Just when quality control had already slipped to an unprecented low at newspapers in Britain, the Daily Express tears down any remaining barriers and axes 69 sub-editing jobs as a result of cutbacks.

So what can we now expect? More flimsy and unverified news copy? More dishonesty, more sloth? More governments peddling more l ...

Taken from a press release issued by the EU Parliament dated September 3^rd 2008. The press release has thus far remained ignored by the mainstream British Press and the McCanns themselves who have not even managed to mention this special announcement on their swish-looking website. Given their 'tireless' campaigning, ...

One of the active ingredients in Calpol Night is Diphenhydramine.

Diphenhydramine is a type of medicine called a 'sedating antihistamine'. If it enters the brain in sufficient quantities it can cause drowsiness - but it cannot induce sleep.

Diphenhydramine dries nasal secretions, by st ...

Amaral makes a complete arse of himself in the El Mundo interview. Is it really possible to describe Calpol as 'a sleeping solution'? No. It offers a very mild form of pain relief for children who are not old enough to take stronger doses of ibuprofen or paracetemol. To describe it in this way, indicates just how far Amaral is ...

Why don't the McCanns sue Amaral? I have heard it again and again and again.

I don't think the McCanns want to sue Mr Amaral. Why? Because Mr Amaral seems to be doing a very nice job for them as it is. His naive and unrealistic theories proved a timely distraction for what was really going on - and he seems to been more than adequately r ...

Here's something I feel we might be hearing a little bit more about in the future. In fact, some of you might already be more than a little familiar with it: the UK Government's 'Research, Information and Communication Unit (RICU)

It's all about developing 'counter-narratives' - something the 3As and The Mirror Forum are surpris ...

So what was with all those stroies? Real? Imagined? But by whom and for what reasons? The newspapers? Fantasists? The McCann's PR machine or a varierty of different interest groups? There's no doubting the anti-Arab bias of the sightings, nor can we ignore the surprising congruence of sightings taking place in locations central to intelligence o ...

Almost forgot about Control Risks Group, the company consisting of ex-SAS men hired by the couple in late May 2007 and who investigated claims of Madeleine McCann in Morocco.

Contrary to what The Telegraph would have us believe (that the company specialises in  Read in Full  Post/Comments (12)   Archive   Print

A 2004 survey of Moroccans reported that 8% had a ‘favourable’ or ‘very favourable’ image of President Bush, but the comparable figure for bin laden was 45%

So what turns the otherwise moderate and reasonable North African into such a restless, divided creature? The Palestine issue. These people have little displeasure with e ...

Paulo Reis writes that on January 2008, 'according to the investigation files from the DVD given to journalists, the PJ detective Ricardo Paiva received a dossier from British police and sent it to Paulo Rebelo, the head of the investigation of Madeleine's disappearance, with an internal communication'.

The journalist goes onto ...