you can do it too, with McCann-do

There's some important stuff going on in the world at the moment. Gordon Brown is proposing some surprisingly right wing-sounding plans (creating British jobs for British people, increasing required levels of English for immigrants etc); the London Olympics logo might be triggering epileptic seizures; Pakistan is busy deporting ex-Prime Ministers... but most importantly, the McCanns are seeking legal action and wish to be left alone.

The media attention surrounding their case has been phenomenal, rivalled only(in my relatively short term memory) by Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells' disappearance in 2002 (and that was only for 3 weeks; perfectly aligned with parliamentary holidays. Well there was nothing else going on, was there?). I'm increasingly angry at all this attention, but verging on furious at how I'm beginning to want to know what's going on. A part of me wants the McCanns to have killed their daughter. Not for sick reasons (I hope) but because it's time the case was closed. Last night there was simultaneous coverage on three different TV channels; excluding Freeview ones!

The parents have remained in the media spotlight since May, and voluntarily so. Now things aren't going their way they would like a bit of privacy. In fairness they didn't really need 3 BBC jeeps following them from the airport back to Leicestershire, did they? What a waste of fuel.

The only good thing to emerge from all this attention was a debate on Jeremy Vine the other day: a Portuguese police representative was on the receiving end of abuse by many callers-in (imagine Cockney accent: "Clearly the parents didn't do it. The Portuguese have been rubbish and lazy. They have to pretend they're doing something and pin it on someone") and got quite riled. Quite entertaining.

Moon. xxx