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  • Enough Is Enough – The Madeleine McCann Case, Its Unspoken Secrets & Why Operation Grange Needs To End Now

    Enough Is Enough – The Madeleine McCann Case, Its Unspoken Secrets & Why Operation Grange Needs To End Now

    Jane Monckton suggests enough is enough and argues it is time to close the investigation into the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann; focus funding instead on other missing people who can more likely be found

    The Madeleine McCann case has been a fixture in public consciousness for 17 years. As a three-year-old who vanished from a Portuguese holiday resort on 3rd May 2007, Madeleine became a symbol of hope, horror, and heartache for a family – and a mystery for a global audience.

     

    However, after years of an investigation riddled with dead ends, millions in public funding, and a recent disappointment in the acquittal of suspect Christian Brueckner in other totally unconnected cases, many are asking the same question: Why does this case continue? Who holds the real answers? And, is there anyone out there who actually knows what happened?

     

    A costly obsession – Millions spent, few results

    Since her disappearance, the hunt for Madeleine has become one of the longest-running – and shockingly costliest – missing persons investigations in modern history. In the UK alone, an estimated £14 million has been spent by the British government on Operation Grange, the inquiry dedicated exclusively to finding her. And what has this unprecedented spending achieved? Precious little, if anyone were actually honest.

     

    The latest in a long line of “persons of interest,” German national Christian Brueckner, was initially paraded as a suspect by authorities. For years, he was presented as the ultimate suspect, with tantalising hints from investigators that finally, an answer was within reach. Yet, Brueckner was acquitted in another unconnected set of cases, and the public, once again, was left with the bitter aftertaste of a dead end lead. It begs the question: how much longer should this cycle of build-up and disappointment go on?

     

    Red herrings and endless questions – Who knows the truth?

    As the Brueckner debacle shows, the investigation has been marred by high-profile suspects who, in the end, turn out to be red herrings. Time after time, public interest is reignited with suggestions of “new leads,” only for hopes to be dashed. One can’t help but wonder: how many people out there actually know the truth? There must be individuals, witnesses, or former suspects who have held pieces of information for years – information that could bring the truth to light. Yet the silence remains deafening.

     

    For instance, many people still believe that multiple individuals connected to Praia da Luz on that fateful night might hold valuable insights. The complex network of witnesses, staff, and even other guests at the resort has never fully been disclosed, creating an air of secrecy. Why hasn’t this circle been fully investigated? Are there people shielding each other, protecting reputations, or perhaps even benefiting from the ambiguity? How many know the truth, and why hasn’t it come out?

     

    A media frenzy turned financial drain

    The McCann case has also become a staple of tabloid speculation, with sensationalism often driving the narrative. This has led to endless news cycles, yet almost no new information. We hear about a “breakthrough” only for it to turn out to be irrelevant, as in the case of Brueckner. In the meantime, the families and friends who might genuinely be connected to the case but entirely innocent are hounded by the media and given no peace.

     

    But beyond the voyeurism, there’s a real human cost here, as well. Imagine being a relative of the McCann family, constantly reliving the tragedy in the public eye. Or imagine being a potential witness or informant, wanting to come forward but stifled by the sensationalism. This relentless churn of media attention has not only stymied progress but has also created an environment where justice seems increasingly unlikely.

     

    Has the McCann investigation become a money pit?

    For those watching from the outside, it’s hard not to notice the amount of public funding channelled into the Madeleine McCann case. When Operation Grange was launched in 2011, the British government was already under pressure to solve the case once and for all. Yet, here we are, over a decade later, with little more than speculation, conjecture, and dead-end leads to show for it.

     

    To put things in perspective, most missing person cases do not receive this level of financial support, let alone an ongoing operation involving a team of detectives exclusively dedicated to one case. This extensive use of resources raises uncomfortable questions. At what point does this pursuit, as heartbreaking as it may be, become a fruitless money pit? What are the limits of such an investigation, and who determines when enough is enough?

     

    Christian Brueckner – The latest in a line of failed leads

    Christian Brueckner, a convicted criminal in Germany, was publicly labelled as a major suspect, with authorities insinuating that the case’s resolution was closer than ever. For months, the public followed the hints and statements, believing this might be the moment of closure. And yet, with Brueckner’s recent acquittal in Germany in a separate set of cases, the Madeleine McCann case seems as lost as it did in 2007.

     

    If Brueckner was, indeed, a red herring from day one – as many experts now believe – then why was he pursued so doggedly? Why was so much time and money invested in yet another dead-end? This latest misstep is emblematic of a larger issue within the investigation: a pattern of misdirection, fuelled by sensationalism, that leads nowhere. This mismanagement not only wastes resources but chips away at public faith in the investigation itself.

     

    The human toll on the McCann family (and the public)

    For the McCanns, the reality is one of endless agony and frustration. Kate and Gerry McCann, who once inspired global sympathy, are now met with mixed reactions, often due to the perception that the case has overshadowed other equally tragic disappearances. In many ways, the prolonged investigation has become a burden not only to them but also to the public, who are forced to confront the unsettling realization that justice may never come.

     

    Every failed lead, every dead-end, only exacerbates the sense of helplessness and frustration. It’s no longer just about finding Madeleine; it’s about finding peace and closure for everyone involved. When millions are spent, and years are lost, the cost is emotional as much as it is financial.

     

    Time for a conclusion – Is there a line between hope and reality?

    While hope is a powerful thing, there’s a line between hopeful pursuit and futile obsession. The resources poured into the Madeleine McCann case could have been allocated to other families seeking justice, to other unsolved cases that lack this level of media attention and public funding.

     

    If this investigation continues, should it be with a cap on resources? Should it be shifted to a lower priority? Should there be a different approach entirely – one that finally gives closure rather than more questions? These are uncomfortable questions, but they are necessary ones. It is, perhaps, time to consider the ethical limits of an investigation like this and the price we are willing to pay for an answer that may never come.

     

    Who will end the silence?

    The most pressing question of all remains: who knows the truth? With so many suspects, witnesses, and “people of interest” connected to Praia da Luz, it’s difficult to believe that no one holds a piece of this puzzle. Someone, somewhere, knows more than they’re sharing. But as years pass, the possibility of anyone coming forward diminishes. Whether out of fear, protection, or complicity, the truth remains hidden.

     

    The question is whether the investigation’s resources might be better spent encouraging those with critical information to come forward. Perhaps a shift in focus from pursuing elusive suspects to encouraging testimony might be what’s needed now. Without genuine answers, the cycle of disappointment and dead-end leads will only continue.

     

    Enough is enough – An end in sight?

    For over 15 years, the world has watched the Madeleine McCann case spiral into a costly, complicated quagmire. Every new suspect, every promising lead, seems to end the same way—nowhere. The recent acquittal of Christian Brueckner in a separate set of unconnected cases underscores the painful truth: Despite the millions spent and years lost, we’re no closer to finding Madeleine than we were on that fateful night in 2007.

     

    The time has come for a sober reassessment; not only of the investigation itself but of the resources and public interest invested in a case that has seen far more support than most.

     

    The McCann family deserve closure, as do the many families whose missing loved ones will never receive this level of attention or funding. It is time for an honest reckoning, one that prioritises the truth over sensationalism, closure over endless searching for a child many believe will never be found. The world may never fully understand what happened to Madeleine McCann, but we can, at the very least, decide when to let this chapter close. 

     

    Jane Monckton has worked for ‘The Steeple Times’ since its inception in 2012. She has followed the Madeleine McCann case with interest and has come to be outraged that resources allocated to Operation Grange are not reallocated to help find missing people who she believes can actually be found. Follow her on Twitter at @Jane_Monckton.

     

    Editor’s note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples and watch his shows on YouTube at @mjs2781/streams.

