Bring those strands together in a Sunday Times leader comment. We didn't, like France, have a helicopter carrier in the region and do nothing. Britain should take the lead in finding new ways to react more speedily. Meanwhile, the South African press is leading on the Pretoria summit coordinating present and future disaster planning between South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique - and Britain, strangely, doesn't rate a mention. Television needs pictures.
Newspapers have to relate to the lives of their readers.
And the only consistent information you can be sure of picking up on a hotel cable TV or from the newsstand in the lobby anywhere in the world is the closing prices in Japan, Frankfurt, Wall Street and points west. London won't become Rescue HQ International, with Paddy at the helm. The misery of Mozambique looks different from country to country and continent to continent. There is no common understanding or reaction. Not without the people who live in it, there isn't.