Of boats and yachts

It has been said by many, its not those in boats (crossing the Channel) you should be angry about, but those in yachts.

Luxury yachts.

Let me say right way, that any accident involving a potential or actual loss of life is a tragedy, but then something so obvious happens, I feel I have to comment.

Mike Lynch, who helped establish Cambridge Neurodynamics and co-founded the firm Autonomy, and Jonathan Bloomer, the chairman of Morgan Stanley Bank International are bothmissing after the luxury yacht there and their families were in capsized during a storm near Scicily. Hope is fading that they will be found alive in air pockets on the sunken yacht.

This has "live" coverage on the BBC website and front page stories on most of the right wing press, and yet compare this to the loss of life, or a sunken raft in the Channel carrying asylum seekers.

It is clear that not every life has the same value, in the mids of Governments or the media.

Bear this coverage in mind next time there is an accident in the Channel involving non-billionaires.

Message ends.