Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners

Singer pens letter to director of documentary that criticises his rock concert campaignsThe singer and activist Bob Geldof has launched an impassioned defence of his lifetime's charitable work, claiming he has used his fame to persuade world leaders to take global poverty seriously and mocking anti-poverty demonstrators as "wankers dressed as clowns".His comments were penned in a 6,000-word letter to the director of a documentary that makes stinging and, Geldof believes, entirely unjustified cri...

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