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    A warped sense of priorities… Madeleine McCann on a tennis court prior to her ‘disappearance’ in May 2007 and her parents out running near the resort she ‘disappeared’ in the days after her ‘disappearance.’
    A warped sense of priorities… Madeleine McCann on a tennis court prior to her ‘disappearance’ in May 2007 and her parents out running near the resort she ‘disappeared’ in the days after her ‘disappearance.’
    Living-it-up… Gerry McCann enjoying a round of golf (left); Kate McCann at Downing Street, London hobnobbing with Missing People CEO Martin Houghton-Brown, the Duchess of Gloucester and the then Home Secretary Theresa May on 23rd May 2012 (right).
    Living-it-up… Gerry McCann enjoying a round of golf (left); Kate McCann at Downing Street, London hobnobbing with Missing People CEO Martin Houghton-Brown, the Duchess of Gloucester and the then Home Secretary Theresa May on 23rd May 2012 (right).
    Brown nosing with a ragbag of rotten rubbish… Amongst those to have supported the McCanns have been especially gobby attention seekers including job wrecker Sir Richard Branson, “Chanel-clad” charity begins at home tin banger Baroness (Catherine) Meyer and her pompous arsehole late ex-husband Sir Christopher Meyer and job wrecking grabber Sir Philip Green.
    Brown nosing with a ragbag of rotten rubbish… Amongst those to have supported the McCanns have been especially gobby attention seekers including job wrecker Sir Richard Branson, “Chanel-clad” charity begins at home tin banger Baroness (Catherine) Meyer and her pompous arsehole late husband Sir Christopher Meyer and job wrecking grabber Sir Philip Green.
    Enough is enough – Missing still yet little to no police resources for their cases… Ben Needham disappeared in Kos, Greece on the 24th July 1991 aged 1 and his mother gets little help for her search; Martin Allen disappeared in London on 5th November 1979 aged 15 and though his brother, Kevin, keeps the case in the public eye as much as he can, he gets little to no help from the Metropolitan Police. Why won’t the police consider reallocating resources away from Operation Grange towards the search for other missing people? £14 million has been wasted for nothing, after all. What are they hiding?
    Enough is enough – Missing still yet little to no police resources for their cases… Ben Needham disappeared in Kos, Greece on the 24th July 1991 aged 1 and his mother gets little help for her search; Martin Allen disappeared in London on 5th November 1979 aged 15 and though his brother, Kevin, keeps the case in the public eye as much as he can, he gets little to no help from the Metropolitan Police. Why won’t the police consider reallocating resources away from Operation Grange towards the search for other missing people? £14 million has been wasted for nothing, after all. What are they hiding?
    Pictured above – Since croaked paedophile Sir Clement Freud (right) lunched with Gerry (left) and Kate McCann in Praia da Luz in Portugal in July 2007, two months after their daughter’s disappearance. Mrs McCann later praised the risotto as “the best she’d ever tasted.” Pictured below – Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at the launch of a book about Sir Clement’s brother, Lucian, titled ‘Breakfast With Lucian’ in 2013 by Geordie Greig. Also in the image are Nicholas Coleridge, Piers Morgan, an unknown child, Geordie Greig and Ariadne Calvo-Platero.
    Pictured above – Since croaked paedophile Sir Clement Freud (right) lunched with Gerry (left) and Kate McCann in Praia da Luz in Portugal in July 2007, two months after their daughter’s disappearance. Mrs McCann later praised the risotto as “the best she’d ever tasted.” Pictured below – Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at the launch of a book about Sir Clement’s brother, Lucian, titled ‘Breakfast With Lucian’ in 2013 by Geordie Greig. Also in the image are Nicholas Coleridge, Piers Morgan, an unknown child, Geordie Greig and Ariadne Calvo-Platero.
    In 2009, private investigators for Gerry and Kate McCann issued an E-FIT to the media of a woman they believed could be “potentially significant” to their investigation. She has never been found, but, speculation online (entirely unproven as accurate thus far) has regularly included: “She looks remarkably like Ghislaine Maxwell.” There is no suggestion that this is one and the same woman, but it would be ever so helpful if the convicted nonce sex trafficker Miss Maxwell came forward and cleared this up for once and for all.
    In 2009, private investigators for Gerry and Kate McCann issued an E-FIT to the media of a woman they believed could be “potentially significant” to their investigation. She has never been found, but, speculation online (entirely unproven as accurate thus far) has regularly included: “She looks remarkably like Ghislaine Maxwell.” There is no suggestion that this is one and the same woman, but it would be ever so helpful if the convicted nonce sex trafficker Miss Maxwell came forward and cleared this up for once and for all.

    Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without answers… £14 million wasted on Operation Grange… Why continue? Why waste more? Why not help others?

    Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:

    • Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?

     

    • Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?

     

    • Why were relevant mobile phone records never handed over to the authorities in spite of them potentially being useful to the search?

     

    • Why did the couple not use the babysitting service on offer in the holiday resort on the evening of 3rd May 2007 when they went out on the razzle dazzle with friends?

     

    • Why was the door to the apartment – which opened directly onto a public highway – left unlocked with three children aged under three years old alone inside?

     

    • Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?

     

    • Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?

     

    • Why did the McCanns repeatedly try to discredit the work of the sniffer dogs and their handlers?

     

     

     

    • Why have the McCanns attempted to ‘gag’ anyone who disputes their version of events – most especially Gonçalo Amaral?

     

    • Why, given over £14 million has been spent on this search to date, has nobody come forward with any sighting of ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann given the very, very substantial rewards on offer?

    Enough is enough – In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in January 2023, with that sum now well in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest. Shouldn’t 2024, when many suffer because of the cost-of-living crisis and many others remain missing without financial assistance for the search for the them, be the time that this pointless waste of funds finally ends?
  • Reservoir Rubbish – More Wasted Money In £14m Search For ‘Missing’ Madeleine McCann

    Reservoir Rubbish – More Wasted Money In £14m Search For ‘Missing’ Madeleine McCann

    Matthew Steeples slams the decision to waste yet more money on top of the £14 million spent by searching a reservoir for Madeleine McCann; it is time precious resources were reallocated to searches for missing people capable of actually being found

    In a new development in the genuinely wasteful £14 million ($17.3 million, €16 million or درهم63.7 million) search for Madeleine McCann – a child who went ‘missing’ after her middle class doctor parents needlessly and neglectfully left her and her siblings alone on 3rd May 2007 in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal – police have today begun searching a reservoir about 25 miles distant from the scene of the ‘vanishing.’

     

    Conducted by Portuguese police at the behest of German police who have been investigating the 45-year-old convicted rapist Christian Brückner – an evil monster, but nonetheless an evil monster cleared  Cleared in February 2021 of the May 2015 kidnapping of Inga Gehricke – here is yet further example of timewasting for the sake of keeping police officers in jobs.

     

    Present in addition to Portuguese and German officers are several from the Metropolitan Police and of the search The Guardian tellingly observed:

     

    “The reservoir was reportedly searched in 2008 and bones found in a bag were judged to be of ‘non-human origin.’ It remains unclear why the police have chosen to search the reservoir again at this point.”

     

    “On Monday evening, Portugal’s judicial police released a statement confirming local media reports that they would conduct the search at the request of the German authorities and in the presence of British officials.”

     

    “This will be the first major operation of its kind since June 2014, when the Metropolitan police received permission from Portuguese officials to search the holiday resort of Praia da Luz with search dogs and ground-penetrating radar.”

     

    In response to this news, today on Twitter, I asked:

     

    “Will today’s search of a reservoir for missing Madeleine McCann lead to new developments or is it just yet another misallocation of resources on top of the £14m already wasted?”

     

    By 11:30am this morning, the majority of the 570 responses, 46.2% favoured the answer: “No; more distraction” whilst 40.5% plumped for: “No; just to keep police £.” Just 13.3% sampled opted for: “Yes; progress at last.” The poll remains open for another 22 hours, but I don’t anticipate those supporting the “yes” option to overcome the 86% who clearly believe that this latest police action to be nothing other than another disgraceful misuse of public money.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Will today’s search of a reservoir for missing Madeleine McCann lead to new developments or is it just yet another misallocation of resources on top of the £14m already wasted?” By 11:30am on Tuesday 23rd May, the majority of respondents unsurprisingly favoured the answer: “No; more distraction.”

    Barragem do Arade reservoir near the town of Silves in the Algarve, about 25 miles (40 kilometres) from Praia da Luz where Madeleine disappeared aged three from her family’s holiday apartment on 3 May 2007.

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    Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers… £14 million wasted on Operation Grange… Why continue? Why waste more? Why not help others?

    Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:

     

    • Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?

     

    • Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?

     

    • Why were relevant mobile phone records never handed over to the authorities in spite of them potentially being useful to the search?

     

    • Why did the couple not use the babysitting service on offer in the holiday resort on the evening of 3rd May 2007 when they went out on the razzle dazzle with friends?

     

    • Why was the door to the apartment – which opened directly onto a public highway – left unlocked with three children aged under three years old alone inside?

     

    • Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?

     

    • Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?

     

    • Why did the McCanns repeatedly try to discredit the work of the sniffer dogs and their handlers?

     

     

     

    • Why have the McCanns attempted to ‘gag’ anyone who disputes their version of events – most especially Gonçalo Amaral?

