“If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe.” – George Galloway, Scottish Labour deputy and leading anti-war campaigner, in the Guardian. Give him points for candor.
OBITS TO DIE FOR: “As well as being a nude model for artists, Eileen Fox undertook work as a film extra, specialising in crowd scenes that called for gummy medieval serfs. One of her last appearances was in Kevin Costner’s ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ (1991). In 1980 she took British Airways to the Court of Appeal, alleging that she had been bitten on the bottom while travelling on one of the company’s Boeing 747s to the Seychelles. ‘It was a jumbo jet and they must have been elephant fleas,’ she told reporters afterwards. She claimed that the unsightly bites cost her professional earnings as a nude model. Lord Justice Megaw and his colleagues were not convinced.” – from another priceless Telegraph obit today.
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