Madeleine McCann: voyeurism at the Vatican
On alcohol advice for pregnant women and the latest in the search for 'Our Maddie': read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London).

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Tuesday 29 May 2007:
‘First they came for the pregnant women, and I did not speak out because I was not a pregnant woman…’
Thursday 31 May 2007:
‘Who exactly was meant to benefit from the mass outbreak of voyeurism at the Vatican this week, as the world watched Madeleine McCann’s parents praying with the Pope? (Or as a BBC headline put it, in a Lloyd-George-knew-my-father moment, “Pope meets Madeleine’s parents”) …’
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