I agree. In the fifth richest economy in the world, or whatever we're supposed to be, why should we put looking after the most vulnerable in this "big society" of ours into the lottery of charity? The amount raised tonight could have been provided in a heartbeat by the Queen or Prince BigEars or by any number of non-doms or offshore cheats or big corporations or by anyone else whose philosophy of life is to rip the rest of us off, and they wouldn't have noticed a thing. Or by putting tax up by about a quarter of a pee. But all those King Croesuses are rubbing their hands, looking down on the rest of us indulgently and patronisingly, saying how wonderful it is that the hot-polloi recognise that we're all in this together. Which we are, except for them.