I read a fascinating story yesterday about an 11-year-old British boy called Nic Parkes who started a community website because he was too young for work experience on his local newspapers.

Over the course of five years the site, which covered Rubery, West Midlands, (pop. 16,000) grew to 200,000 page views a year. Parkes became managing editor of a staff of 17 regular teen contributors. He even ended up sharing stories and picture leads with one of the local papers.

Last year RuberyVillage.co.uk ran an opinion piece by teenager Dom Self about the recent general election results in which Gorgeous “George” Galloway beat Labor MP Oona King:

Seeing a good Labour MP defeated by a madman is painful, particularly when he seems to have become a cartoon of himself, and no doubt will be a thorn in the side of Blair during the next parliament. There were some decent anti-war independents standing – calm and honest people who never shook hands with Saddam Hussein – and any one of them would be better than Galloway. My commiserations to anyone who will have to work with him now as MP for a place he’s got no connection with apart from a conveniently large proportion of Muslims.

Before long Parkes got a call from the loony Respect leader himself telling the teenager to take the offending comment down.

He was determined that he was going to get what he wanted.

He explained to me something about what my job was as the editor, and that I needed to check stories before they were published.

But Parkes didn’t budge:

I was the editor and I decided it was fair comment so we put it back up on the site and left a message on his answer phone telling him we had done so, but we never heard from him again.

Apart from siding with terrorists and tyrants, inciting Iraqis to attack British troops, calling the Mohammed cartoons row more serious than 9/11 and 7/7, suffering delusions of grandeur, and bullying 15-year-old boys, what else has Bonkers Galloway done that could label him a madman? Hmm.