ratsonjulia

since the invasion of Iraq began, I've been checking out the British press (well, the Guardian & the BBC, mostly), because most of the American coverage seemed (& seems) a bit on the cheap&sleazy side, & came across a few interesting stories about George Galloway early one, & then nothing until a day or two ago.

anyway he is an MP from Scotland (currently suspended) who was (& is) pretty vociferous in his opposition to the whole damn crooked situation (I think he wrote in an article that it was "complete & utter bullshit", but I'm not sure) & at one point spoke to an Arab television station that British Soldiers would be heeding a higher call by refusing to be America's lapdogs & washing their hands of the bloody mess that it'll surely turn out to be.

this did not go over well, & there were even some calls in the House to dust off some long-disused laws covering the Execution of Traitors.

then, there was some rather suspisciously convenient letters found by a journalist (in an area in which virtually every other scrap of paper had been incinerated) fingering him as being on the dole for Hussein.

this was, as they say, pure dosh & he sued.

then there wasn't much about him until, as I said, a couple of days ago, when there was a little story in the BBC about a break in at his house. it sort of stuck in my mind, coming so soon after the whole David Kelley (the scientist who slashed his wrists last week after testifying about WMD, unlikelyhood of.)

anyway Zoe Williams had a similar notion.

(unrelated--kind of,this from rockalltimes)
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in other news, I'm going to SLC tommorrow for a couple of days.