U2’s surprise EP, Days Of Ash, opens with Bono declaring through a loud hailer effect: “You have the right to remain silent, or not.” It’s a bold statement from a cultural figure who was slammed for accepting the US presidential Medal of Freedom in the middle of a US-supported slaughter in Palestine, and whose statement on Gaza – seven months after Joe Biden placed that blue ribbon around his neck – felt unnecessarily garbled in a context that demanded clarity. These instances are of course not the totality of Bono’s activism nor political activity. Yet while one’s musical career is...