Outside, as a new economic recovery day dawns, the water meters are going in. Is this how we cherish the children of the nation in 2015, by measuring miserably their consumption of The Oil Of Life Itself?

Today, a message from the NGO, Concern, relating to the disastrous situation, in Sudan, dropped through my letterbox.

When the crisis hit in 2008, the Social Protection budget was first in the firing line.