Saturday, October 01, 2005
Frank on Bono's hat
posted by John Davies at 5:04 PM
Bit daunting speaking just before the very experienced Frank Field MP this morning but he was very nice to me about it afterwards. Occasion: a public meeting organised by our local Church Action on Poverty group, somewhat rhetorically titled 'Have We Beaten Poverty?' My role: warm-up act. In a talk encouraging depth over rhetoric in anti-poverty campaigning [see here] I put in a slightly vague dig about Bono; which Frank masterfully followed-up with a biting description of said pop-poverty-preacher's practice of sending his hat around the world, first-class, by plane....
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