Geldof or Bono? Who’s the bigger ars*hole?

For some years now I’ve been assiduously preparing for a dotage spent randomly swearing at people on the TV. BBC Four gave me plenty of opportunity to practise over the weekend. They showed a flawed but very interesting documentary on the history of Irish music. Martin Hayes, a man who has recorded some utterly indispensable [...]

Sir Bono – tax dodging gombeen gobshite

What a lowlife, toadying, tax dodging, multi-millionaire west Brit arsehole that man is! Here’s what the band’s website says “The British Ambassador to Ireland, Mr David Reddaway, announced today that Bono is being awarded an honorary knighthood…We understand that Bono is ‘very flattered’ to be honoured, particularly if the honour – like its French counterpart [...]