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Think tank slams paedophile paranoia culture.

An independent think tank has today blamed the government's increasing reliance on "anti-paedophile" criminal record checks for making UK adults scared to have any contact with other people's children.

Finally . Let's hope we slowly swing back towards some common sense on the issue. Still, at least the idea that anyone could bugger your children senseless and kill them is at least a progression from the prejudice that said that it was only something gay men did, I remember a few of my friends who said that they took extreme care not to be in any situation with children because they didn't want to open themselves up to the hysteria.

And we all remember the days of the Paedofinder General.

Labels: Government, hysterias, paedophiles

Kids supposedly worried about being kidnapped like Madeleine McCann says The Sun. The best thing is the picture that accompanies the story, of a 'concerned child'.

Labels: hysterias, News International, newspapers, The Sun

I'm writing this in the faint hope that whoever took Madeleine McCann is reading this blog. If you're The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and you took her, could you hurry up and dump her body where someone can find it? Now that the whole Blair/Brown thing has passed the nation's media has become fixated and it's utterly revolting. The Mirror or the Mail shot it's load too soon by trying earlier in the week to suggest it was the parents fault their daughter was kidnapped but the longer we go on without any real news the more the country will let itself get wound up until families are claiming they've had Madeleine appear to them in visions and cure their granny's colic, or some fucking artist desperate to make a name for themselves will make a life-sized model of her out of dog excrement. That one missing child gets more airtime than continued official attempts to restrict our freedom is just wrong.

Oh yeah, blah blah, hope they find her alive, blah blah, not too emotionally scarred by the experience, blah blah either way Mum will be in OK! magazine by the end of the year.

Labels: children, hysterias, newspapers, paedophiles

Diana Tributes at the Gates of Kensington Palace
Originally uploaded by Loz Flowers.

I suppose idiocy doesn't have a 'use by' date, but nine years for fuck's sake. Murderors get less time inside. And that poster in the middle for 'dianaspeaks'? Turns out that Princess Di has more to tell the world than she ever said when she still had her own vocal chords so makes use of an intermediary called Andrew Russell. Still, looking at the gates of Kensington Palace makes it clear exactly who is still reading the Daily Express these days.

Labels: British Royal Family, Diana Spencer, hysterias