I’m consumed by politics, particularly Middle Eastern politics, and I’ve committed my working life to them and fighting to gain justice for the Palestinians. But I’m fascinated by international politics and social struggle
around the globe and the effort to stop rampant globalisation and the creep of neoconservatism. I’m also a bit of a historian on the Labour movement and the party which used to represent it.
I also have a twice-weekly, two- hour radio show on TalkSport so I don’t get a lot of time to pursue many other interests. I’m a passionate football fan,
Manchester United – I actually scored a goal at Old Trafford! – and Glasgow Celtic, although I still carry a torch for Dundee United, my hometown team. They’re known as The Arabs, so who else could I follow?
When I have an hour or two to spare I try to catch a movie (I’m a bit of a De Niro fan) or curl up with a book, usually a biography of a politician. My own
book, the Fidel Castro Handbook, is out now. Click below:
音樂
I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan, a Dylanologist. I have everything he has ever written, sung or uttered, and I’ve seen him many times in concert. I could go on Mastermind on Dylan and, in fact, very nearly did. I like lots of bands - even a few contemporary ones like The Killers! - but I’m afraid I can’t get my ears around rap and hip-hop although I keep trying. I don’t know enough about classical music or opera to bluff, so I steer away from it, although a couple of my staff are opera buffs. I’m resolved to take some tuition from them – when I have the time, perhaps in 2012!
電影
They say that politics is showbiz for the ugly – but as I always say, what would I know about that?! I try to catch the latest movies when I have the time, which isn’t often. I’m speaking at a public meeting almost every night – more than 2000 of them since 9/11 and hundreds of thousands of miles racked up – so it’s difficult to slip into a theatre for an enthralling couple of hours. My all-time favourites are the Godfather films and I know the lines better than the cast and often slip one or two into speeches.
電視
My day opens and end with news on TV, Sky, CNN or the BBC. Because of my schedule it’s impossible to view much else. So I’m lost on Lost and a casualty over ER. All of the soaps pass me by, I’m afraid. If there’s an important
documentary, or a Question Time, I’ll tape it. Okay, I’ll get someone else to tape it because technology isn’t my forte. But I always make time to watch the big football matches on Sky but if I have an unmissable meeting I’ll have a friend text me the running score on my mobile phone.
書籍
There is always a book open beside my bed, usually a political biography and I try to read a few pages before sleep. I know I should read more fiction but I’m afraid I have to prioritise my reading. I receive hundreds of emails every day so a lot of my reading is dealing with the postbag. A joy for me is to escape to my house in Portugal – it’s modest and mortgaged! - turn off the phone and read the latest biography.
偶像
Almost too many to name. Che Guevara is top of the list, closely followed by Fidel Castro. I’ve met Fidel several times – even going midnight swimming with him – and I’ve quizzed him closely about Che and his answers haven’t
disappointed. I have lots of sporting heroes, the 1967 Celtic side which won the European Cup (all of them born within a 30 miles radius of Glasgow) and the late George Best is high in the pantheon.
關於我： I am the Respect Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow. I was elected in May 2005, overturning a 10,000 New Labour majority; this was after one of Labour's dirtiest-ever election campaigns. A year earlier I was expelled from the Labour
party over my opposition to the war on Iraq.
I grew up in a Labour family in Dundee in Scotland. One of my earliest memories is of my Dad getting shaved and dressed in his best for a trade union meeting. He was an engineer who retrained as a teacher; sadly he died 10 years ago.
I joined the Labour party at 13 and was a member for more than 30 years until they threw me out over my opposition to the war. Without blowing my own trumpet too loudly, everything I said about the war and its consequences in the House of Commons at the time has come to pass, as even my enemies admit.
I left school at 16 and became a worker at the Michelin tyre factory but of course politics was my real career. I became a full-time organiser for Labour aged 23 and three years later I became the youngest ever chair of the party in Scotland. I became involved in Palestinian politics in the 1970s after a long talk with a young Palestinian student and I vowed then that I’d devote the rest
of my life to their cause. I visited Beirut shortly after, in 1973, and I’ve been in Lebanon and the wider Arab world countless times since. Indeed, I visited Beirut hours after the recent peace pact came into being and broadcast my radio show – the mother of all radio shows! – from the Lebanese capital.
Every day of my life is crowded, which is the way I like it. I don’t drink so perhaps I can fit in more than other people.
I see or talk to my children and grandchildren Lucy, Zein, Jay, Sean and Lola every day.
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A personal message from George Galloway MP.
We all of us, me included, use this site for many fun and pleasurable things, finding a partner, or just getting a date! Planning an event or an outing. But THIS is an EMERGENCY. The Palestinians in Gaza are being massacred and beseiged and the British government is doing NOTHING about it.
PLEASE urgently phone your MP on 0207 219 3000, ask for them by name and if they are not there leave the strongest possible message that you DEMAND government action to lift the siege. Or e-mail them in the same terms. All MPs e-mails are formatted the same way. E.g. if your MP's name was David Green then his email address would be greend@parliament.uk
PLEASE PLEASE do this urgently. The Palestinians are dying alone and abandoned.
Thank you sincerely
George Galloway MP
REAL DEAL INTERVIEW WITH DISPATCHES PRODUCER
SUSPENSION PRESS CONFERENECE, JULY 2007
PARLIAMENT, JANUARY 2007
ON IRAQ AND BEING SUSPENDED FROM THE LABOUR PARTY
PREVIEW OF SINGLE: WAR (WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?)
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Dear Mr.Galloway,PLEASE ! listen to the musicians in my friendslist,just listen to them,listen to NOBODY else,they all talk shit,we save lifes,children,we are the solution TO ALL PROBLEMS,for get the rest,we kill motherfuckers,I hate torture,I hate war,I'm THE ONLY ONE who can do this job here,so please listen to me !
Enjoy your life,peace.
I hate wars and army,they run into death,live and let die,fire it up.
Will you join with me in boycotting Israeli goods ? Sign a petition to the UN demanding action against the Israeli gov. Come on now Georgie boy where is your voice, you've been very quiet recently, we need your help getting organised, why don't you answer us. Peace,love and happiness Pat xx
Dear Mr.Galloway,I'm the only one who can solve your problems,the only one,trust me,listen to the combined lyrics of my friendslist,english,simple,these motherfuckers don't get put down your weapons of destruction,hostility towards the opposition.
Whits up Geordie bhoy ? Dae ye never answer yer pals ? Ahve been waitin' fur ages tae hear even a smitherin' o' a comment fae ye, come visit my site and meet some good auld socialists, still here fightin' in the trenches no fae the tables o' fancy hotels. Pat xxx
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered." -- Archibald Macleish
Hi Mr.Galloway,I'm the correctest,your only true friend,the combined lyrics in my friendslist save the world and the children,put down your weapons of destruction is TOO SIMPLE and a must,hostility towards the opposition,these motherfuckers DON'T GET IT,i live that untill I die.
I'm your best friend,I want nothing from you,I just tried to help and to end the war, but they don't get it,even if it is SO SIMPLE (live and let live,put down your weapons),you can trust me,why shouldn't you,there is no threat,live and let live,your speech touched my heart,I viewed it a milion times,cause I feel the same,I gave everything i could to end the war and a hundred thousand people paid with their lifes,cause NOBODY listens to me,destroy all weapons,put down your weapons of destruction,there is a "better" place,love would take them "there",fire it up.
Don't blame me,I'm the correctest,just a musician,it's not a crime to be innocent,to save the world and children,that's not a crime.
Hope anti-war folks in the USA are allowed to hear George Galloway speak more regularly on the U.S. public television evening news show each evening in the fall of 2009-- after the U.S. public television stations air a documentary about Joan Baez in October 2009.
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