Within days of the fire at Notre Dame, philanthropists had promised £600 million towards its re-build.

The proposed garden bridge in London cost £42 million, only to be abandoned without a single brick being laid. To re-build the set for Eastenders will cost £87 million. A head of a Japanese company has just received a £600 million bonus.

The international space station costs billions to maintain and I recall when it was launched we were told the experiments on board could solve many of the world’s problems.

As far as I can gather, all we have learned is that being in space for a long period increases your hight.

This space station orbits the Earth every nine hours, in which time it passes over 26 countries where every minute a child dies from malnutrition or a curable disease.

Am I alone thinking we are living in a world I just don’t understand?

Andrew Brown, Irnham Road, Minehead.