Gorgeous George described Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as "seeing themselves as Lennon and McCartney when they are actually the Burke and Hare of third world development, stealing the corpses and dancing on the graves of the poor".

George's bombast earned him a (grand)standing ovation from the several hundred people who had crawled out far too early on a Sunday morning to hear him - and Sami Ramadani, Hisham Chenayem, Rose Gentle and others - at the Plenary Session on "Resisting Imperialism, Resisting War" at Edinburgh's Usher Hall.