Madeleine McCann: A New Book, Danger And A New Investigation
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Live dangerously: it’s so much safer”
We should stop fretting over potential disasters that are unlikely to happen, says a new book. Lisa Jewell reports
A new book:
Author Warwick Cairns enjoys an element of risk in his life and likes to skateboard and mountain bike. So you might expect that his book called How to Live Dangerously advocates taking up sky diving or swimming in shark cages.
Warwick Cairns dictates his book while parasailing outside his local hospital.
But this isn’t the case. In fact, his message is that there are plenty of everyday activities we should all be enjoying without worrying about risks to our safety…
Cairns says it’s understandable how people feel this anxiety when they are constantly being given information about things like terrorism and child abduction.
Here it comes:
“If a child is abducted nowadays, it’s still a rare occurrence but we hear about it a lot. If someone hears about a story such as Madeleine McCann 11 or 12 times in a day, then they feel like it’s happened 11 or 12 times that day.
“The reality of the situation and the perception are at odds with each other.”
It’s really like, nine or ten times a day…
PRESS GAZETTE: “MPs launch major review of legal issues facing the press”
The group will look at the effectiveness of the Press Complaints Commission system following a series of libel payouts to the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann, their holiday friends “The Tapas Seven” and Robert Murat, the British expat named as a suspect by Portuguese police but subsequently cleared.
The committee said it was seeking views on whether the McCann case has exposed “a serious weakness in the self-regulatory regime”, and will ask “what changes news organisations themselves have made in the light of the case”.
Good.
THE GUARDIAN: “Press standards to be investigated by parliamentary select committee”
The inquiry will consider a wide range of issues, including whether successful libel actions against Express Newspapers’ titles and a number of other national papers over the McCann case “indicates a serious weakness with the self-regulatory regime” and whether self-regulation needs to be “toughened to make it more attractive to those seeking redress”.
How the Guardian likes to dig at the Express.
Madeleine McCann: A child is missing… still missing…
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November 25th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
PeterMac , I keep looking back at that story too and it really makes my blood boil, they are truly disgusting, and obviousely still like a good piss up as they were unable to driver themselves as they had taken a taxi , bloody marvellous
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 am
GM’s blog Day 556: 09/11/2008
“Yesterday we went through to Liverpool for a Race Night organised by the Greenhills Taverners Society- a group who organise fundraising events for local good causes- along with family and friends. On this occasion all proceeds were going towards Madeleines Fund.”
¿ How is the disappearance of a little girl whose family live in Leicestershire, and to whom something happened in the far South of Portugal a LOCAL good cause to 200 people in Liverpool ?
(And in English it should be Madeleine’s Fund)
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 am
annie1! Lovely to see you! You are dead right of course.
However - I reckon she should be put in an unbreakable glass case and driven through every shopping centre and every town centre in the UK - so that people could hurl abuse at her and humiliate her for the rest of her life.
No doubt the police would whinge and moanat the cost of keeping the peace - so I say - Get the fucking Army to stand by the glass case - with a couple of machine guns - just in case the crowds get out of control.
No doubt there are still the Do-Gooder people who will say - love the sinner and not the sin - and our society is only as good as the way we treat our criminals - but hey - Fuck them!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 am
Well said Spongebob! But it isn’t support they need. It’s power they should be given. The police have too much - but the people that have to deal with the sh*t before the police get their hands on them have no power at all.
It’s about time that this toilet of a country - stopped all the left-wing philanthropists and anthropologists getting into the upper scores of social work - and got people in who have life-skills and experience of the sub-cultures and the working classes.
Then we might get somewhere. Might!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
Spongebob - you absolutely right - I just heard on the news that the Mother of babyP is to be PROTECTED by the police and put into a safe house!! What in God’s name is going on in the worldd? She should at the very least be done for neglecting the baby - leaving the baby to the mercy of the 2 convicted blokes - but to be protected at great expence to the British Public? never!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:55 am
Please forgive me for duplicaring this one Mods, but you know, it’s important
I have a friend who was a social worker, and a very good one. Because he was good, he had more and more crap piled upon him, and every day he was worrying about making the wrong decision; making a decision that might hurt a child. He eventually found himself a social worker for paedos, and the worst kind, in prison.
He started off being able to switch off from his job and being able to go home to join his family. But, eventually, he could not. There was no support. He was exposed to the worst in society and he had no support. He saved many children from abuse and he had no support.
And when his time came, as it did, he had a nervous breakdown, from which he has never recovered.. I think a personality crumble would be a better description. A man who could debate reasonably on most subjects and could advise on many, (and he advised me on very many) was left to the wolves. A good man.
More support to those who have to support the scum. That’s what we need
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:54 am
Montaillou Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I do wonder whether there was some big covert discussion over rescue attempt for PFI, they must have known by then it was likely to fail ? And £20m had been spent by the time it was chopped, quite a bit on both the private and public sides I guees. Lots of vested interests, lots of need to avoid scandal. It’s the first itme I’ve really believed those from on high might have been seriously invovled, it never made sense to me. Still can’t quite see where Freeport comes in though
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The people ‘on high’ are actually the ultimately very lowest of the low. These people act above the law and are cushioned throughout. This is why we have D notices, press-bans and accusations of libel from various people from time to time.
The problem with this particular case is that we have middle-class professionals who actually aspire to be in these upper echelons - and think that acadaemia is the way through - Which of course it isn’t. In fact - academic achievement is errrrrr …….. very unhealthy in these cases.
No amount of shaking hands and sitting on committees gets anybody into these very private and elitist circles - and neither does all the money in the World either! Ask al Fayed!