     

    • Why, given over £14 million has been spent on this search to date, has nobody come forward with any sighting of ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann given the very, very substantial rewards on offer?

     

    Ben-Needham-and-Martin-Allen
    Missing still yet little to no police resources for their cases… Ben Needham disappeared in Kos, Greece on the 24th July 1991 aged 1 and his mother gets little help for her search; Martin Allen disappeared in London on 5th November 1979 aged 15 and though his brother, Kevin, keeps the case in the public eye as much as he can, he gets little to no help from the Metropolitan Police. Why won’t the police consider reallocating resources away from Operation Grange towards the search for other missing people? £14 million has been wasted for nothing, after all. What are they hiding?
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    A sense of priorities… Madeleine McCann on a tennis court prior to her ‘disappearance’ in May 2007 and her parents out running near the resort she ‘disappeared’ in the days after her ‘disappearance.’
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    Living-it-up… Gerry McCann enjoying a round of golf (left); Kate McCann at Downing Street, London hobnobbing with Missing People CEO Martin Houghton-Brown, the Duchess of Gloucester and the then Home Secretary Theresa May on 23rd May 2012 (right).
    Sir-Richard-Branson-Sir-Christopher-Meyer-Baroness-Catherine-Meyer-Sir-Philip-Green
    Brown nosing with a ragbag of rotten rubbish… Amongst those to have supported the McCanns have been especially gobby attention seekers including job wrecker Sir Richard Branson, “Chanel-clad” charity begins at home tin banger Baroness (Catherine) Meyer and her pompous arsehole late ex-husband Sir Christopher Meyer and job wrecking grabber Sir Philip Green.
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    Pictured above: Since croaked paedophile Sir Clement Freud (right) lunched with Gerry (left) and Kate McCann in Praia da Luz in Portugal in July 2007, two months after their daughter’s disappearance. Mrs McCann later praised the risotto as “the best she’d ever tasted.” Pictured below: Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at the launch of a book about Sir Clement’s brother, Lucian, titled ‘Breakfast With Lucian’ in 2013 by Geordie Greig. Also in the image are Nicholas Coleridge, Piers Morgan, an unknown child, Geordie Greig and Ariadne Calvo-Platero.
    Ghislaine-Maxwell-Madeleine-McCann
    In 2009, private investigators for Gerry and Kate McCann issued an E-FIT to the media of a woman they believed could be “potentially significant” to their investigation. She has never been found, but, speculation online (entirely unproven as accurate thus far) has regularly included: “She looks remarkably like Ghislaine Maxwell.” There is no suggestion that this is one and the same woman, but it would be ever so helpful if the convicted nonce sex trafficker Miss Maxwell came forward and cleared this up for once and for all.
    In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in January 2023, with that sum now well in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest. Shouldn’t 2023, when many suffer because of the cost-of-living crisis, be the time that this pointless waste of funds finally ends?
  • More Money For Operation Grange – Is ‘Missing’ Madeleine McCann Search To Get Top-Up On £14m Already Wasted?

    More Money For Operation Grange – Is ‘Missing’ Madeleine McCann Search To Get Top-Up On £14m Already Wasted?

    As a girl brought up in Poland goes on ‘Dr Phil’ to claim to be Madeleine McCann, why is Operation Grange likely to receive a top-up on the £14 million already wasted? Why not help fund the search for other missing people instead?

    A Twitter poll still running by The Steeple Times’s Matthew Steeples this morning stands at around 95% in favour of the Home Office ending funding to Operation Grange – the investigation into the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann.

     

    Established on 12th May 2011 after the daughter of doctors Gerry and Kate McCann went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal on 3rd May 2007 aged just three years old, the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Command unit ‘investigative review’ became an ‘investigation’ subsequently.

     

    Funded to the tune of the astonishing sum of nigh on £14 million to date in spite of finding nada, nowt, nothing, the Daily Mail’s Elizabeth Haigh this morning shockingly claimed: “Police probing disappearance of Madeleine McCann ‘are set to get hundreds of thousands of pounds in new funding.’”

     

    Going further, Haigh added:

     

    “A significant sum has been requested by the Met Police and is likely to be approved by the Home Office, The Sun reports.”

     

    “Each year hundreds of thousands of pounds are spent on attempts to find her… A source close to the ongoing investigation last night said her parents would be ‘delighted’ with the news. The source said: ‘This is excellent news. Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry will be delighted. It gives fresh hope.’ There had been fears the probe into the toddler’s case could be cut back amid budget cuts.”

     

    At a time when the general public are enduring poverty, food banks and struggling due to the cost of living crisis, this is frankly outrageous and turning to such, former Metropolitan Police detective Peter Bleksley was quite rightly quoted as stating:

     

    “As long as there are unanswered questions I can see why there is a case. But, in this time of squeezed budgets, I can also see why eyebrows would be raised. I understand the frustrations of missing children who do not have the luxury of such ongoing funding.”’

     

    Elsewhere this weekend, a woman claiming to be the ‘disappeared without a trace’ now 19-year-old has appeared on the American talk show Dr Phil to claim: “I believe I’m Madeleine McCann.”

     

    Julia Wendell – a young lady brought up in Poland andgenerally assumed to have – “really believes” she could be Kate and Gerry’s McCann’s “long-lost child after recognising Kate McCann’s voice,” according to LBC.

     

    Miss Wendell – who is being bizarrely aided by a medium and private investigator named Dr Fia Johansson – is “currently awaiting the results of a genetic test and submitted three DNA samples and a genetic test, which will help determine her ancestry.” She stated:

     

    “A lot of you ask why Kate and Gerry are not involved. There is no need. Madeleine McCann’s DNA is already there. They don’t need to get involved with media press.”

     

    “I want to say something to Kate McCann: I listened to a song that you sang to your daughter Madeleine. When I hear your voice – from movies, from interviews – I feel like I really know this voice, your voice. I really believe that I could be Madeleine.”

     

    Miss Wendell “wants to be part of the [McCann] family;” God help her.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Pictured Top – ‘Missing’ Madeleine McCann (left) and Julia Wendell, a girl from Poland, who is currently claiming to be the ‘missing’ child.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Is Home Office justified in even considering giving Operation Grange further funding on top of £14m already wasted on search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann? Shouldn’t £££ go towards searching for other missing people instead?” As of 11:30am on Monday 27th March 2023, over 90% of respondents unsurprisingly favoured the answer: “Yes; fund finding others.” The Metropolitan Police and Home Office should, but likely won’t pay attention.
    Ben-Needham-and-Martin-Allen
    Missing still yet little to no police resources for their cases… Ben Needham disappeared in Kos, Greece on the 24th July 1991 aged 1 and his mother gets little help for her search; Martin Allen disappeared in London on 5th November 1979 aged 15 and though his brother, Kevin, keeps the case in the public eye as much as he can, he gets little to no help from the Metropolitan Police. Why won’t the police consider reallocating resources away from Operation Grange towards the search for other missing people? £14 million has been wasted for nothing, after all. What are they hiding?
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    A sense of priorities… Madeleine McCann on a tennis court prior to her ‘disappearance’ in May 2007 and her parents out running near the resort she ‘disappeared’ in the days after her ‘disappearance.’
    Gerry-and-Kate-McCann-Theresa-May
    Living-it-up… Gerry McCann enjoying a round of golf (left); Kate McCann at Downing Street, London hobnobbing with Missing People CEO Martin Houghton-Brown, the Duchess of Gloucester and the then Home Secretary Theresa May on 23rd May 2012 (right).
    Sir-Richard-Branson-Sir-Christopher-Meyer-Baroness-Catherine-Meyer-Sir-Philip-Green
    Brown nosing with a ragbag of rotten rubbish… Amongst those to have supported the McCanns have been especially gobby attention seekers including job wrecker Sir Richard Branson, “Chanel-clad” charity begins at home tin banger Baroness (Catherine) Meyer and her pompous arsehole late ex-husband Sir Christopher Meyer and job wrecking grabber Sir Philip Green.
    Ghislaine-Maxwell-Madeleine-McCann
    In 2009, private investigators for Gerry and Kate McCann issued an E-FIT to the media of a woman they believed could be “potentially significant” to their investigation. She has never been found, but, speculation online (entirely unproven as accurate thus far) has regularly included: “She looks remarkably like Ghislaine Maxwell.” There is no suggestion that this is one and the same woman, but it would be ever so helpful if the convicted nonce sex trafficker Miss Maxwell came forward and cleared this up for once and for all.
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    Pictured above: Since croaked paedophile Sir Clement Freud (right) lunched with Gerry (left) and Kate McCann in Praia da Luz in Portugal in July 2007, two months after their daughter’s disappearance. Mrs McCann later praised the risotto as “the best she’d ever tasted.” Pictured below: Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at the launch of a book about Sir Clement’s brother, Lucian, titled ‘Breakfast With Lucian’ in 2013 by Geordie Greig. Also in the image are Nicholas Coleridge, Piers Morgan, an unknown child, Geordie Greig and Ariadne Calvo-Platero.
    In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in January 2023, with that sum now well in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest. Shouldn’t 2023, when many suffer because of the cost-of-living crisis, be the time that this pointless waste of funds finally ends?

    Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers… £14 million wasted on Operation Grange… Why continue? Why waste more? Why not help others?

    Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:

     

    • Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?

     

    • Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?

     

    • Why were relevant mobile phone records never handed over to the authorities in spite of them potentially being useful to the search?

     

    • Why did the couple not use the babysitting service on offer in the holiday resort on the evening of 3rd May 2007 when they went out on the razzle dazzle with friends?

     

    • Why was the door to the apartment – which opened directly onto a public highway – left unlocked with three children aged under three years old alone inside?

     

    • Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?

     

    • Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?

     

    • Why did the McCanns repeatedly try to discredit the work of the sniffer dogs and their handlers?

     

     

     

    • Why have the McCanns attempted to ‘gag’ anyone who disputes their version of events – most especially Gonçalo Amaral?

     

    • Why, given over £14 million has been spent on this search to date, has nobody come forward with any sighting of ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann given the very, very substantial rewards on offer?

     

  • All That Glitters… Jim Davidson Should Apologise Over Sickening Gary Glitter Remarks

    All That Glitters… Jim Davidson Should Apologise Over Sickening Gary Glitter Remarks

    Matthew Steeples suggests Jim Davidson should admit he got it wrong in suggesting returned to jail paedophile Gary Glitter was a “remorseful’ man who “looked ready to start a new life”

    This morning, the washed-up wazzock and all-round scumbag that is Jim Davidson OBE was trending on Twitter after an interview with the ‘Mouth of the Sewer’ that is GB News’ Dan Wootton last night.

     

    Whilst Davidson – a foul-mouthed ‘5×3’ (five kids by three of his five wives) – used the interview to bang on about “smug” Gary Lineker and how he “never particularly felt welcome” at the BBC, he neglected to comment on his thoughts on the real trending news, that of the filthy paedophile Gary Glitter being returned to jail after just 38 days in a bail hostel after breaching his licence terms.

     

    Glitter – who was caught and photographed by another bail hostel resident using a smartphone to access the ‘Dark Web’ via something called ‘The Onion’ to attempt to snare further victims – had been visited by Davidson at the Isle of Wight prison where he was then housed by the former supermarket shelf-stacker Davidson in 2019.

     

    Afterwards, in June 2021, Davidson shockingly and rather casually shared of his child abusing ‘chum’:

     

    “I spoke to Paul [Gadd, AKA ‘Gary Glitter’] when I visited The Verne [prison] two years. He’s remorseful and he looked ready to start a new life.”

     

    Instead of remarking on this very, very clear ‘error of judgment,’ speaking to Dan Wootton on GB News yesterday regarding the BBC’s #GaryGate debacle, Davidson raged:

     

    “My political interest was cast upon me way before at Thames Television when I had The Jim Davidson Show and a man called John Howard Davis, who was a BBC producer, turned up and got rid of me and Benny Hill overnight.”

     

    “And then, about a year later, I got a little cassette, a VHS, dropped on my desk by my manager and it [sic] said: ‘The BBC want you.’”

     

    “I said: ‘What’s that?’ They [sic] said: ‘They want you to do this, it’s some rotten show about snooker, so me and John Virgo went and did that show and I never particularly felt welcome there.”

     

    “I was a smell under peoples’ noses and then one day Bruce Forsyth went sick and I stepped in and did The Generation Game. I replaced him just for a day and I wasn’t particularly good, but it made Bruce get better very quick.”

     

    “When he went to do his new deal, they said: ‘No, we’ve got Jim Davidson’ and I did The Generation Game for seven years. I did The Big Break for twelve seasons and seven seasons of The Generation Game.”

     

    “Now look at the BBC. I’m totally erased; I am the statue that’s thrown into Bristol Docks… They gave me a million quid to go away. I had a contract with a million quid’s worth of wages and they said: ‘We’ll give you a million quid if you go away; please don’t tell anyone,” but I told you ‘Danny Boy’ [Dan Wootton].”

     

    “I was worse [than anything else] because I was a working-class Tory. I was a traitor and I like to mess about and have a laugh and be rude and stuff on the rehearsals and it was all pretty much frowned upon.”

     

    “They’re more concerned in being woke and ticking boxes. You know, ticking boxes; the man said to me: ‘We have to have 8.9% ethnic minorities on every show’ and so if you couldn’t get anybody that wanted to come on Big Break who was of non-white persuasion, you had to go out and kidnap some poor bugger and throw him in.”

     

    “You know, err, it was daft and do you know what I learnt there, and I’ve been in the business forty-seven years… I’m nearly one-hundred… So, you learn a thing or two about the BBC and it’s full of people that don’t know how to make programmes. I had to tick a box and I had to be silly.”

     

    “Now, I wouldn’t have thrown Lineker off like that and having a boss called Tim. Now come on, how scary is a Tim?”

     

    “Now, anyway, you wouldn’t throw someone off; just turn them off. I can understand that it’s taxpayers’ money and I hate the BBC with a passion. It’s a toss-up between them and the NHS who I hate the most, but I, you know, I wouldn’t have got rid of him because now Tim’s shown himself as lily livered.”

     

    “[Lineker] can now say what he wants, can’t he? He’s won and he’s going to be even smugger. Smug, smugger.”

     

    “It’s upto Tim and all those silly people [what the BBC does next] and now they want to get rid of the chairman ‘cos he arranged some loan or helped Boris [Johnson]. Now, everyone’s just picking on one another. I think the BBC have lost the public; they’ve lost the dressing room.”

     

    “You know, who do we watch now? GB News, anything but BBC. What does the BBC stand for? ‘Bring Back Corbyn,’ ‘Bring Back Communism.’”

     

    “You know, it is a joke and we have to pay for it whether we like it or not. You know, let’s scrap it and watch GB News all day long.

     

    Responding, this morning on Twitter, I asked:

     

    “As Jim Davidson trends, should he apologise for his June 2021 remark: “I spoke to Paul Gadd [Gary Glitter] when I visited The Verne [prison] two years ago. He’s remorseful and he looked ready to start a new life” given the paedo has been recalled to prison after being caught on Dark Web?”

     

    Other Twitter users took up the mantle and amongst comments were:

     

    “I wonder if Jim Davidson still believes that Gary Glitter is remorseful and ready to start a new life?”

     

    “Remember when Jim Davidson was funny? Me neither.”

     

    “Fun Fact: For years the BBC didn’t give a flying sh*t about their right-wing so-called ‘comedian’ Jim Davidson’s racist/misogynistic stage show when he was hosting their flagship Saturday night show ‘The Generation Game’ #IStandWithGaryLineker.”

     

    All that Glitters is not gold; all that is Jim Davidson is utterly toxic and now it is time for the latter to apologise for getting it well and truly wrong about one of the most evil men ever to set foot on this planet.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGGBmDZbfgE
    TRAILER – Matthew Steeples will be ‘live’ with Shaun Attwood to discuss his views on Gary Glitter being returned to the clink after breaching his licence terms whilst in a bail hostel on Wednesday 15th March at 6pm GMT. Please do tune in and please do ask away.
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    FULL EPISODE – This will be ‘live’ for the first time at 6pm GMT on Wednesday 15th March 2023. View here.
    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “As Jim Davidson trends, should he apologise for his June 2021 remark: “I spoke to [Gary Glitter] when I visited The Verne [prison] 2 years ago. He’s remorseful and he looked ready to start a new life” given the paedo has been recalled to prison after being caught on Dark Web?” He gave the options: A) “Yes, disgraceful remark”; B) “No, second chances matter”; C) “Cancel Davidson and Glitter” and D) “Couldn’t care less.” By 11:30am on Wednesday 15th March 2023, the majority of respondents favoured the idea of the cancellation of this noxious pair of grifters.
    Dan Wootton Jim Davidson
    GB News is about the only channel that will now accept the weird warblings of these two utter berks.
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    A pair of toerags forever linked by a hashtag.
    Nonce Defender
    Twitter users have rightly mocked the ‘entertainer’ over his decision to visit a disgraced ‘singer’ who abused children as young as 10 years old in prison. What on earth was it about the paedophile-nonce-monster Gary Glitter that attracted Jim Davidson to visit him in prison? An answer is required. The public should be told.
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    Those that think Gary Lineker was WRONG to tweet about politics whilst working for the BBC should be reminded that both Jim Davidson and the late paedophile Sir Jimmy Savile openly campaigned for the Conservative Party and that both men also worked for the BBC. It is pure hypocrisy to call out Mr Lineker on this basis.
    It is very clear that Dan Wootton has no nous when it comes to questioning Jim Davidson. Mr Wootton is clearly not a journalist prone to drilling into real stories; he just PR peddles for his chums.

