As you will probably know, little Madeleine McCann disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment six months ago. Since then, there have been several sightings of little girls who match Madeleine's description, a number of them from Morocco.
Sadly, the quality of these pictures has not been of the highest and determining details has been problematic. This is where you -- the readers of this blog -- can help.
Please, scrutinize this picture of a marketplace in Morocco and help to identify Madeleine:
Are you struggling to do this? Yes?Then perhaps you might want to check out this version for a clearer image.
Perhaps that's unfair. After all, it's been six months, and a child can change a lot in that time.
We've commissioned an artist's impression of how Madeleine looks now, which you can see here.
I mean. Please. Seriously. How fucking stupid do you think I am?
Snatched by a passing paedophile? How about gypsies, then? The Child Catcher? Are we living in a world where Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is real?
This story is a complete fabrication with the active encouragement, perhaps even at the instigation of the British tabloid press, and it's a fucking disgrace.
These people build their financial success on engendering a state of fear for us all to live in, a world where predatory paedophiles roam every street, lying in wait outside the school gates ready to pounce upon the children unless Mummy and Daddy run them to the school gates in their petrol-guzzling SUVs.
You bunch of scare-mongering bastards. Do you know what you've done?
You've ruined childhood. You've terrified the nation's parents to the point where they won't let their kids out of their sight. They won't let them play any more. Keep 'em at home, upstairs in their bedroom, bashing away at the buttons on their XBox controller ...
OK, so they won't develop any imagination, they won't develop social skills through interacting with other kids, but at least they'll be safe, right? Safe from a threat that only exists in the minds of the headline writers of tabloid papers. Seriously.
Any parent should know that their child is in more danger of being impaled by an icicle of frozen urine that has fallen from a passing plane than of being snatched from the street by a randomly passing kiddy-fiddler.
Lighten up. Let the poor little bastards be kids for once.
