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2024	George Galloway Galloway lost his seat at the general election.
2024	George Galloway George Galloway identified as socially conservative, reflecting a significant shift in his political views.
2024	George Galloway Writing for The Guardian, Michael Chessum noted that Galloway's politics had evolved in the late 2010s to embrace Scottish unionism and social conservatism, highlighting his connections to the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) during the early years of the Workers Party.
2024	George Galloway Reaffirmed his opposition to abortion, citing his Catholic faith, and restated opposition to euthanasia in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
October 2024	George Galloway The High Court in Dublin ordered Twitter to pay Galloway's legal costs and requested both parties to submit sworn affidavits by January 30, 2025.
July 31 2024	University of Glasgow The university reported total expenditure of £658.6 million, significantly lower than the previous year's £827.4 million.
July 31 2024	University of Glasgow University of Glasgow completed its financial year with a total income of £950 million, marking a slight increase from the previous year's £944.2 million.
May 2024	George Galloway Galloway described himself as socially conservative and faced accusations of 'blatant homophobia and opposition to LGBT rights' from the organization Momentum after expressing his views on teaching children about gay relationships.
May 23 2024	George Galloway Galloway confirmed he would run for re-election in Rochdale at the 2024 general election.
April 11 2024	University of Glasgow Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah was installed as Rector, winning 80% of the vote while under investigation by the University.
March 2024	George Galloway Galloway was sworn in as an MP while holding a Bible, reaffirming his identification as a practicing Roman Catholic in a subsequent interview.
February 2024	George Galloway Galloway was sworn into parliament, choosing to make a religious oath while holding a bible and swearing allegiance to King Charles and his heirs.
February 2024	George Galloway In his election speech, Galloway criticized Keir Starmer's role in the Israel–Hamas conflict, indicating that he would pay a high price for it.
February 2024	George Galloway Galloway was elected in the Rochdale by-election, winning almost 40% of the vote and overturning a Labour majority of 9,668.
January 2024	George Galloway George Galloway announced that he would stand in the Rochdale by-election for the Workers Party of Britain.
2023	University of Glasgow University of Glasgow increased its endowments to £262.4 million, up from £234.3 million in the previous year, and raised its total net assets to £1.409 billion from £1.079 billion.
October 7 2023	George Galloway Following the Hamas attack on Israel, Galloway publicly disputed reports from the Israeli government regarding casualties, claiming that a significant portion of the fatalities were from the Israeli Defense Forces and labeling those who supported the official narrative as 'war criminals'.
2022	George Galloway In early 2022, Galloway dismissed claims regarding an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine, asserting that he was correct when he stated, 'I told you it wasn't. You were wrong. I was right.' His comments came just days before the actual invasion occurred.
2022	George Galloway Scottish Liberal Democrats leader, Alex Cole-Hamilton, criticized Galloway, calling him 'an apologist for Russian expansionist aggression' due to his association with RT.
2022	George Galloway Galloway suggested that the Bucha massacre was staged, leading to significant backlash, including accusations of him being an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2022	George Galloway Jamie Blackett ended their political alliance, All for Unity, due to disagreements over Galloway's stance on Ukraine.
2022	George Galloway Galloway dismissed allegations of the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China, claiming there were no internment camps and referring to the facilities as 're-education centres' aimed at steering extremists away from violence.
2022	George Galloway Galloway concluded his tenure as a presenter on RT.
May 2022	George Galloway Galloway expressed interest in running in the 2022 Wakefield by-election for the Workers Party of Britain while criticizing Labour's candidate selection process.
April 2022	George Galloway Galloway announced legal action against Twitter after his account was labeled 'Russian state-affiliated media', claiming defamation and unlawful processing of his personal data.
February 2022	George Galloway After Russia invaded Ukraine, Galloway stated that the invasion was 'not what I wanted', yet he blamed the West for provoking the situation, alleging they pumped Ukraine full of NATO weapons, mercenaries, and propaganda.
2021	George Galloway Galloway founded the British unionist alliance All for Unity, which received 0.9% of votes at the Scottish Parliament election.
2021	George Galloway Following its poor performance in the Scottish Parliament election, the Alliance 4 Unity party was dissolved the subsequent year.
May 27 2021	George Galloway Galloway announced his candidacy for the 2021 Batley and Spen by-election, later claiming he would challenge the election outcome in court after finishing third.
April 2021	University of Glasgow The new Learning Hub opened, named after James McCune Smith, the first African American to earn a medical degree and a University of Glasgow alumnus.
April 21 2021	University of Glasgow Rita Rae, a Scottish lawyer, judge, and former Senator of the College of Justice, was appointed Rector after a decisive victory.
2020	University of Glasgow Rector elections were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020	George Galloway Galloway co-founded a cross-party Scottish unionist political coalition called Alliance 4 Unity, aimed at defeating the Scottish National Party in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
November 16 2020	George Galloway Galloway announced his intention to stand in the expected by-election for Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
August 2020	George Galloway Following the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Galloway claimed on RT that Navalny was a white supremacist.
2019	George Galloway Galloway defended the authorities' crackdown on protests in Hong Kong, asserting that Hong Kong is part of China and indicating that no country would tolerate an existential threat on its territory.
2019	George Galloway George Galloway announced plans to prosecute Alastair Campbell concerning the Iraq War, stating he would not rest until Tony Blair was brought to justice.
2019	George Galloway Contested the West Bromwich East Parliamentary seat as an independent, coming sixth with 489 votes.
December 14 2019	George Galloway Galloway launched the Workers Party of Britain, positioning it as an economically radical party committed to class politics, with Galloway as its leader.
April 17 2019	George Galloway George Galloway announced his support for the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage for the upcoming European Parliament elections, citing concerns about Labour's candidates and emphasizing the importance of implementing the Brexit referendum result.
2017	University of Glasgow Aamer Anwar, a Scottish lawyer and former student, was elected Rector and served until 2020.
2017	George Galloway It was revealed that George Galloway's reimbursed expense claim for the rent of his constituency office had been forwarded by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to the Metropolitan Police for assessment.
2017	George Galloway George Galloway criticized Britain's close ties with Saudi Arabia and the British involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, stating that Saudi Arabia is a country with no democracy or freedom, and that it exports and funds terrorism around the world.
March 29 2017	University of Glasgow The Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) was opened at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, featuring a Clinical Innovation Zone for research and industry collaboration.
March 21 2017	George Galloway Galloway announced he was standing as an independent candidate in the Manchester Gorton by-election, following the death of Sir Gerald Kaufman.
2016	George Galloway In a New Internationalist interview, Galloway publicly discussed a childhood incident of sexual abuse that he claimed occurred when he was 12 years old.
2016	George Galloway Galloway hosted The Mother of All Talk Shows on TalkRadio until his dismissal in 2019.
2016	George Galloway Galloway supported Russian military action against Islamic State, arguing that the crimes committed by the Syrian government were fewer than those of IS.
2016	George Galloway Galloway campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union.
2016	George Galloway During an interview with Nigel Farage, Galloway publicly expressed respect for Russian President Vladimir Putin, stating that he believed Putin to be very popular in Russia.
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