It must be celebrity activist day or something. Not only is Madonna spearheading a charity campaign, but now actress Charlize Theron has been appointed U.N Peace Messenger - a title roughly about as vague as 'International Niceness Monitor' or 'Worldwide Hug Distributor'.

Of those, there might be certain people reading this - horrible, cynical types - who would question the validity of celebrities becoming involved in complex geopolitical matters, and would rather international issues were handled by those who, y'know, actually have a clue what they're talking about.

 

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Theron:
"You have used your voice, compassion and special relationship with the public to create a better world."

 

Evidently this is a man who has never seen Mighty Joe Young or Aeon Flux - Theron movies so bad that they don't so much 'create a better world' as leave the audience of the verge of throwing themselves off a building in order to escape this one.

 

She'll be joined by some notable company in her new position - fellow actors George Clooney and Michael Douglas are also Peace Messengers (because remember, kids, nothing stops an African civil war like the involvement of Gordon Gecko).

 

Here's an idea: why not make Johnny Borrell the next appointment? Like most celebrities, he probably won't have any idea with regard to the issues he's talking about, but if any man can unite the whole planet in contemptuous loathing of a single person, it's that horse-faced twat.

 

A bright dawn's a-comin', people …