Live8 proved there is more than one way to demonstrate social solidarity, just as there is more than one group to whom we can show our support. For all the talk from France and Germany in recent weeks about the need to protect the European social model, Live8 underlined that it is more important to ‘solidarise' with land workers in poverty stricken Africa than with land owners in rural France. Strangely, the arguments that have riven the European Union over the future of the social model ...