Jack Fielding

The Traitor Who Won Traitors You couldn't write it. The BBC's golden boy, Romesh Ranganathan, walks out of the castle as the winner of Celebrity Traitors with £41,500 to give to charity. He had the whole country to choose from: children's hospices, our veterans sleeping rough, cancer research, food banks run by volunteers in every town. He chose the Refugee Council. That wasn't a surprise. Romesh became the charity's Patron in September, and he's given to it before. His co-winner, Sebastian Croft, sent his half to Choose Love, a charity that used to be called Help Refugees. Two winners and £83,000, and every penny of it went to refugee causes. Julia Hartley-Brewer summed it up: the most BBC thing ever. It's prize money from a show funded by the licence fee, a fee paid by British pensioners, families and workers on pain of prosecution, and it ended up funding the very causes most of those people are fed up with. Romesh says "whatever your politics" we should agree on humanity and dignity. Fine. But where's the humanity for the veteran on the street, the pensioner choosing between heating and eating, or the British kid waiting months for cancer treatment? Charity starts at home, and at the BBC, home always seems to come last. He won a game about spotting who's secretly working against the team. Plenty of people watching will think the irony writes itself. In my eyes, putting the Refugee Council ahead of our own makes him a fitting champion of Traitors. Dan | Restore Britain