Batting aggressively off a sticky wicket

Happy New Year, bastards. I must say that the proprietor of Lenin's Tomb is doing a pretty fair job of pretending that George Galloway's stint on Celebrity Big Brother isn't a massive honking fucking embarrassment to everyone who backed him in RESPECT. If I was a member of a political party that sold newspapers, I wouldn't do this sort of thing half as well. It's kind of like watching Robin Smith taking the fight to the Windies, slashing boldly away at Courtney Walsh without a helmet, in the knowledge that they're about to bring a spinner on.

Update Although the fans of Christopher Hitchens are hardly in a position to pass comment.