public figure

Diggs’s flamboyant colleague from Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell, loomed larger as a public figure, but, Mr. Orr argues, on Capitol Hill the quiet Diggs “accomplished far more” than his black fellow representative.

Self-exoneration through false moral equivalence by public figures is as old as time itself.

Mr Linehan was arrested by five officers on 1 September after arriving on a flight from the US, sparking a backlash from some public figures and politicians.

And it said it was in "direct dialogue with public figures and content owners to gather feedback on what controls they want" with a view to reflecting this in subsequent changes.

He described Mr Lennon as a "public figure" whose views are "well known" and asked what the justification was for the police's use of "coercive powers".