For the most part, the police do a terrific job in difficult and trying circumstances.
Yet sometimes they get the bit between their teeth and won't let go. Such a case was that of Colin Stagg who did not murder Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common. After their disgusting honeytrap failed, they still pressed on with their belief he was guilty. When he was acquitted they blithely announced that they were not looking for anyone else - police speak for "We know he did it but that stupid court system blew it."
And lo and behold - a bit more detective work and the real killer is revealed.
Now the same things is happening with Barry George. One of the investigating police tells the News of the World today, "I HAVE to accept the result of the retrial—but I agreed with the first jury's verdict. We carried out a thorough investigation and eliminated all suspects apart from one—Barry George."
Give it up, he didn't do it.
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Another waste of space...
Looking at a medical website recently it referred to a "midwife, health visitor, or breastfeeding counsellor".
Breastfeeding counsellor??
How on earth did we ever manage without all these interfering busybodies?
Breastfeeding counsellor??
How on earth did we ever manage without all these interfering busybodies?
Monday, 28 July 2008
A cheesy tale...
Yesterday, the Sunday Mirror ran a story about Dairylea downsizing its cream cheese triangles (from 22.5g (that's 0.79 ounces to those of us who use British measures) to 22g (0.7 ounces) rather than putting the price up.
A spokesman that Dairylea was "just harmonising triangle weights across the range".
Hmm, strange that no one ever "harmonises" up, isn't it?
A spokesman that Dairylea was "just harmonising triangle weights across the range".
Hmm, strange that no one ever "harmonises" up, isn't it?
Friday, 25 July 2008
Save the privacy fights for genuine cases...
Yesterday Max Mosley won his privacy fight against the News of the World who revealed his spanking orgies.
I didn't read the original tales at the time and still haven't read them. I had no idea who Mr Mosley was.
Naturally, the News of the World was annoyed at losing the high profile and its sister paper The Sun has come out in its favour. In its leader column today The Sun bemoans the loss as a blow to freedom. It says, "Mr Justice Eady said our sister paper the News of the World had no right to tell its readers that the internationally famous head of Formula 1, Max Mosley had been at an orgy which the paper sincerely believed had a Nazi theme".
This is stretching matters slightly. The paper has about 3 million sales - I would be willing to bet that 2.99 million of the buyers had never heard of the "internationally famous... Max Mosley".
Mr Mosley is not famous and what he gets up to in private is no one's business but his own - and his wife and children.
And if the orgy had Nazi overtones, so what? If Mr Mosley's father had not been who he was, there would have been no mention of Nazism.
I didn't read the original tales at the time and still haven't read them. I had no idea who Mr Mosley was.
Naturally, the News of the World was annoyed at losing the high profile and its sister paper The Sun has come out in its favour. In its leader column today The Sun bemoans the loss as a blow to freedom. It says, "Mr Justice Eady said our sister paper the News of the World had no right to tell its readers that the internationally famous head of Formula 1, Max Mosley had been at an orgy which the paper sincerely believed had a Nazi theme".
This is stretching matters slightly. The paper has about 3 million sales - I would be willing to bet that 2.99 million of the buyers had never heard of the "internationally famous... Max Mosley".
Mr Mosley is not famous and what he gets up to in private is no one's business but his own - and his wife and children.
And if the orgy had Nazi overtones, so what? If Mr Mosley's father had not been who he was, there would have been no mention of Nazism.
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Writes and wrongs of Jordan's books
Yesterday, Jordan admitted that she doesn't write her own books. I thought everyone knew that - look at the copyright page of them and it mentions the name of Rebecca Farnsworth, the ghost.
A few weeks ago, I was on a train to Fenchurch Street and sitting near me were four middle-class girls. One of them said that she had read Jordan's latest and was surprised it was good. I wondered then why she was surprised - the book was written by a professional author after all... as indeed are the majority of celebrity books.
A few weeks ago, I was on a train to Fenchurch Street and sitting near me were four middle-class girls. One of them said that she had read Jordan's latest and was surprised it was good. I wondered then why she was surprised - the book was written by a professional author after all... as indeed are the majority of celebrity books.
Friday, 18 July 2008
Mrs O takes umbrage...again
The ghastly Sharon Osbourne has exchanged a series of emails with comedian Jim Jeffries who called her daughter Kelly fat.
Perhaps it hit home harder than normal because recent pictures of Kelly without make-up show that she looks - unsurprisingly - just like her mum before all the plastic surgery.
Perhaps it hit home harder than normal because recent pictures of Kelly without make-up show that she looks - unsurprisingly - just like her mum before all the plastic surgery.
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Celebrity Spotting 3
Who should I share a lift with this morning at the Elephant and Castle tube station - completely unrecognised by everyone except me - but Lord Lawson, Mrs Thatcher's former chancellor.
One of the most powerful and influential men in Britain not that long ago... now reduced to sharing a lift with me.
One of the most powerful and influential men in Britain not that long ago... now reduced to sharing a lift with me.
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