Kevin Blowe on how allegations of extremism are used to discredit social movements in the United Kingdom. So where on Earth do we go from here? The socialist filmmaker explains how his anti-austerity politics translates to the big screen. European Commission gives boost to Vietnamese timber launderers.
A treaty signed by the European Commission legitimized a Vietnamese government agency that facilitated the theft of roughly Chagossians urge caution over UN legal win.
Corbyn vs the nation. Jeremy Corbyn is an internationalist. But the British economy is hardwired to extract profit from the Global South. Looking through Five Eyes. Phil Miller reports. Brexit and the dark arts. Steve Topple fears not. Will Brexit backfire with lawsuits? Nick Dowson asks if Brexit will expose the UK to being sued.
Mike Leigh on class war and political hope. Ahead of his upcoming film, Peterloo, Mike Leigh speaks to Sam Thompson about cinema, history and politics. What we saw at The World Transformed.
Freezing arms sales to Israel is just a first step. Meaningful solutions to Palestine require taking on the arms trade, Husna Rizvi reports. An anti-imperialist Labour Party? What can Corbyn bring to the table? Richard Seymour asks. The UK must stop aid to failing private schools. How did we get to the point where two African countries are trying to shut down our aid funded schools? Nick Dearden asks. These latest announcements look like a modern-day scramble for Africa, Kate Osamor writes.
How porn monopolies will feast on UK age verification laws. Jillian York interviews Erika Lust about the consequences of proposed laws which aim to protect children from porn.
Mixed Media: Books. Brexit looming casts shadow over EU whistleblower protections. Naomi Colvin weighs the pros and cons of the EU draft Directive on whistleblower protection and wonders how Brexit will impact A new popular movement is born — and it might just halt a Brexit disaster. Everywhere George goes, trouble follows, as sure as eggs are eggs which is fine; just don't bring moustaches into it.
The classic case was at War on Want, which he raised from an unknown outfit to a major charity. At the same time, he was accused of fiddling his expenses and philandering. While an independent auditor cleared him of dishonesty, he admitted to coming away from a business trip to Greece with "carnal knowledge" of another woman, despite being married at the time.
Not a happy marriage, then? He is always being libelled, too. I hate being hated, lashed, traduced. The forgeries, he says, are evidence of a dirty-tricks campaign. He is impenetrably confident - but what, I ask, if it does go against him?
He'll be finished, politically and financially. I know I've done nothing to be ashamed of. We're purring up the Edgware Road now Born and brought up in Dundee, his father worked in an engineering factory. I ask if he still feels working-class, with his Merc and his salary and his houses - which he now shares with his second wife, a Palestinian scientist. It's how you relate to other people, how awkward you feel when you kiss them Are you absolutely confident about what to do with all that cutlery?
Do you switch over when the opera comes on? Have you ever been to ballet? I say that a good test is having a cleaner. Middle-class people are good at underpaying and bossing them, but working-class people aren't, no matter how wealthy they might have become. He agrees: "I can't bear the thought of somebody being given orders to clean things in my house. I ask George to describe his politics in one word. Although I'm not as left wing as you think.
I believe life begins at conception, and therefore unborn babies have rights. I think abortion is immoral. Well, I say, better the unborn unwanted child than the born unwanted one. I have to believe that the collection of cells has a soul. A two-up, two-down shared with Tony Blair, Charles Moore, Julie Burchill and a cleaner who demands a lot of direction? We stop at a motorway services. Whatever his motives, whatever his actions, George Galloway is rarely less than sensational, newsworthy and controversial.
Gorgeous George is the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary political figures of our times. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. Published January 24th by Politico's Publishing first published January More Details Original Title. George Galloway. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about Gorgeous George , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. I know him slightly and last spoke to him in the back streets of east London: a tanned, brooding presence, black suit and shirt, trade mark beard, smoking a small cigar, as I recall, in the back seat of what was I think a battered black Merc.
I do not warm to him but he is an extraordinary man, and one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers — perhaps the most gifted of them all — that I have heard in Westminster in 30 years of listening to some pretty dull stuff. Put it another way: when he went to Washington to face a Congressional hearing about his somewhat fawning relationship with Saddam Hussein's regime I emailed a chum at the Washington Post — this time more presciently.
He certainly did and you can still catch his powerfully articulate performance on YouTube — along with his pussycat antics in Channel 4's Big Brother house. Well, that's Gorgeous George for you: modest, self-effacing, not a bit bombastic, ho ho. It helps explain why, for all his talents, he's never thrived in major party politics. He's not a team player, but a maverick who both outshines the colleagues and infuriates them in countless ways.
I spent yesterday afternoon in Birmingham listening to Michael Heseltine and others debating the pros and cons of elected mayors — plenty of scepticism in Brum and nearby Coventry — and Galloway is exactly the kind of one-off who might make a brilliant elected mayor — a charismatic leader who could put a city Bradford?
Here's Galloway's Wiki CV. He was first elected an MP when he defeated Roy Jenkins in the university seat of Glasgow Hillhead in , was expelled for his stance on the Iraq war in and later won Bethnal Green and Bow for Respect in Except that I'm not sure that Galloway has the discipline to do the hard graft or would be trusted enough.
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