'We're not learning lessons from this campaign'

Stuart Hodkinson, associate editor of Red Pepper magazine, this month wrote an article criticising the Make Poverty History campaign for being too close to the government. He got in touch with Polly Curtis to offer his views on today's actions.

"In theory it's fantastic that more people are involved in global justice politics. But are the 55,000 people going to Murrayfield tonight and hundred thousand in Hyde Park for Live 8 there to make poverty history or because it's their favourite bands and a free concert?

"If you've got to entice people to come out for global justice because there's something in it for them, that's not radicalising people.