    Deserved “Public Hate Figure” Jim Davidson OBE’s Worst Moments…

    On Great Yarmouth:

    “Full of fat children of all colours.”

     

    On London and the UK:

    “I am never coming to London again… I may as well go to Dubai and be an ethnic minority there than wait five years till I become one here.”

     

    On former UKIP leader Nigel Farage:

    “The Jim Davidson of the political world.”

     

    On beating up one of his four ex-wives:

    “We’re like a couple of boxers. On the first occasion, I poked her in the eye by accident. I actually went for the mouth… The second time I gave her a shiner. I threw a bunch of keys which whacked her in the eye. Just for a giggle she kept blackening it up to make it look worse.”

     

    “I took the wife out last night; one punch!”

     

    On supposedly giving up on making jokes about black people:

    “I can’t do impressions of Frank Bruno or Ian Wright? That’s racist, is it? But I can do Sven-Göran Eriksson?”

     

    “I’m not going to get on my knee, and I’m not going to go ever black person I see, ‘hail you.’ I’m not going to apologise for the past; the past was the past.”

     

    On Black Lives Matter protestors:

    “Pondlife… F**king stupid.”

     

    Of his thoughts about his chum Boris Johnson:

    “Don’t listen with mother.”

     

    On Piers Morgan (after he was paid to appear on his Life Stories programme):

    “You don’t deserve to listen to anyone’s life story because you don’t f**king listen.”

     

    On the BBC and the NHS:

    “I was a smell under peoples’ noses… I’m totally erased; I am the statue that’s thrown into Bristol Docks… They gave me a million quid to go away.”

     

    “I hate the BBC with a passion. It’s a toss-up between them and the NHS who I hate the most.”

     

    Proving himself the ultimate ‘Brain of Britain’:

    “People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.”

     

    After being declared bankrupt:

    “My problem is money.”

     

    On himself:

    “I could cure Aids and give £1 billion to womens’ groups and people would still think I was a racist, sexist twat”.

     

    “I’m a homophobic arsehole.”

     

  • Jobs For The Girls… The Toxic Legacy Of Dame Cressida Dick And Her Connections To Sex Fiend Ghislaine Maxwell

    Jobs For The Girls… The Toxic Legacy Of Dame Cressida Dick And Her Connections To Sex Fiend Ghislaine Maxwell

    Just as the toxic culture of sexual abuse at the Metropolitan Police is highlighted, we again remind that it was a female one-time school chum of noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell, Dame Cressida Dick, who presided over this rotten organisation for much of this period

    “Do you feel safe around the police?” enquired Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour this morning specifically in the context of the latest Metropolitan policeman-rapist David Carrick – a now convicted criminal who should never have passed vetting in the first place given accusations against him prior to and during his appointment.

     

    Ms Barnett was right to ask such, but what she very clearly missed was to observe was that the very person at the helm of this police force during much of Carrick’s time committing many of his crimes was a woman, Dame Cressida Dick DBE QPM.

     

    Currently there are about 1,000 allegations of domestic abuse or sexual offences against the Met’s 45,000 officers and staff and yet again today it has been highlighted that criminal conduct within this force has again and again been ignored. “How can it have failed again?” raged former chief constable of Nottinghamshire Sue Fish in today’s The Guardian and going further, she quite sensibly added: “If police are abusing their position to exploit those they are charged to protect, how can the institution be trusted?” She is correct and now the powers must be must put this grave situation right.

     

    Turning back more specifically to the now put-out-to-paddock Dame Cressida, the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden highlighted another scandal in which she failed to act forcefully – that of the ‘Partygate’ probe into Boris Johnson and his cronies ‘living-it-large’ at Downing Street during COVID-19 lockdowns. Eden observed:

     

    “Commander Catherine Roper, who has been confirmed as Wiltshire’s new Chief Constable, was previously in charge of the ‘Partygate’ probe into Covid breaches in Downing Street. She was given the role by Cressida Dick. In her new job, Roper will have to look after several well-known Wiltshire dignitaries – including Dick, who has a home in the county. Small world, isn’t it?”

     

    Dame Cressida’s cronyism and curious connections have repeatedly been examined in The Steeple Times. She went to the same school as the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Oxford High School, at the same time as her and attended the same college at the University of Oxford, Balliol. Dame Cressida’s father, Marcus Dick (1920 – 1971) just happened also to be the senior tutor at Balliol College also and in 1994, when the Metropolitan Police could have pursued allegations that Maxwell was operating an upmarket brothel from her Stanhope Mews East, South Kensington, London home, the force did nothing. Paraphrasing Richard Eden: “Strange that, isn’t it?”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    Pictured Top (left to right) – Continually criticised ex-Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick, convicted sex offender David Carrick and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.

     

    Wayne Couzens David Carrick
    Rotten to its core… Wayne Couzens and David Carrick are just two examples of sex fiends who were allowed free reign to commit crimes whilst working for the Metropolitan Police. It is now time that this force be stopped from “marking its own homework” has been an analysis repeatedly stated in the hours since the conviction of Carrick.
    Richard Eden Commander Catherine Roper
    Richard Eden’s feature this morning highlighted a bit more of “jobs for the girls” going on with the appointment of Catherine Roper as Wiltshire’s new chief constable.
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    Both Ghislaine Maxwell and Dame Cressida Dick grew up and were educated in the ‘City of Dreaming Spires.’ Though Dame Cressida does not appear in the former’s address book, their connections during their formative years surely must have meant that their paths crossed – especially since the former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis’ father was the senior tutor at the very college, Balliol, where both ladies studied.
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    Since dead sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein and his since incarcerated co-collaborator sex fiend Ghislaine Maxwell (left), one-time alleged brothel owned by Maxwell between 1989 and 1997, 69 Stanhope Mews East in South Kensington (centre) and Maxwell’s former schoolmate and now ex-Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick (right).
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    69 Stanhope Mews East, South Kensington, London, SW7 5QT was the subject of a covert surveillance exercise by the Metropolitan Police in 1994 whilst under the ownership of the pension pot plundering ‘Cap’n Bob’s’ decidedly deviant daughter. Very young ladies of a certain type were seen coming and going during the period and it was suspected by neighbours that the house was being operated as a “high-class whore house” run by a “smart looking madam.”
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    The current occupants of 69 Stanhope Mews are clearly sick of media attention and in spite of the mews house being on a public highway recently placed a “no photography or video recording” sign in their window. They also have a problem with dogs peeing on their plant pots.
  • Shock Horror (Not)! MPs Engaged in “Sex & Heavy Drinking” On Trips Abroad

    Shock Horror (Not)! MPs Engaged in “Sex & Heavy Drinking” On Trips Abroad

    That ‘The Guardian’ is shocked by news that MPs – mostly Tories, it seems – “engaged in ‘sex and heavy drinking’ on trips abroad” is actually beyond bloody laughable

    In a year when one now former MP, Neil Parish, was caught watching ‘tractor porn’ – whatever that may actually be – on a camera in the Chamber of the House of Commons, that The Guardian actually seems surprised that “No. 10 [is] ‘concerned’ MPs engaged in ‘sex and heavy drinking on trips abroad” is actually beyond laughable.

     

    Aside from missing out on bringing up ‘Naughty Tories’ who used to go around groping such as the convicted sex offender and ex-MP for Dover, Charlie Elphicke – a criminal and husband of the immigrant hating current MP for Dover, Natalie Elphicke – being a fine example of the type of people politics in Britain currently sadly attracts, Rowena Mason, the paper’s ‘Whitehall editor,’ banged on about how a report focused on how “MPs were reportedly met by sex workers in their hotel rooms and engaged in raucous drinking while on parliamentary trips abroad.” Why on earth was she surprised?

