multi-millionaire David Geffen resulted in Mandelson suddenly reversing Government policy and announcing that [...]

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Libertarianism and the Doctrine of Free Speech.

August 18, 2009

Nothing exercises the Libertarian sense of impending moral outrage so much as those two little words ‘Free Speech’. It is said by some to be the very definition of Libertarianism. I consider myself to be a Libertarian; I believe that I possess a free will and that I should be free to do whatever I [...]

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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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Death rattles from the ongoing Colin Port saga…..

June 11, 2009
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John Ozimek in The Register has an exclusive interview today with Jim Bates, the man firmly in the sights of  Operation Ore Ire. I am reproducing it in full here for the benefit of those who won’t be reading the ‘other side’ of the story in their daily newspapers. There are those who say (generally [...]

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There be ‘Ore’ in them thar Irish Hills.

May 21, 2009
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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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