Well you can't can you, and it's right that Beckham has been called out. As I said yesterday, I imagine Joe will say he didn't really shred the £10k, and indeed he's come out and said that. I felt that shredding £10k would be stupid. Many here have disagreed, but it seems that Joe agrees with me.
When you say it's worked brilliantly, has the Qatar World Cup been cancelled? Have Qatar had to face consequences for enslaving people and working them to death?
I agree that it's good he's standing up against the likes of Qatar and all those taking the cash from Qatar, and that his stunt is a bit muddled. I just think there are better ways to get publicity than shredding (or fake shredding) money.
What comedian is going to spend £100k on a PR campaign against something another celebrity is doing? Why are you comparing what he's done with throwing money away in a different manner? There are other ways for a celebrity to draw attention to an issue, and they don't require money being...
Charity being the obvious answer. He's now going to have to defend himself against the obvious questions: if you've got £10k to burn (yeah I know), why not give it to charity? What sort of pompous twit destroys money like that, instead of giving it to those that it could benefit from it? If you...