Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

What do they want? Victory for Saddam

Lloyd Evans had an open mind until he joined the peace movement and met Bianca Jagger

issue 15 February 2003

I’m bursting with excitement. I can hardly get the words down fast enough. There was an amazing occurrence in Hackney last week at a meeting of the Stop the War coalition. I swear this happened. A protester said something perceptive. You don’t believe me? No, really, I was there. He was an old guy with white hair and a lovely crinkly face.

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