Comic Fucking Relief

Red Nose Day: I'm not bloody laughing

So it's that time of year when lots of celebrities do things of varying levels of amusement and people around the country do really stupid things, like sit in baths of baked beans to highlight the number of starving people in the world. Pretty insulting, haphazard way of raising money, but each to their own.

I, personally, don't do anything for comic relief. If I were to do something, though, I would try cut out the middle man and buy a gun and put it in a boat and send it to whichever despotic African regime will get propped up this year.

I think there are many worthwhile charities out there but I have never wanted to give money to these charities which allow people like Mugabe to stay in power.

Trade I'm all for. And Democracy. Bring it on.

But aid to countries where the leaders live in luxury whilst the people live in squalid conditions just seems to me to be letting the nasty bastards get away with it.

But hey, that's just my view and I'm in an even worse mood than usual.

And charitable giving's all about making the person who gives the £2 feel better, really.

Bah, humbug.