It has become an event as regular as the tides, or the rain: waiting until Bono says something about charity, or politics, or society, and then ragging on him as a “do-gooder, bleeding heart, liberal, earnest, attention-seeking rock star”. In my life, the number of times I’ve seen people thundering into print to huff and puff over Bono’s latest pronouncement tops the number of think-pieces I’ve seen on how M&S might be about to stage a comeback by revamping its cardies – and that’s saying something.
The latest Bono sneering came after your man was invited to address a US Senate sub-committee on how best to tackle the refugee crisis and the situation in the Middle East. Making light of a serious point, Bono suggested