     

    Ms Mason’s article highlighted that the Prime Minister’s office responded to her enquiries by suggesting that it “clearly very concerning” that MPs on “fact-finding trips” including one Conservative MP “asked where the nearest brothel was when he visited a country in south-east Asia.” Why on earth was she surprised?

     

    Going further, the MailOnline’s political editor, James Tapsfield, went further and added that: “Fears have been raised by over blackmail attempts by hostile states after claims MPs found sex workers waiting in their hotel rooms on a foreign trip. The politicians are said to have been part of an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) visit to a dictatorship when the extraordinary circumstances arose.” Why on earth was Rowena Mason surprised?

     

    Tapsfield continued and claimed: “There is no suggestion the MPs knew the prostitutes would be there, or that they used their services – but the claim highlights the potential risks with complaints that some trips are blighted by ‘sex and heavy drinking.’” Could Rowena Mason still be reasonably surprised?

     

    Last month, the Independent reported that a senior Conservative MP had been reported to the police over allegations they committed rape and a series of sexual assaults” by “a group of colleagues, themselves Tory MPs” on 28th October.

     

    Amongst other MPs currently under suspicion are a Tory MP, arrested in June 2021 and awaiting a charge decision, for alleged historic sex crimes and another on bail over separate allegations of rape.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    Neil Parish tractor porn
    Now ex-MP Neil Parish will forever just be remembered at for watching ‘tractor porn’ whilst sitting in the Chamber of the House of Commons. This creepy farmer turned Tory will go down in history as a grubby, skid-mark on parliamentary history. Mr Parish laughably claimed later that what he had done was “very immoral” but not illegal; he argued that he’d actually been looking at Class Dominator tractors, a brand of combine harvesters.
    Sally Bercow
    Another person who thought she could make the House of Commons a “sexual area” was Sally Bercow, the wife of the now former Speaker, John Bercow. She is pictured here in their home within the Palace of Westminster clad in nothing but a sheet. That she went on to have an affair with her own husband’s cousin, Alan Bercow, about says all that needs to be said.
    Chris Pincher
    Chris Pincher MP was suspended from the Conservative parliamentary party in in the summer after allegedly groping two men at the ritzy Carlton Club in tony St James’s, London. He apologised later for drinking “far too much” and “embarrassing himself and other people,” but in doing so he helped speed up the fall of the then Tory leader Boris Johnson.
    David Warburton
    In April 2022, the Conservative MP for Somerton and Frome, David Warburton, was accused of sexually harassing three women. He was subsequently admitted to a psychiatric hospital, pictured in a photograph with lines of what looked like cocaine and was also revealed to have taken a loan of £150,000 from a Russian businessman through a Seychelles company without declaring it. This member of Mensa remains suspended from the Tories awaiting the outcome of an Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) investigation into allegations of harassment and drug abuse.
    Rob Roberts
    Another decidedly dodgy MP still in the House of Commons is Rob Roberts. The Member for Delyn “acted inappropriately after he sought to engage in a relationship with a male member of his staff,” according to a report in May 2021. He was elected as a Conservative, but still shockingly sits as an independent to this day.
    Imran Ahmad Khan
    This year also in April, Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan was jailed for groping a 15-year-old boy in 2008. He was expelled from the Conservative Party and resigned as an MP. He subsequently appealed, but failed to convince anyone that he was anything but a nonce in December 2022.
    Charles Elphicke Natalie Elphicke Naughty Tory sex offender
    The ultimate examples in Tory sex pest scum are Charlie Elphicke – a now convicted, ex-MP and sex offender – and his wicked, immigrant hating scumbag wife, Natalie Elphicke. That the Conservatives gave this woman her criminal husband’s seat to make her own speaks volumes as to how the once great political party of Margaret Thatcher feels about making monsters pay for sex crimes.
  • Where’s Gary Glitter? Rumours Circulate That Evil Paedophile Is Moving To Margate

    Where’s Gary Glitter? Rumours Circulate That Evil Paedophile Is Moving To Margate

    WORLD EXCLUSIVE – Residents of Margate, Kent furious that evil paedophile Gary Glitter is AGAIN attempting to move to their seaside town as the “sick bastard’s” imminent release in early 2023 is announced

    Gary Glitter – born Paul Gadd in Banbury, Oxfordshire in May 1944 – is a monster, a maniac and a manipulator. The I’m the Leader of the Gang (I Am) crooner is an evil-to-his-rotten-core paedophile who has been convicted on multiple occasions and in 2009, former Home Secretary and ex-Maidstone and Weald, Kent MP Ann Widdecombe even appeared on a Channel 4 tellybox show titled The Execution of Gary Glitter about him.

     

    At the time, human death penalty supporting but “animal loving” Miss Widdecombe bizarrely claimed she didn’t know she what the programme she was even appearing in. She later told the Kent Messenger: “I didn’t know I was in it… I don’t have anything personal against Gary Glitter.” Going further, however, she added there was a “moral case for” the death penalty,” claimed “it acts as a deterrent” yet tempered: “I don’t have a view on whether he [Glitter] should have been executed.”

     

    Now, it has emerged that in spite of just serving 7 years of a 16-year sentence given in 2015, it seems the 78-year-old onetime ‘glam rocker’ could be about to get out of jail in early 2023 and it is said he could be moving to Margate in Kent – a town better known for its connections to artists Tracey Emin and J. M. W. Turner.

     

    “Why Margate?” we hear you ask. Aside from in November 2008, the Kent Messenger claiming: “Is Glitter living in Kent?” to be the “hottest rumour around” and him having previously registered as wanting to use Ashford International Stadium, Kent as part of his “travel applications,” it now seems Margate residents seem to suspect this evil cretin could be soon lurking like a leech amongst their midst. He is tellingly said to have “familial connections to the area.”

     

    Glitter previously featured, on a prior gap between his many, many jail stints in Britain and beyond, in a video allegedly made in Margate last in August 2008. In the very short 0:18-second clip supposedly filmed in the town, the “paedophile tw*t” was asked if he was “coming back to England” and then he ran away. The video is available to view below whilst in February 2009, one member of the Mumsnet social network got very upset that they’d “just discovered Gary Glitter [might have been] living less than a mile away from [their] son’s school in Margate.”

     

    Ms Jenkins later continued: “He is definitely in Margate. Loads of people have seen him in and around there since before Christmas. Apparently, the local cab firms won’t pick him up.”

     

    This particular lady, going by the name of Lottie Jenkins, at the time, remarked: “I know he is being monitored… But it’s the thought that he is so close… People keep telling me [he] has to live somewhere. Can’t they find some far flung island to put him on?”

     

    On Sunday, a local resident, speaking to The Steeple Times on condition of anonymity about what they knew about this very inappropriately titled Do You Wanna Touch Me singer-songwriter possibly relocating to this seaside resort, raged:

     

    “It is disgusting that this filthy creature might be allowed to live in the proximity of adults let alone children in a built-up urban area where there are many young families.”

     

    “I’ve had it on good authority that the sick bastard Glitter has been allowed out on day release trips and as part of his preparation for freedom, Margate has been placed on the agenda as being somewhere he could live. I was even told he visited recently to have a gander.”

     

    “As a grandmother, I’m furious and I want answers. I know he’s got to live somewhere, but we just don’t want filth here and I can assure you, mark my words, there’ll be hell to pay if he does turn up in any local shop, café, bar or restaurant.”

     

    At the weekend, Sam Merriman and Simon Parry for The Mail on Sunday further observed of Glitter’s likely 2023 release:

     

    “Sex offenders released from prison are closely monitored by both the police and the Probation Service and may be recalled to jail if they breach their strict licence conditions.”

