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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Josh Halliday and Michael Goodier

Talkshows, TikTok, Gaza: George Galloway and Rochdale, 100 days on

George Galloway gives an interview to a TV station in Wardleworth, Rochdale: he wears a black hat, black overcoat and blue shirt, and is facing a cameraman who wears a blue anorak and is seen from behind. He stands in front of a terrace of red-brick houses; it looks as if the weather is wet and wintry.
George Galloway, seen here campaigning during the Rochdale byelection in February, said: ‘I have the largest audience in British politics.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

George Galloway was in full flow as he addressed tens of thousands of viewers online one evening in late March.

In a five-minute monologue, the newly elected Rochdale MP dismissed what he described as the “official narrative” of the murders of the US president John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and senator Robert F Kennedy. They were, he said, “a pack of lies”.

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