   Live 8… Opportunity or moronfest?  The usual collection of
fabulously rich but economically illiterate show biz twits are
going to assemble for Bob Geldof’s Live 8 event timed to
coincide with the impending G8 conference in Scotland on 6-8
July. Now God knows lampooning rock ‘n’ roll’s A-list
‘idiocracy’ is fun and easy sport, but I must confess that I
have always regarded Geldof as an intellectual cut above your
typical gormless entertainer, so perhaps a closer look at what
is going on is in order.  Live8 is going to be a freak show,
that is for sure, surrounded by pro-poverty activists (by which
I mean people who argue for a world structured in a way in which
more people will be a great deal poorer) such as identity
obsessed feminists, pro-Saddam communists, eco-luddites and all
manner of other folks with very strange ideas about the nature
of reality.  Yet unlike Live Aid, the objective of which was to
raise money to mitigate a clear and present humanitarian
disaster in Africa, Live 8 aims to raise poli