This Saturday, the front page of The Times read “Madonna digs £2.4m hole in the African ground”. The story described in painful detail how all this money had been wasted on a school project in Malawi. Not exactly value for money. The Guardian ran the same story:
“The managers of Madonna’s charity in Malawi have been ousted after they squandered $3.8m on a school that will never be built.
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