     

    His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service were contacted at their Clive House, 60 Petty France, London headquarters for comment on Monday by The Steeple Times but declined to comment. A representative remarked: “We cannot discuss individual cases” before curtly hanging up; they most definitely didn’t, however, add: Hello, Hello, [Call] Back Again.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR7q1o_6kQA
    In August 2008, in a video shared on YouTube, Paul Gadd was filmed in Margate allegedly thus linking him to the Kent resort best known otherwise for Emin and Turner.
    The Execution Channel 4 Ann Widdecombe
    In November 2009, wacky-not-wonderful weirdo The Right Honourable Ann Widdecombe DSG claimed she didn’t know she would be appearing in a fictional drama titled ‘The Execution of Garry Glitter’ when she agreed to participate in it. Speaking to the ‘Kent Messenger’ later, she ludicrously lamented: “I didn’t even know I was in it. At the time I knew merely that they were putting on a drama that suggested the home secretary had reinstated the death penalty, and that at the end the home secretary would have doubts. They said at a later stage they might use it in relation to a specific case. They wanted to do the interview and I agreed to do it. I don’t have anything personal against Gary Glitter.”
    Jim Davidson
    In June 2021, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported that the washed-up wazzock Jim Davidson – a ‘5×3’ given his having had 5 kids by 3 of his 5 wives – had come out as a supporter of Gary Glitter (born Paul Gadd) and commented: “I spoke to Paul when I visited The Verne [prison] two years. He’s remorseful and he looked ready to start a new life.” Davidson was subsequently condemned as a “Nonce Defender.”
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    Jimmy Savile
    With friends like these… Pictured with a random woman and a nasty, vomit yellow coloured jumper wearing Sir Jimmy Savile. They do say ‘paedos of a feather doth flock together.’
    Cliff Richard
    With friends like these… Pictured with creepy Christian crooner Sir Cliff Richard, the ‘Another Rock and Roll Christmas’ singer looking (un)extraordinarily off his freakish face.
    Children in Need Pudsey Bear
    In January 1990, Gary Glitter – pictured here with a BBC ‘Children In Need’ Pudsey Bear – was interviewed by the ‘Smash Hits’ turned ‘Q Magazine’ journalist Tom Hibbert. Quoting from his regular: “Who the Hell Does _____ Think He Is?” feature, ‘The Rebel Magazine’ shared in October 2012: “’Cor! It was raunchy on the road, aw haw. It was very good. I used to take my pick of the girls, you know. I remember Helsinki, looking out the hotel window and there was 4,000 girls waiting – at least 4,000 because I was counting, I was standing there on the balcony and I’d get the binoculars and I was saying. Send me up that one. I’ll have that one. And that one. It was that easy.’ Hibbert asks him if he’d rather be trying to make the world a better place. Does he ever wish he went into politics? Glitter: ‘But I am political. I do it subliminally! Cor! There’s a long word I never used before… I do it subliminally and I think I’m pretty powerful, mean, some of my dinner parties, some of the gang go out and do all the talking and I’m the funny little Buddha sitting in the corner.’ Tom Hibbert: ‘What are you talking about?’ Glitter: ‘I have power. I’m the leader of the gang. I am power. Power with love, love rock ‘n’ roll and power, power to… you know? Do you know what I’m saying? That’s what I’m talking about.’” With the benefit of hindsight, one can ask why Paul Gadd wasn’t immediately arrested. Shame on the Metropolitan Police.
    Tessa Dahl
    When he appeared on ‘This is Your Life’ in 1992 with children’s author Roald Dahl’s daughter Tessa, she remarked on how “schoolgirls paid £5 to gaze at him.” Talk about sickening. The ‘Daily Mail’ later reported: “The singer fidgets in his seat, loosens his scarf and puts a finger to his lips in a bid to silence Miss Dahl, who is also an author. Speaking to host Michael Aspel, she says: ‘My sister Lucy turned it into quite a successful venture. She used to pack the train full of adolescent school friends in school uniform and they’d skive school. She would bring them to the house and would charge them £5 a head to come and gaze at the Glitter.’ Addressing Glitter, Miss Dahl – the mother of model and TV presenter Sophie – added: ‘The house actually turned into a sort of Gary Glitter fan club outpost, which you quite liked.’ Glitter, who had already committed several sexual offences at that point, laughs nervously. Glitter’s paedophilia was exposed when he took his computer containing 4,000 images of child abuse to be fixed at PC World in Bristol in 1997. The Dahl family had no knowledge of his crimes.”
    Piers Morgan
    And finally… Poor Piers Morgan – a man who seems to be like a magnet for such fiends… He’s also been pictured with other paedophile, nonce sex offenders including Max Clifford, Ghislaine Maxwell, Rolf Harris and Harvey Weinstein.
  • From Loser To Lord – Should Shameless Shaun Bailey Be Elevated To House of Lords?

    From Loser To Lord – Should Shameless Shaun Bailey Be Elevated To House of Lords?

    Though Tory twerp Shaun Bailey got away with partying with billionaire Nick Candy during the 2020 lockdowns, that this ludicrous loser and electoral disaster area might now get a seat in the House of Lords courtesy of his chum Boris Johnson is utterly outrageous

    Whilst the dimwitted dunce Emma Dent-Coad was shown to be an abhorrent bigot when she described Shaun Bailey, the subsequently trounced and utterly inept Conservative London mayoral candidate in May 2021, as a “token ghetto boy,” that he might now make it to the House of Lords is frankly ludicrous.

     

    Beyond batshit bonkers Bailey, who partied with the billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy in December 2020 at Conservative Central Office in spite of strict lockdown rules being in place at the time, it was yesterday revealed was subject to no action. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police shared that “there was not enough to ‘disprove the version of events provided by attendees,’” The Guardian’s political correspondent Peter Walker yesterday reported.

     

    Whilst countless ordinary folk were fined and named and shamed, that the hapless police force then headed by the disastrous dimwit Dame Cressida Dick opted to let off the pontificating pillock Bailey is an utter outrage, but what is worse is that it has also been suggested that Boris Johnson has nominated him for a seat in the House of Lords in his resignation honours list.

     

    A self-declared “different dude” who has branded himself “gobby and dangerous,” Bailey not only lost to Sadiq Khan but also offered idiotic policies such as giving free burglar alarms to pensioners. He once also suggested that the 60,000 plus “homeless people in the capital would be able to save up for a £5,000 deposit to buy a share in a newly-built affordable home.”

     

    Going further, in 2005, Bailey made a berk of himself by claiming “accommodating Muslims and Hindus” in the UK was “robbing Britain of its community.” His nonsense was clearly shown to be such given the 2011 census revealed that 40.2% of London’s population to be non-white.

     

    Another blunder came in since quite rightly removed comments he left on the Conservative Women’s Organisation website. There, he observed: “If you could get girls to accept less of men’s rubbish then men would have to change because ultimately men are after a girl.”

     

    Is this moronic man fit for elevation to the House of Lords? The answer is unequivocally: “NO!”

     

    Pictured top – This likely future Lord claimed to offer “a fresh start for London” yet the electorate simply thought he was selling washing powder. They didn’t like the quality of his powder and they universally rejected this gobby goon and sent him packing; why then is he suitable for the House of Lords?

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    Who’s more stupid and who is ghastlier: Shaun Bailey or Owen Jones? During a 16:29 minute YouTube feature in May 2019, Bailey declared: “Nobody has a monopoly on common sense,” but then went on to prove he’s totally lacking in even an ounce of such.
    Party at CCHQ with Nick Candy
    Shaun Bailey pictured with Nick Candy and others at a Christmas party during lockdown 2020 at Conservative Central Office at 4 Matthew Parker Street, London, SW1H 9HQ.
    Shaun Bailey with Boris Johnson. The fact that the pair “get on well” was proof enough that the loopy wannabe Mayor of London was unfit for high office.
    Priti Patel
    That Shaun Bailey was also snapped “minglin’” with Priti Patel illustrated the low qualities of those he chose to associate with him. That a woman voted a “snitch” and a “neighbour from hell” was someone he opted to be snapped with on the campaign trail was proof enough that he simply didn’t have his finger on the pulse.
    The now former London mayoral candidate with former Prime Minister David Cameron. The smug look on this duo’s faces sums up the “f**k the rest of you” attitude of these opportunists; here is a pair whose involvement in politics has caused nothing but disaster for everyone whilst their own pockets get deeper.

    Paradise Papers
    In January 2019, ‘The Red Roar’ reported Bailey was forced to return donations to his campaign from an “impermissible donor” linked to the Paradise Papers scandal. His judgment is so piss poor that quite rightly now the public are quite rightly outraged that he could be elevated to the House of Lords.
  • Morons of the Moment 2022 – Despicable Just Stop Oil Vandals

    Morons of the Moment 2022 – Despicable Just Stop Oil Vandals

    The Just Stop Oil ‘protestors’ who attacked a Van Gogh yesterday should be branded as what they truly are: Moronic vandals; that their organisation is funded by a member of the Getty family is even more outrageous

    Vexatious vicenarians Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer are due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today after being charged with criminal damage to Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ (1888) oil painting at the National Gallery in London.

