Missing

With the exception of international football results and outbreaks of foot and mouth the news this week has been dominated by just one story: Did the McCann's do it? The Portuguese police appear to think they did, albeit accidentally, but I'm not quite so sure: Could they really have kept a body hidden for almost a month and then moved it completely unnoticed by the media glare? Why would they have turned the search for a single missing child into an international news story if they'd been responsible all along? There's a lot more to come out of this case, but for now the example of Robert Murat, the previous named arguido, cautions against adopting the infantile logic of no smoke without fire. The best we can all hope for is that the kid turns up safe, and soon.