Battle of the Sexes; the Rematch; the Arrival of Bob Geldof As a Sober Champion May Have Given the Men's Movement a New Legitimacy After the Flour Bombing and Superhero Stunts. But Beneath the Bids for Sympathy a Bitter Extremism Refuses to Go Away. Jenifer Johnston Reports

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Twenty years ago next month Bob Geldof launched the crusade against famine in Ethiopia, which galvanised a generation. Today Geldof is still an articulate and passionate campaigner, but his cause is very different.

When Geldof shared his views on marriage and children on Channel 4 last week he became the acceptable face of an emerging movement more used to operating on the fringes.

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Battle of the Sexes; the Rematch; the Arrival of Bob Geldof As a Sober Champion May Have Given the Men's Movement a New Legitimacy After the Flour Bombing and Superhero Stunts. But Beneath the Bids for Sympathy a Bitter Extremism Refuses to Go Away. Jenifer Johnston Reports

When the former singer with the Boomtown Rats calmly and rationally dissected the flaws in a legal system that separated men from their children after the breakdown of marriages, he did infinitely more for fathers' rights than the series of highly publicised stunts which have recently grabbed the headlines. Many women liked what he said. Critics liked what he said. Men were grateful for what he said.

While the purple flour bombs and Batman at Buckingham Palace did little to win the public over to the cause espoused by the Fathers 4 Justice group, Geldof...

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