     

    At 11am yesterday, these Just Stop Oil ‘protestors’ (as they’d like to brand themselves; we’ll instead term them ‘brainless vandals’) entered Room 43 at the gallery and threw an orange substance believed to be Heinz tomato soup at the painting. They then glued themselves to the wall beneath it and started shouting.

     

    The pink haired half of this deranged pair of deviants launched into what Metro termed a “rambling tirade” and ranted:

     

    “What is worth more, art of life? Is it worth more than food, worth more than justice?”

     

    “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”

     

    “The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis. Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup.”

     

    “We cannot afford more oil and gas. It is going to take everything we know and love. We will [unintelligible]…”

     

    At this point security guards cleared the room to spare other visitors listening to these attention-seeking, moronic maniacs and to allow the Metropolitan Police access to arrest 20-year-old Newcastle resident Holland and 21-year-old Clapham resident Plummer.

     

    Valued at a sum of at least £75.3 million ($84.2 million, €86.6 million or درهم309.2 million), the painting was fortunately protected by a piece of glass but National Gallery sources later confirmed: “There is some minor damage to the frame, but the painting is unharmed.”

     

    In a statement late Friday, scumbags associated with the duo raged: “The art establishment, artists and the art-loving public need to step up into civil resistance if they want to live a world where humans are around to appreciate art.”

     

    Subsequently, however, Holland and Plummer were deservedly condemned for their totally irrational and utterly pointless prank. On Twitter, one user called the pugnacious pair “Hooray Henrietta thugs” whilst broadcaster Janet Street-Porter added: “[Does] vandalising a masterpiece make a point about the cost of living? Well done Phoebe and Anna – you are just a couple of twerps.”

     

    Another, Russ Jones, sensibly concluded:

     

    “What on earth has Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ got to do with oil? Why not shove Michelangelo’s ‘David’ into the sea to stop oil? Pound a mammoth skeleton into dust to stop oil? Stab a dolphin? Piss onto a puffin? I’m completely behind stopping oil, but this seems mad.”

     

    Ironically, Aileen Getty gave £447,000 ($500,000, €514,000 or درهم1.8 million) to Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) – sponsors of Just Stop Oil’s obnoxious activities which also includes blocking roads used by ambulances rushing people to hospitals in the UK– in 2019. Her Getty Oil founder grandfather is no doubt spinning in his grave.

     

    The disgraceful duo behind this pointless protest must have alerted members of the media in advance as cameras were present to capture their disgraceful action. Shame on the media present for not alerting the police and National Gallery. This disgrace clearly could have been prevented.
    Metropolitan Police arrest
    The Metropolitan Police, for once, did a great job and swiftly dragged Holland and Plummer down to the nick – along with their can of Heinz tomato soup.
    New Scotland Yard
    In a separate incident yesterday afternoon, another member of the same group sprayed orange paint over the New Scotland Yard sign outside the Metropolitan Police headquarters. Lora Johnson, 38, of Southwold was subsequently also arrested and charged.
    Aileen Getty
    Hypocritical heiress Aileen Getty’s wealth stems from oil, yet she spends her wealth funding morons who go around attacking oil paintings. She ought to consider the ridiculousness of her position given that she lives off wealth created from oil – the very thing those she funds are so hateful of.

    Twitter reactions to the mindless vandalism of a Van Gogh…

  • Libelled Out – Madeleine McCann’s Parents Lose Libel Case In Highest Court In Europe

    Libelled Out – Madeleine McCann’s Parents Lose Libel Case In Highest Court In Europe

    As Gerry and Kate McCann lose their libel case in the European Court of Human Rights, it is time for the pointless and totally wasteful £14 million search for their daughter to finally wind down

    This morning in Strasbourg, the European Court of Rights unsurprisingly ruled against Gerry and Kate McCann, the parents of the ‘missing’ since 2007 child Madeleine McCann, and in favour of the “thorn in their side” ex PJ police coordinator Gonçalo Amaral.

     

    Bringing an end to an almighty and very costly charade where costs and damages will likely run into the hundreds of thousands for the McCanns and their foundation, Mr Amaral’s victory in this highest of courts ends the prospects of the British couple being able to pursue him further.

     

    In a judgment issued online, “the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: no violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.”

     

    Going further, the court added:

     

    “The case concerned statements made by a former detective inspector – in a book, a documentary and a newspaper interview – about the applicants’ alleged involvement in the disappearance of their daughter, Madeleine McCann, who went missing on 3 May 2007 in southern Portugal. Before the Court, the applicants alleged that there had been a violation of their right to reputation and to their right to be presumed innocent.”

     

    “The Court considered that, even assuming that the applicants’ reputation had been damaged, this was not on account of the argument put forward by the book’s author but rather as a result of the suspicions expressed against them, which had led to their being placed under investigation in the course of the criminal investigation (the prosecutor’s office decided to take no further action in July 2008) and had led to intense media attention and much controversy.”

     

    “The information had thus been brought to the public’s attention in some detail even before the investigation file was made available to the media and the book in question was published. It followed that the national authorities had not failed in their positive obligation to protect the applicants’ right to respect for their private life.”

     

    “The Court also considered that in the Supreme Court’s judgments of January and March 2017 – concerning the civil claims lodged by the applicants – it had not made comments implying any guilt on the part of the applicants or even suggesting suspicions against them with regard to the circumstances in which their daughter had disappeared. The applicants’ complaint concerning their right to be presumed innocent was thus manifestly ill-founded.”

     

    Responding, journalist and anti-corruption in charity campaigner Matthew Steeples, who has written extensively about the case since 2007 and who was introduced to Mr and Mrs McCann by the “Chanel-clad” former charity boss Baroness Meyer remarked:

     

    “The vexatiously litigious McCanns have failed in their efforts to sully the name of Gonçalo Amaral. They have, with clear tenacity, gone after this Portuguese police officer again and again since 2008 and when Portugal’s highest court ruled that he was entitled to ‘freedom of expression’ in 2017, they still did not give up.”

     

    “Today, having wasted yet more money in regard to a case of a ‘missing person’ who will likely never be found on top of the £14 million ($16 million, €15.9 million or درهم58.8 million) of public money already squandered, I suggest that it is time for this merry-go-round to stop and it is also time for Mr Amaral to be left in peace.”

     

    “Whatever occurred on the evening of 3rd May 2007 in Praia da Luz, Portugal was most certainly a tragedy and a tragedy most definitely for Madeleine McCann – a 3-year-old child who had a full life ahead of her. It was right that the case was investigated, but over 15 years have passed.”

     

    “As I have said again and again, there are other missing people out there and there are cases that with resources could and can be solved. These cases get little to no support and the disproportionate allocation of resources to the search for Madeleine McCann – a child who would by now be an 18-year-old adult – is clearly never going to lead anywhere.”

     

    “Enough is enough. The end of the road has been reached and it is time that the Metropolitan Police finally wound down the disgraceful waste of money and resources that is Operation Grange.”

     

    Meanwhile elsewhere, again today, we remind readers that Christian Brueckner – the current main ‘suspect’ in the case – has still not been charged. Strange that; very strange indeed.

     

    Pictured top – ‘Missing’ since 3rd May 2007 Madeleine McCann (left) as a child and her parents out running in the days after their daughter supposedly vanished off-the-face of the planet.

     

    Gonçalo Amaral
    Gonçalo Amaral was again victorious after the ECHR decided in favour of the Portuguese civil courts being right in their decision.
    ECHR
    The European Court of Human Rights tossed out Mr and Mrs McCann’s case against Portuguese detective Gonçalo Amaral on Tuesday 20th September 2022 as utterly meritless. This undignified pair should now see sense and put up and shut up.
    Case notes
    The information shared by the court prior to judgment clearly explains the details of the longstanding dispute in question.

    Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers

    Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:

    • Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?

     

    • Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?

     

    • Why were relevant mobile phone records never handed over to the authorities in spite of them potentially being useful to the search?

     

    • Why did the couple not use the babysitting service on offer in the holiday resort on the evening of 3rd May 2007 when they went out on the razzle dazzle with friends?

     

    • Why was the door to the apartment – which opened directly onto a public highway – left unlocked with three children aged under three years old alone inside?

     

    • Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?

     

    • Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?

     

    • Why did the McCanns repeatedly try to discredit the work of the sniffer dogs and their handlers?

     

     

     

    • Why have the McCanns attempted to ‘gag’ anyone who disputes their version of events – most especially Gonçalo Amaral?

     

    • Why given over £14 million has been spent on this search to date has nobody come forward with any sighting of ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann given the rewards on offer?

     

    In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in September 2022, with that sum now well in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest.