One of the things I find distressing is how natural disasters are reported in the media. A calamity involving 10 people in the UK, USA, Canada or Australia will be higher up the news stories and have more space or air time devoted to it in the UK than a calamity involving 100 people in eastern Europe or India or Africa.
Why is this less newsworthy? There are many people from eastern Europe now living and working in the UK - I don't know the figures so I don't know if it's less than the number of Americans or Australians. There are many people whose family originate in Africa or India - they at the very least would be interested, but shouldn't the rest of us be interested too?
Are white English speaking lives more valuable? Surely not.
