We're on the same wavelength.
My only point - regarding Jim Gamble's piece - is that the lessons regarding better practice may well be mutual.
I agree ... I think the only way such a working relationship could be maintained would be a mutual respect and I imagine one side has as much to contribute as the other.
I think, as noted in James Murray's article, everything keeps on coming back to issues which were overlooked by the initial investigation and the concentration on the assumption that there was no need to look further than Madeleine's parents and their friends.
Nothing exemplifies that more than the cursory attention given the available information on the telephone calls, with as can be seen from the files, the exception of Robert Murat and his associates and the McCanns and their friends.
Even so, I doubt if a public inquiry either here or in Portugal would cast any more light on that since the PJ and SY have already gone into the matter in fine detail.