Tony Benn, staunch left-winger and former Labour MP came to to do a talk on behalf of the "Stop the War Campaign" on Thursday, just days after conducting his interview with Saddam Hussein. I went to watch him and he was an excellent public speaker, made some good points about Saddam Hussein, and put forward his views on why we shouldn't go to war with Iraq. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and it was well worth it. The highlights included him being told he was not allowed to smoke in Central Hall, to which he took out his pipe and lit it, and then when he received a phone call in the middle of his talk from CNN to do an interview via phone to 25m listening Americans. When they asked him where he was and he said "York", they thought he meant "New York". You just gotta love that.
In a related tidbit, here's something that was originally on the Internet and became famous from the Daily Mirror stealing it for a front page recently, just seemed germane in light of recent developments:
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"So I drink a lot, have casual sex and swear, and suddenly I'm cast as a bad boy" - Rising British star Colin Farrell on his 'angelic' lifestyle
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