Tit-beating and the British press

The Mirror has finally lost patience with the Portuguese detectives investigating the abduction of three-year-old Madeleine McCann. "CLUELESS", it splashes, listing "ten major blunders". In the absence of further clues about Madeleine's whereabouts - British and Portuguese police are now drawing up a list of known paedophiles who have travelled to the Algarve recently, according to the Times - the tabloids engage in what the Independent's Deborah Orr memorably calls "feminine tit-beating".