Charities do bad

Charities used to be institutions which helped the unfortunate and the feckless. Not any more, according to the current news. They exist to pay fancy salaries to the bosses and pursue left-wing political agendas using cash raised for good causes. And, the Daily Mail has found, they have the same approach to extracting money from their victims as any criminal high-street bank. And they were warned a year ago about the tactics used by their favourite call-centre operator.
    Which leaves the rest of us asking what the Charities Commission (or whatever it’s called now) was doing whilst all this was going on? Clearly, the time is ripe for some tough legislation on the conduct of charity operators and life bans from the public and charity sectors for the management of the ones named and shamed by the Daily Mail; the British Red Cross, Oxfam, the NSPCC and Macmillan; for starters.