Christopher Hitchens had his own piece on Galloway’s senate performance in yesterday’s Mirror. To his credit, he mentioned the popinjay exchange:

I should perhaps declare a small bias here: on spotting your own correspondent, Mr Galloway shouted that he was a “drink- sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay and useful idiot”, some of which was unfair.

Despite supporting the Iraq war, Hitchens’ assessment of Galloway’s performance is pretty favourable:

The member for Bethnal Green and Bow showed the clear superiority of a parliamentary training (and a soapbox training) over a senatorial one. As Americans like to say, he got his retaliation in first. It didn’t matter how many times Senator Norm Coleman insisted the sub-committee was not a court, Galloway was outraged that he had only now had the chance to defend himself.

I guess extolling parliament over senate must be an ex-pat thing.