I've restrained from commenting (much) on the McCann case, because whatever the truth of the matter, every possible outcome runs the spectrum from awful to tragic.

I blame the Press and by extension the public for this egregious celebrity that surrounds the case. Awareness is one thing, but endless pages of pundit speculation, rumour and innuendo is hardly going to help the girl, and if the sheeple weren't buying copies to tune in on latest developments like a deranged soap opera, then the papers would stop running the articles.

But today, a new barrel-bottom has been scraped as the McCanns release an "artist's impression" of the suspected abductor. Based on the eyewitness testimony of someone who was at dinner with the McCanns and so therefore, by default, nowhere near the scene of the alleged crime when Maddie was abducted, the sketch nevertheless shows the perpetrator carrying off the girl, still in her pyjamas.

A shame that this "significant development" has waited this long before being released, no? I'd have thought that is a friend of mine's girl had been abducted, I'd have thought to mention the fact I saw someone carrying off a small girl from the vicinity of the house a little sooner than 5 months after the event.

What with her mother stating that Maddie "is alive and being held in a house" (yes, we'd love that to be true also, but there's nothing other than wishful thinking to evidentially support it), it reeks less of a genuine clue and more of media press management to try and salvage their reputation from the growing mire of suspicion.

The conveniently anonymous portrait has had several features (including the face) left blank "to ensure accuracy". I'm certain that some will think the sketch devatstatingly accurate, as the suspect in question isn't there.

Speaking of barrels being scraped, oil barrels have come in for a bit of a pounding as BP are fined over £185 million for a multitude of sins. Tellingly, they were fined less for blowing people up in a Texas refinery and polluting Alaska, as they were for fraudulently fixign the price of propane.

And yet, despite so many human climat-change deniers receiving direct funding from oil companies who are endemically corrupt, there's still scepticism over climate change and the resounding lack of will to do anything about it.

Well I guess in the long run it doesn't make any difference anyway. In a few thousand years or so, the only ones arguing about what actually finished off Homo sapiens will be the cockroaches. The Meek will have to share with the more functionally-adapted arthropods in what they inherit.

And speaking of cockroaches, I notice that the final tally for last year's MP's expenses are in. A new record! What a surprise. Up 5% from the previous year to £87.6 million. (if you happen to be in one of the Government's many military engagements worldwide, that is roughly equivalent to 200,458 sets of body armour you won't have been supplied with).

If you think I'm cynical, this pales in comparison to the MP spokesgroup whose job it is to break the news of MP's profligacy with taxpayers' dosh: we're getting "excellent value for money" says LibDem Nick Harvey.

Which is exactly the same trite phrase they have trotted out three years running. Those rat-bastard fucks don't even think we care anymore.