Bono should take his message closer to home

BONO recently tackled the Canadian prime minister, Paul Martin, for failing to live up to his foreign aid commitments.

The U2 frontman expressed his disappointment that Mr Martin had not kept an earlier promise to boost Canada's annual foreign aid contribution to 0.7% of GDP.

Bono even read out the phone number of the prime minister's office on CBC radio and urged listeners to flood his office with calls.