Much was made during the week about Kate and Gerry McCann being named as arguidos, or official suspects.
Before that, you might recall, the Portuguese police declared a totally innocent man, Robert Murat to be an arguido, on the clever policing insight that he’s separated and has a daughter of his own back in England, and [...]

They’ve arrested the Pope, muttered Gonad the Ballbearian.
What’s that?  I looked up from my escritoire and removed my meerschaum.  The devil you say!
The Pope, he said.  You know.  Busy chap in Rome.  Tall hat, curly slippers.  Former head of the Inquisition.  German chap, if memory serves.
Good God, man, I know who the Pope is.  Who [...]

I wasn’t going to write about this. I just wasn’t because it doesn’t bear thinking about, but in the last few days the whole thing has become insane, and you know what’s really pissing me off? All the self-righteous experts over here, nudging and winking, passing judgement on the McCanns, with absolutely no [...]

I’m not going to say much about this, and I’m certainly not going to join in that new and ugly trend: condemnation of the parents.
I’m horrified by the smug and superior tone some bloggers are taking. It’s easy to talk and it’s easy to condemn, as if any of us has that right, [...]