Eating biscuits in Biafra

I get slagged off a lot for my views that charity begins at home - like for example should we be giving free milk in schools rather than using the money to give water to Pakistanis?

Yes I know it's a disaster, just like the Ethiopian famine, the boxing day tsunami, Biafra, the Haiti earthquake and many others. Oh, I nearly forgot - there have been disastrous mudslides in China this week as well.

But what really gets up my nose - and I don't know if you have ever thought about this - is what do the news crews eat when they are filming famines? How do they get about when they are covering floods? Should that place on the helicopter have been filled with food and water rather than a camera crew?

A prime example of this was on BBC breakfast news on Sunday morning. Pictures of some poor sod and his family standing on the roof of his crumbling mud hut surrounded by flood waters. And what are the news crew using to get out there and take these pictures? Let me think - oh yes! A boat.

And did they stop and rescue aforementioned poor sod and his family? I doubt it...