Developments today kick on the debate started by Iain Dale on the way the Madeleine McCann story is developing. From the media convicting Robert Murat in the absence of any concrete evidence we know have our next Prime Minister getting involved with an offer of help to the family.
It is difficult to see exactly what help the Chancellor of the Exchequer in this country can offer in the hunt for a missing girl in Portugal. Assuming the best of intentions on the part of Mr Brown and this wasn't just a shameless stunt to promote his touchy feely side then this incident is a further example of the emotional tyranny there now is around these type of events.
The roots of this can be traced back to when Princess Di died. Few among the public actually knew her but heaven help anyone who admitted that while they were sympathetic in the same way they would be to any family who had lost a loved one they didn't feel any huge loss themselves.
The Madeleine McCann incident is taking on the same properties. There is now huge pressure on everyone, public figures in particular, to not only sympathise from afar but to become emotionally involved.
It is verging on mass hysteria and is a depressing reflection of modern Britain.
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