For minutes, perhaps even hours at this point, members of households across the globe have not had tea. This has to change.

Tea is a basic human right, and depriving these people of such a vital, warming, delicious beverage is a travesty the likes of which has not been seen since the great Yorkshire shortage earlier this year.

The time has come to make a stand and call those whose turn it is to make tea to sit idle no longer, to reach out and provide the life-giving nectar that is tea to those who need it most.