Do they know it's Griftmas time?

It’s 40 years since a band of English musicians (I use the term loosely!) got together to record the song “Feed the World - do they know it’s Christmas time” I remember it well and as a charity single it captured the imagine at the time and raised a vast sum at the time of $10m for Ethiopia - where the famine was at that time. Over the subsequent years, the Band Aid Trust has raised £150m in total. The single itself gets re-recorded and released from time to time.

What, you may ask, does Band Aid actually do - what are its priorities? If you pop over to their web site they succinctly explain that it is all about…

1.“Relief of hunger and poverty in Ethiopia and the neighbourhood thereof. 2) The relief of sickness and the preservation of health among people residing permanently or temporarily in Africa or such other charitable objects relating to Africa as the trustees may from time to time determine”

Turns out that at least some Ethiopians aren’t too happy about this Geldofian “White Saviour” largesse.