COMMENT Charity, doffing the cap to Dr Samuel Johnson, is the last refuge of humbugs.

The pledge of billionaire Vincent Tan that he will donate the half a billion ringgit from the sale of his shares in a soccer betting business he owns to charity is a nice feint he is trying to sell the public in the hope of clearing the way to ‘goal’.

‘Goal’ here would be the mega profits he would reap from the licensing of soccer betting on the World Cup...