Defining moment for poor nations

IT would be a travesty if violent protests against the G8 summit were to deflect the eyes of the world from vitally important campaigns aimed at ridding Africa of poverty and combating global warming.

Considering the threat which militant demonstrators pose to the popular image of the campaign, Live 8 leader Bob Geldof was absolutely right to distance the organisation from the unacceptable behaviour of hard-core anarchists.

It was crucial to make it clear that confrontations between protesters and police had nothing to do with his Make Poverty History campaign which culminated last night with a Final Push concert at Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh.