Somewhere in the comments section of this blog one reader wrote, perhaps humorously, of the "vast anti-Galloway conspiracy". What is inarguable is that events have conspired to make January 25, a date which is normally reserved for another Scotsman, into a sort of unoffcial Galloway Day.
Reports in the newspapers and radio this morning were suggesting today could go very badly for him. First was the high court ruling on the Telegraph's appeal against its lost libel case. If it went the newspaper's way, the MP faced a legal bill that would have bankrupted him - we learned this morning that the Telegraph lost its appeal. Galloway will surely be pleased when he learns of the court's decision.
Of course, the reason he does not know now is that he is still locked in the Big Brother house. His likely eviction was pegged as the second potentially bad thing that could happen to him today, though why anyone would not feel relieved to be released from an enclosed living space shared with Michael Barrymore is something of a mystery.
What may be less of a relief for the man is some of the press coverage he has attracted in the house. The rolling Sky News channel is in full The Day Today mode, promising that it will be finding out what Galloway's friends think "if he still has any". The watchable/unwatchable leotard incident was clearly intended by the producers to make him look stupid, but the unedifying row between Galloway and Barrymore, showing him in a much nastier light, came from the two men themselves.
His appearance before the senate committee seems a long time ago now, even if telling recovering alcoholic Barrymore "poor me, poor me, pour me another drink" bore some resemblence to his "drink-soaked former Trotskyte popinjay" jibe to Christopher Hitchens that distant May day. It is hard to see how he can be pleased with any of his excursion into reality TV, but then again he is a man who seems to thrive on adversity - MediaGuardian.co.uk's Organ grinder blog is asking readers what he will do next.
All that remains today is the interview with Davina McCall. Whether she will try out her Paxman routine to ask Galloway about the Guardian's report he may face an investigation from the serious fraud office (and the Sun's video of him meeting Uday Hussein) or sticks to her more usual style of inquiring what he really thought of Rula Lenska, it should make for more gripping than usual viewing. A strange, but somehow appropriate, conclusion to Galloway Day.
