Bono has an excellent piece in The New York Times calling on President Obama to live up to the promise of his Nobel Peace Prize by creating a global plan to attack

US President Barack Obama published an editorial in dozens of newspapers around the globe in advance of the G20 meeting next week in London.

It voices some opinions I wish would be expressed by our political leaders, in particular the point that

"...we have an economic, security and moral obligation to extend a hand to countries and people who face the greatest risk." "

It's an interesting read - you can check it out online here.

Congratulations to our American cousins on their choice of Barack Obama as President of the USA. Our partner campaign in the US, the ONE campaign, interviewed all the presidential candidates long before the party candidates were chosen.

So we have three videos of Barack Obama answering questions on what his administration would do about poverty overseas. It makes for really interesting viewing, and begs the question "What is our newly-elected Prime Minister planning to do?"