I have spent much of my journalistic career encountering fake celebrity: bit part actors who have made it to a couple of episodes of The Bill or Coronation Street, and whose theatre programme biographies say: Theatre includes....followed by the titles of the only two obscure shows they have ever been in twixt having to wash dishes for a living.
But then there is true celebrity - and true goodness. Both manifest quite clearly in the visit to Liverpool by South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The Centre for War and Peace Studies at Hope University is to be named after this great man who was in the vanguard of the fight against apartheid.
He has an undoubtedl spiritual presence. Desmond Tutu is quite simply as good as humanity gets.
And he is a celebrity, in that people can justifiably celebrate bothhis life and achievements.
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