Follies

Seventy-three-year-old rock millionaire Dave Gilmour sells his guitar collection for £17 million (with the 'legendary' Black Strat alone fetching £3.13 million, for which sum you could buy several decent Strads) and, inspired by the testimony of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, donates the proceeds to a 'climate change' charity whose avowed aim is to stop any more coal-fired power stations being built (even in China – good luck with that), thereby ensuring that the world's poor stay that way. Did ever a single news story so perfectly illustrate the various follies of the age?