"Britain is suffering a shortage of home grown clowns"

Not from where I'm sitting she ain't.

Committee chairman (Home affairs Committee) Keith Vaz asked if there was any demand at all for "British clowns for British circuses".

Apart from one or two, in no particular order.

A Superb Piece Of Writing

I thoroughly recommend it.

Matthew Oldfield: “It’s just we are sort of fairly similar...we’re sort of from the same background, we have similar issues about child rearing, which is why we sort of get on.”

Matthew Oldfield, despite the anger that could overtake him at their collective fate, was one of the more laid-back members of the group. Not querulous, like Russell O’Brien, who typically spent some hours of his UK police interview making nit-picking and sometimes self-serving corrections to his statement, Oldfield described himself as “somewhere between” the fumbling David Payne and the thoroughly driven motormouth Glaswegian Gerry McCann. Tall and fit, greying, conventionally good looking, the granite face, without a sensual feature to it, speaks of a certain decency, strength and determination in the eyes and mouth as well as a sense of modesty. The latter might well have contributed to the swelling discomfort manifest on the High Court steps: Matthew Oldfield, in contrast to his wife, doesn’t like being the centre of attention.

Not only does Rachael Oldfield look a great deal more comfortable in the limelight than her partner.............more.

The author has penned four other articles on his blog, all worthy and all extremely readable, read chronologically or as stand alone, it matters not.

h/t "Whatever"

To Serve And Protect

Maddie: Satellites and Espionage

by Paulo Sargento

Duarte Levy has published an article in ‘24Horas’ newspaper, on Monday the 23rd of February 2009, that many unsuspecting readers might think was a Carnival joke. But anyone who knows journalist Duarte Levy knows that, both in the ‘blogshpere’ and in the more traditional press, he is not a man to hide behind masks. Actually, that’s the very reason why, showing his face throughout the high quality investigation that he carries out, he has experienced a few misfortunes, just like Paulo Reis, Gonçalo Amaral, Hernâni Carvalho and others who, if it wasn’t for the excessive amount of events, on the same “targets”, and within particular time circumstances, one might state that these gentlemen share the common fact that… “they’re very unlucky”. Within less than 2 years, these men have experienced more flat tires, car hits, unjustified detentions, persecutions, computer hackings, cowardly dog assassinations, phone threats, computer viruses, anonymous letters, forbidden document translations, thefts, robberies, meetings with mediums and threats to their physical integrity, than they had suffered in their entire lives. more Joana Morais.

Not Quite An Update

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Friday, October 26, 2007
Criminal Profiling Topic of the Day: Who Should be the Suspects in the McCann Case?
MY PRESENT TAKE ON THE MCCANN CASE

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Statement analysis: what do suspects' words really reveal?
Special Agent Susan H. Adams, M.A. teaches statement analysis as part of interviewing and interrogation courses at the FBI Academy.
Copyright 1996 Federal Bureau of Investigation

Two articles on the same page, one an opinion piece the other an insight into statement analysis, both worthy of a read.

h/t NHS Mccans abuse

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You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. (Fr)
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Seeing as Freeport is topical and finally getting the airing it deserves I thought I would post a couple of old graphics that have never seen the light of day before.

The "Mayor Goncalo" set? well I would have to admit they are a result of a recent bit of doodling or whatever it's electronic equivalent be called.

Good luck in your quest old lad, I wish you well. Sorry about decking you out in English Mayoral robes, Lord Mayor of London even in a couple of them, but I'm sure you would grant me a bit of artistic licence, yes?

And the last two? they're just too easy to ignore.

Peace, Himself