Profile of Bob Geldof: Maximum Bob

Geldof is shrewd: he has been remarkably successful as a musician, a businessman and a campaigner. But is it simply begrudgery to question his motives?

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Name: Bob Geldof

Age: 66

Appearance: growing old rakishly

Newsworthiness: has been accused of publicity-seeking after handing back his Freedom of Dublin City in protest at Aung San Suu Kyi’s treatment of the Rohingya people

Last Sunday night, Bob Geldof made a short speech at the Abbey theatre in Dublin, where he called Donald Trump a devil. (He was introducing the annual TS Eliot lecture, to be given by Samantha Power, the ...