Let sleeping hound dogs lie
Elvis and Amy, Maddie and Amber Alerts - read Mick Hume's columns from The Times (London).
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Tuesday 14 August:
‘Nobody should blame Madeleine McCann’s parents for doing whatever they can to keep publicising their missing daughter’s case. But sympathy should not mean we have to support their latest demands for more child protection laws, based on the suspect US “Amber Alert” system…’
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