Let sleeping hound dogs lie

Elvis and Amy, Maddie and Amber Alerts - read Mick Hume's columns from The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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Topics Politics

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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…’

Read on…

Friday 17 August:

‘Maybe the nutters who insist that “Elvis lives!” were right all along. To judge by this week’s Presley fest, he has never been a more living legend. How can they mourn him if they won’t let him die?…’

Read on…

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