Who knows?

This article in the Guardian caught my eye today:

Home Office fury at Carr tabloid tales

While I understand that the Soham murders were, and clearly still are, a very emotive subject, I do find it slightly sad that a woman who did no more than lie to protect the man she loved is being hounded by the press and certain members of the general public. She is not a murderer. She is not a threat to anyone. Yet she lives in fear of her life because certain members of the public deem her to be evil, fueled by the tabloid media who are more concerned with selling papers, and hence sensationalising everything, than they are with responsible journalism. Yes she was wrong to lie and she would no doubt accept that. But those girls did not die because of her. Their murderer is locked away.

Thousands and thousands of pounds of taxpayers money is having to be spent protecting Maxine Carr from vigilantes, money that could be better spent actually trying to catch dangerous criminals. Why can't the tabloid press let the woman get on with her life?

Great to see Jack Straw taking the fight to the rest of Europe over the EU budget:

Straw goes on EU budget offensive

And similar points raised in the Sunday Times:

Britain's rebate haunts European negotiations