5 Feet of Fury

Julie Burchill prefers American billionaires to the UK rich

She writes:

And now Bono, champion of the poor, has moved a good deal of the business of the ‘ethical’ fashion house run by him and his wife, and set up to “encourage trade with Africa and celebrate the possibilities and people of the continent” from said Africa to China.

No doubt to celebrate the possibilities of the sweatshops, long hours and low pay that’s such a good look right now. (…)

Think of that stat that over here, the poorest people give the greatest proportion to charity, dwindling as one moves up the tax brackets; in the US, far more laudably and logically, the reverse is true.