Monday, July 21, 2008

A couple shafts of light

Every so often there are events which give one a little hope.

Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai shaking hands, having signed an agreement brokered by the SADC, the UN and African Union, is one such event. The fact that it comes on the day the Zimbabwe issued a new 100billion dollar banknote, perhaps might give a clue as to what motivated it. There must be a limit to the amount of time an economy can exist with 2.2 Million per cent inflation without self-combusting. Perhaps it is now apparent that even R Mugabe realises.

I am also encouraged by the fact that the Portuguese police have closed the Maddie McCann "investigation". That might sound peculiar, but here's the logic. Without wishing to lapse too much into blogger's rant-mode, one has to say that the Portuguese police "investigation" of the child's disappearance hasn't exactly been productive. They named as sole suspects three people who are now not suspects and that seems to be sum total of their output. The legendary Oozlum bird achieved more (you know the one - the bird that flew round and round and then eventually flew up its own orifice).

So, one has to hope that now the Portuguese police are not "investigating" the disappearance, there might actually be some progress. This is not as mad as it sounds. Now they have closed the case they will at last do something which, so far they have not (much), due to Portuguese law. They will release all the details of their investigations to the McCanns. The Maddie McCann appeal has reportedly raised well over £1 million. That is sufficient, I would have thought, to fund an extensive investigation (note - no inverted commas for that one) by private investigators, who will now have the benefit of the case notes of the Portuguese police.

We can only hope that something positive comes out of this.

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