Meanwhile, there’s a new blaze of publicity suggesting police in South Africa have mishandled the investigation into the ‘honeymoon murder’ of Anni Dewani, offering reduced sentences to the killers after they implicated her ‘madly in love’ husband, Shrien,­ thus switching the blame away from crime-infested South Africa.


At the same time, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ­-  toast of the fashionable Left - suffers a drop in his share value after new reports about his seedy sexual activities. It’s reported that he and his chief supporter at The Guardian are not on speakers.

Even the McCanns, who got newspapers to apologise for doubting what they said about their missing daughter, Madeleine, are on the ‘down’ public esteem escalator after it was reported that British police helped Portuguese colleagues build a case against them.

In the instant world of internet, Facebook and Twitter commentary - faithfully repeated by the Press and TV - you are up one moment and down the next. On a rollercoaster - as everyone always says when questioned on TV about how they feel.