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‘No rear view mirror in this car’: Bob Geldof on love, loss and lockdown

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Admin

The Boomtown Rats’ new album, their first in 36 years, coincides with a BBC documentary on the band

Bob Geldof doesn’t do nostalgia. Now 68, the Irish musician and activist says that he has lived his life refusing to look back. “I have the point of view that there’s no rear view mirror in this car,” he says.

So it might seem surprising that he not only agreed to the BBC making a documentary, Citizens of Boomtown, about his first band, The Boomtown Rats, but has also spent the last year actively engaged in reliving his past through it.

Bob Geldof’s firm’s use of tax haven is legal, but the system hurts African nations

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Admin

Private equity company 8 Miles channels funds through Mauritius in a ‘depressingly routine’ arrangement

At their closest point, Europe and Africa are just eight miles apart. That’s the inspiration for the name of Sir Bob Geldof’s private equity firm, 8 Miles, set up to channel investment into successful businesses in Africa.

But we learned last week that 8 Miles’ cash travels considerably further than this on its way from one continent to the other. It has established a cluster of companies in Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, which funds pass through.