Here’s what he should do:

1. Hire a very good English-speaking spokesperson. Such professionals’ sevices come very expensive, to be sure, but the book’s profits should be enough to pay for them, even if they have to be supplenented by a fund-raising campaign.

2. Ensure the book is translated first into Spanish, promote it in the Hispanic world, including the Hispanic parts of the USA; then to French, German, Russian, japanese, Chinese and so on; and only then into English. This way he would be able to present his case to a candid world before he presented it to the biased juri of British public opinion.

3. Hire the best possible team of libel lawyers available to him in Britain. Scan everything British media have ever said about him with a view to sue, and sue wherever remotely possible. Be very public and very loud in his demand that the damages paid to him should be the highest in British legal history, based on the excepcional harm done to him (the British media have made “Gonçalo Amaral” practically synonymous with “Hannibal Lecter”).

Speaking for myself, I neither know nor care very much whether the UK is still what the rest of the world calls a democracy. Assuming that it is and wishes to remain so, it really, really should do something about its gutter press.

How can you say that ???

Clearly abandoning a minor is in itself is a form of harm. As it transpired to the disappearence this is beond any question of guilt of neglect. They should be made accountable to this minimum.
Enough poor single parents who have tried to leave there children for less time have had the attention and results of their wrath put upon them. Why should alledgedly clever doctors be immune???

Try this link to find where the others are hanging out

http://www.anorak.co.uk/tabloids/186052.html#comment-347976

When i try to post I get Error4o4.

Could someone please direct me to where you are, it is 8.40 pm here and i am stuick on desktop with Windows 98, plus i only have dial up connection.

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” Ferd
That wasn’t humour.
Seriously.
That was Gerry being a tosser. ”

For me it was a piece of black humour. Not the kind of humour that causes an outburst of laughter though.

That wasn’t humour.

Seriously.

That was Gerry being a tosser.

What do you think of this quotation from the Vanity Fair article (see anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/179232.html ):

And the Madeleine ‘Look into my eyes’ campaign? Says Gerry: “We thought it was possible this could hurt her. Her abductor might do something to her eye. But in marketing terms it was a good ploy”

If this isn’t the humour of the gallows…

Puns?????????????

” Perhaps if G had added little smilies we might have ‘got’ the self mockery, long before now ”

Like the playback laughter in anglo-american comedies, which indicates the puns?

Sorry love, but I think you’re flogging a dead horse with this one.

” Ferd
I was born in Govan. I don’t need a lesson in Glaswegian humour! ”

You may skip my post 413 then.

Agreed, absolutely NO WAY was he being funny, though it makes me wonder whether this might be the pink ones ‘new angle’ to explain the blog.

I was born in Govan. I don’t need a lesson in Glaswegian humour!

He was being genial - not funny.

I think that Glaswegian humour is very similar to New York humour, which is really Jewish humour for it is the humour of despair, the humour of the gallows. The humour of awful circumstances or predicaments. I think that is where humour comes from. From situations where the only way out is to laugh, for survival’s sake. At the bottom of every joke is a piece of despair, you can’t produce a laugh without it. If someone falls on a banana skin you get a laugh, but someone gets hurt.

I forgive them the crime scene thing, because if your daughter is missing, you would of course search the apparment frantically (is she hiding behind the sofa, in the wardrobe etc), and forget about forensics. That’s for the police to ensure.”

But they INSISTED it was an abduction from the start. Not a child hiding behind a sofa, and only coming to a gradual realisation that abduction was a hossible possibility after many hours of looking for a lost daughter.
They INSISTED, and therefore in their own eyes the apartment was a crime scene from the start, which they then let, or caused to be trashed.