Here's something that might make you stop up short.
(It certainly made me stop up short, as I was on a treadmill when I first read it).
It comes courtesy of Adam Boulton in today's Sunday Times:
This week the prime minister will come up with an extra £1bn as part of the BBC’s Mental Health Week.
Eh? Hang on a minute. Just run that by me again please Adam...:
This week the prime minister will come up with an extra £1bn as part of the BBC’s Mental Health Week.
To repeat myself: Eh?
The BBC runs a Mental Health Week and David Cameron hands over £1bn (of taxpayers' money) as a result.
What's that all about?
To be clear: Mental health issues seriously need to be raised up the nation's priority list, but...
What's with the PM forking over such a large amount of money apparently just because the BBC is currently running a week-long campaign on the issue?
That's quite something, isn't it?
