Skipper

I liked Simon Hoggart's piece on George Galloway in the Guardian today so hereby post a bit of it:
'Triumphant in his own eyes, perhaps. Yet, while it is true that he is generally loathed on all sides of the House, there is a sneaking admiration of his performance this week in front of 'the world's greatest deliberative body' as the United States Senate styles itself, apparently without irony. We may be a minor power these days, and nobody much bothers to follow our debates, but when it comes to bombastic brow-beating, hectoring, bellowing, rant and cant, plus half truths delivered with the weight and effect of stone tablets hurled at senators, then your traditional British MP is still a world beater.'