More pop-star-and-politicians news. Pete Doherty's favourite poisonous snake Johnny Borrell met up with Glenda Jackson to talk about the Make Poverty History campaign, when he joined the mass lobby of parliament calling for trade justice in London yesterday. And that's it, really. We're not sure what the Razorlight frontman said to the Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Highgate, though I can't help thinking he was preaching to the (somewhat powerless) converted.
Anyway, not to worry, because Glen Tarman from the Trade Justice Movement had something to say. Oh yes: "We urge the UK Government to respect poor countries' right to choose their own trade policies. We demand they stop pushing poor countries to open their economies through policies in the World Trade Organisation that are biased towards rich countries and their corporations. We cannot make poverty history while these policies remain."
He's right, you know. But the words 'dream on' still sadly spring to mind.