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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Marina Hyde

Basra carnage threatens K-Fed's playa supremacy

REMINDER: Details magazine recently judged this man to be less powerful than Kevin Federline in their Most Influential issue - a ranking which appears to have rankled the hell out of the radical Shi'ite cleric.

It is unclear whether Muqtada al-Sada's latest act of nation-destabilising insurgency will allow him to leapfrog Britney Spears's unemployed ex-house husband in any future Details rundown. But you are hereby invited to keep on the lookout for stoopid entries in power lists. GQ's 2001 observation that David Beckham was more powerful than Rupert Murdoch remains a classic, but I do hope Dazed and Confused succumbs to the writing on the wall and comes out with one soon. I can't wait to find out why Bobby Gillespie - or one of those ridiculous photographers who just take wryly-lit pictures of pubic hair or whatever - is more powerful than Vladimir Putin.

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