Hypocrite
'Bono is a prime example of baby-boomer good vibes - of feel-good politics tarted up with celebrity endorsement. Born in 1960, he is a pin-up for late fortysomething, early fiftysomething urbanites of a vaguely Left-wing bent.
That is, they feel they should be Left-wing, though they may not live out their principles in their spending habits. It is a very Islington state of mind. Bono, for instance, is fantastically extravagant. He is an enthusiastic buyer of stocks and shares - he owns a hefty chunk of the New York money magazine, Forbes.
He travels the world in a bubble of executive-jet comfort, spending a fortune on his little treats and fancies and racking up tens of thousands of air miles. Here is a man worth hundreds of millions who has a villa in the South of France, an Italian palazzo looking over the briny near Dublin and a multi-million-pound penthouse in Manhattan. And yet Bono's message to the Tory conference, as ever, was a homily about the poor and neglected of Africa.
If he feels that strongly, why doesn't he cough up some more of his own fortune?'
- Quentin Letts, 'Why do politicians - including sadly, the Tories this week - fawn over Bono, a smug hypocritical, whining, tax dodging Irish mountebank?'
That is, they feel they should be Left-wing, though they may not live out their principles in their spending habits. It is a very Islington state of mind. Bono, for instance, is fantastically extravagant. He is an enthusiastic buyer of stocks and shares - he owns a hefty chunk of the New York money magazine, Forbes.
He travels the world in a bubble of executive-jet comfort, spending a fortune on his little treats and fancies and racking up tens of thousands of air miles. Here is a man worth hundreds of millions who has a villa in the South of France, an Italian palazzo looking over the briny near Dublin and a multi-million-pound penthouse in Manhattan. And yet Bono's message to the Tory conference, as ever, was a homily about the poor and neglected of Africa.
If he feels that strongly, why doesn't he cough up some more of his own fortune?'
- Quentin Letts, 'Why do politicians - including sadly, the Tories this week - fawn over Bono, a smug hypocritical, whining, tax dodging Irish mountebank?'
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