Bono, put your big money where your big mouth is

News that U2 singer Bono’s shares in Facebook are now worth close to $1bn should cheer the hearts of the world’s poorest. After all, was it not the tax-avoiding Bono who has campaigned to have us ordinary taxpayers give endless amounts of our money to be stolen by the leaders of the world’s�most corrupt countries? Well, now Bono can afford to give a few hundred million of his own money to help the poor. In fact he can afford to solve the hunger�in the Horn of Africa.

So will we see the garrulous Bono stepping forward to put his own big money where his big mouth is? I rather doubt it.