John McClure of Reverend and The Makers has said that David Beckham missed an opportunity to stop the war in Iraq by not speaking out about the invasion at the time. Perhaps Beckham was in favour of it. Some people were.
Anyway, telling The Mirror that he believes celebs have a responsibility to use their fame for good, McClure said: "If David Beckham had of spoken out about Iraq it wouldn't have happened, I honestly believe that hand on heart, or Britain certainly wouldn't have got involved. Beckham's cultural gravitas was as such in that period that if he'd have gone, 'I don't want this war in Iraq, it's an awful thing, we should not do it', it wouldn't have happened, the public would've gone mad against it. But because he kept his gob shut, and everybody else did, it happened, we sleepwalked our way there".
You know, back in the day, I used to have a degree of sympathy for the viewpoint that celebrities should leave politics to the politicians who know what they are talking about. Especially the stupid celebrities. But the more I see of the greedy, career focussed clowns that are actually running the country, the more I think that they don't know much about politics either. So come on, celebrities. Use your superpowers for good. With great power, comes great responsibility. Stan Lee said it, so it must be true.