Why shouldn't actors be allowed to express compassion, Michael Buerk? | Anne Perkins
In a cold, hard world I cheer every voice raised on behalf of the disempowered " even if it's a 'feather-bedded thesp' like Benedict CumberbatchPoor old Michael Buerk. He seems to have been reduced to eking out that tiny, inflation-proofed final-salary BBC pension by becoming a full-time grumpy old man. The old Africa hand who more than 30 years ago moved the world with his reports on the Ethiopian famine nowadays ve…