All of which might be true, Richard, but while we wait for governments to become perfect and the state to take full responsibility there are children suffering.
Comic Relief clearly provides an outlet for all sorts of people to give money to help those children - it provides a few laughs, a lot of good feeling and it brightens up a difficult time.
I was very moved yesterday. I work some of the week with children out of mainstream education, some of whom have had dreadful experiences with adults and other children. The small group of children yesterday did a sponsored walk into central Newport, carrying collecting tins and dressed in PJs (and red noses, of course) and raised over £450.
I'm not going to let my political consciousness get in the way of thinking that it was a very, very good thing to have done.

Anne