The Clan are now fully aware of this
I would still love to know which particular Jock-Strap gave K-Woman the go-ahead to advise the PJ just how the UK Government woulld feel about putting her and G-Man on the suspect list!
Who gave her the bottle to speak to the investigators in this manner? We will soon ahve an idea - but proving it is going to be a bastard. - As with everything else to do with this case.
Just a tip - But note just how few of the elite quacks weren’t around in PDL whilst M was abducted by Aliens.
But as we can see - all the minions were there ………..
……… And the Clan minions were amongst them.
And then when things went awry!
And then the Milk Tray Men come in to do a risk management and a bit of a clean-up - but note who took all the risks!
James Bond would be pissing in his pants at all this. Oh dear! I bet they all wish they had answered the questions appropriately now.
Who pays the Ferry-Man? And can we guarantee that he will get us to the other side?
Errrrrr …… NO!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 am
Night Chenier
Perhaps it should be made a UK case. Good God, is it not time to put it to rest?
Yes, I know many people who have said they they have done similar things as the McCanns, but they are not here. I also know many who think like me and have not and would not.
If it was about just that, then it would be simple. But no, one ‘crime’ means another
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 am
Spomgebob
We have an offence of killing, or allowing to be killed, a child or a vulnerable adult; the defendants in the Baby P trial were convicted of it. English law is a great deal tougher than Portuguese law; perhaps there are lessons to be learned there.
Part of the reason people are unhappy is that Madeleine was a British citizen, entitled to the protection of British laws, and yet no-one is applying those laws to her case.
Another reason is that people object to the McCanns and their PR team assuring the world that British parents leave their kids by themselves to go out for dinner, and that this is perfectly acceptable and responsible behaviour.
To be blunt, we might just as well be arguing about who killed the Prices in the Tower when it comes to hopes of a settled outcome in this case.
And on that happy note I must away; flag wavers’ arm does not permit overmuch typing. Good night, Spongebob…
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
Too much for me Chenier….
Why am I back here again….?
Frankly, I believe, whilst there is some evidence that might be not in the McCanns’s favour, it is not remotely enough to even convict them,
If you want to convict them of not looking after their children, then of course they are guilty. If one guilt leads to another of allowing a crime to take place, then yes, they allowed it.
But one guilt does not lead to killing one’s child, and reading this blog for a year does not convince me of it..granted, I don’t do the conspiracy stuff so much
The Anti stuff is too much.. and, for what it is worth, you have my statement on child protection above.
I just dont see how they DID IT. Que?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Spongebob
I was expressing scepticism that all is revealed in another place…
November 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Chenier
Did you read my other posts?
Noone knows what happened.. Conspiracy is all
As I say to my wee ones when something strange happens.. call the police!
They generally laugh
Or call me silly
November 21st, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Spongebob
Satire is all very well, but the likelihood of ‘telling it like it is’ when we really don’t know what the hell happened is somewhat small…
November 21st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Châtelaine
Well, there’s the 3as. they tell it like it is. I’m sure..
November 21st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Well, I’ve overstayed my 15 minutes. No fight between Montaillou and SpongeB.
Off to the silken sheets in preparation for WEEKEND
Good night, sleep tight.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
SpongeBob Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The difference is, you want to believe them guilty.
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No, I don’t WANT to believe they’re guilty. No way. I want to know what happened. And I am sure “they” have not been telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. There’s something very wrong here. And it needs to be found out.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Of course, the dog alerts are no evidence [imagine them in the witness box in court
], but their reactions are strong [very strong] indications. These come on top of many incoherencies, contradictions, “unusual” behaviour, lots of money-making, etc.
I’s no wonder “we” have been on-line for so long, me thinks.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The difference is, you want to believe them guilty.
Apply shoe. Other foot
November 21st, 2008 at 11:28 pm
When they were at dinner….or before
And again… how?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Unless she “disappeared” earlier than 10:00pm May 3, of course …
November 21st, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Frankly, I coudn’t care less about the Mccanns as individuals,
I don’t sympathise with them leaving their wee ones, and I think they did the checking with less frequency than they said they did, and, I might surmise, they panicked when the shit hit.
But I still dont see how they ‘dun it’. The doggies’ evidence is not enough on its own and the dna doesn’t wash (he he).
Never mind no time for abduction- no time for fuck all else.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
B.t.w. SpongeB, what kind of risotto? Funghi? Salmon? Petites Legumes? Always interested in recipes
November 21st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Better start yawwwnning Chatelaine, I don’t know who he thinks I am.
xx
November 21st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
A fight? A fight? Where, where?
I’ll stay on on for the next 15 minutes until I begin my food-book-dog-sleep-weekend.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Yup sure am
November 21st, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Montaillou
Indeed
Forgive my sins..sobering… hic
I take it you are stripped and ready for a good fight?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Spongebob who needs joy from Rioja when there is patently so much to be had here on a Friday night?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Montaillou
ah but it depends on how much joy is to be had
June
Creamy and just giving. Could you ask for more?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Hi June - Sunday Times are giving two free bottles now, whcih are usually better then their regular run of wine. We sadly don’t have Waitrose or Laithwiate.
Spongebob - too much Rioja with the risotto hmmm? ::-)
November 21st, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I didn’t get any , I never do, but it was the annual Beaujolais run this week…
I use the Sunday Times and Laithwaites, and the wine manager at our local Somerfield used to get me some lovely Barolo, sadly its closed now.
They quite often have medical conventions/golfing parties/ jamborees in Spain and Portugal, usually off season.
Sponge Bob I hope you enjoyed your risotto?