Damien

Christopher Hitchens is in no way comparable to Galloway.

He was always ideologically consistant and he didn't care if his beliefs were being advocated by the left or the right, he backed either. This is why he seemed to switch positions, not because he changed his mind but because the landscape changed and his wasn't stubbornly attached to one party.

Galloway is the opposite. He takes his positions based on solely being a contrarian. He lectures all the time about people's rights yet when it comes to the Falklands he is suddenly against self-determination, he defends undemocratic regimes because they are based in the middle east and hate the West. He is a ideological coward. Utterly unfit to be mentioned in the same group as people like Hitchens.

They hated each other by the way.