If people didn't know malawi was poor before this then they are either incalculably thick or weren't interested in the first place.

If the latter is true, then reading and unending deluge of articles about madonna's problems is unlikely to change their attitude, and when this episode is over they will all go back to not caring.

The only articles I have seen on this issue have been about Madonna, and the issue of celebs adopting babies. This thread is about madonna and celebs adopting babies.

At no point have I seen the media, madonna or this thread turn round and start to discuss the issue of poverty in malawi.

That discussion remains the domain of relief workers and "loony" political activists.

I know a few relief workers, and I know which celebrities they feel gratitude towards for their help in the third world.

Joanna Lumley is one. But you didn't know that, because when the camera's turn up, she points them at the suffering around her. Whenn the journalists start asking questions, she refers them to the experts ie the locals and the relief workers.

On the hitlist are people like robbie wiliams and martine mccutcheon - and Madonna.

Why? because the story always ends up being about them and what they have experienced and how they have reacted, and the issue becomes sidelined in hhe blink of an eye.

When Robbie went to mozambique the issue was his depression. When Martine went to Ethiopia with water aid (all expenses paid) she went home having done nothing because the hotel wasn't up to scratch and it was just generally too hot and uncomfortable.

Madge is a Narcissist - iie self serving and self absorbed. Don't be fooled.

Try and see beyond loyalties here and tell me what has been brought to light other than the question of Madonna and celebs adopting babies.

PS 3,000,000 doesn't buy a baby, it buys public approval, cos of her work for "chariddee"