I am not particularly religious, but some of these comments remind me of a bible story from my childhood. Two days bfeore he was betrayed and killed, a woman came to Jesus as he met with his disciples. She brought a jar of expensive perfume, which she poured over his head as he sat there. Some of the disciples were horrified - "That could have been sold and the money given to the poor" they said. But Jesus told them not to criticise her "The poor you have with you always, but you will not always have me."
The publicity that Joe Lycett bought by doing as he said he would and shredding that money could not have been bought by giving £10,000 to charity - and it would have been a drop in the ocean of global poverty. It could not have been achieved by shredding Monopoly money either. If he did destroy his own money, he demonstrated clearly how important the issue is to him. I hope that he did do so, and that some eager beaver isn't going to produce evidence of it being just a stupid stunt.