On tour

“Politics at a certain level is pop — you have to get your record on the radio for people to pay attention.” Bono is on tour with US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill in Africa this week, and has some interesting reflections on the parallels between his profession — music — and his passion — helping the world’s poorest people.  

“It will take many visits of this kind to turn it around,” Bono says in the Financial Times. “But if history is made of small increments, this could well be one of them.”