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David Bishop (AKA ‘Lord Biro’ and ‘Bus-pass Elvis’)

Described by the BBC as “a serial fringe candidate,” Broxtowe, Nottingham born ‘Lord Biro’ attended the late paedophile Jimmy Savile’s funeral dressed as Elvis. He threw a 99p bunch of flowers into his grave...

Lotti Henley (born Princess Windisch-Graetz of Austria)

In spite of being born in 1925 in a castle in Austria, West London based mother of two Lotti Henley spends days feeding the homeless and destitute. Enthusiastic and dedicated to “caring for food,”...

Chen Si (陳思)

Made famous in the film Angel of Nanjing, Chen Si has saved over 300 lives at the world’s most popular suicide spot, the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China, since 2003. This kindly gent...

Livia Firth (born and also known as Livia Giuggioli)

In May 2016, Livia Firth daftly announced: “I celebrated reaching 30,000 followers on Instagram… I bought confetti”. The wife of the actor and a mother of two, self-described “Queen of the Green Carpet” Firth...

Dr Lisa Mckenzie (AKA “Red Lisa”)

This flame haired academic and “rebel ethnographer” is obsessed with what she calls the “Precariat” or what – in layman’s terms – might be described as “those at the bottom of the class structure”. A...

Pastor Farris Wilks

A Texan bricklayer turned billionaire, Pastor Farris Wilks grew up in a goat shed but now owns an airport and his own aircraft. Firmly anti-gay marriage and often described as a “dirt farmer”, Wilks...

Suzanne Congdon LeRoy

Despite being the daughter of a woman suspected to have murdered her wealthy adopted mother and nurse in 1977 in Duluth, Minnesota, author Suzanne Congdon LeRoy has turned her life to good. In Nightingale:...

Emily Clarkson

The feminist daughter of the television icon Jeremy Clarkson is the antithesis of negativity and Katie Hopkins. Emily Clarkson was described as having “inherited her father’s gumption, fearlessness and sense of humour” by the...

Stinson Hunter (AKA “The Paedophile Hunter””, born Kieren Parsons)

With over 66,000 followers on Twitter, Stinson Hunter is a self-styled online crime fighter.Best known for having appeared on the Channel 4 documentary The Paedophile Hunter in October 2014, Hunter was expelled from three...

Robert Worsley

Termed the “most principled man in Britain”, Robert Worsley turned down a £275 million offer for his farm in 2015.Part of the Locals Against Mayfield Building Sprawl (LAMBS) campaign, Stowe educated Worsley paid £1.7...

Amanda Lindhout

This Canadian humanitarian campaigner and journalist became the news herself after being kidnapped, beaten and raped by fundamentalist teens in Somalia in 2008. Released 15 months later, Amanda Lindhout bravely shunned the description “victim”...

Anthony Watson

Listed as one of Fortune’s ‘40 Under 40’ list of young business leaders and the Financial Times’ fourth most influential gay business leaders list, former Barclays CIO Anthony Watson was also named in The Telegraph’s...

Lord Wei

This English “social reformer” became the first British-born person of Chinese origin to enter the House of Lords in June 2010. A one time advisor to David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ project and a member...

Ghislaine Maxwell

The favourite child of the crooked newspaper tycoon ‘Bouncing Bob’ Maxwell, New York based Ghislaine Maxwell has been described as “smart, funny, beaut, kind and sarcastic” by a licensed massage therapist turned Palm Beach...

Chuck Feeney (also known as Charles Feeney)

A somewhat secretive billionaire who wants to go bust in his lifetime: Twice married, New Jersey born Chuck Feeney has dual Irish-American citizenship and founded The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private foundations...

Chris and Colin Weir

This former Scottish Television cameraman and his ex-nurse wife won £161 million on the EuroMillions lottery in 2011 and “believe that things do happen for a reason, and that with great wealth comes great...

Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE

Larger than life Camila Batmanghelidjh was born in Tehran and was once described as “Britain’s most colourful charity leader”. In 1996, Batmanghelidjh founded Kids Company to help vulnerable youngsters in inner cities, and upto August...

The Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield PC (1873 – 1953)

“The name’s Bondfield, Margaret Bondfield”: This left-winger was the first female Cabinet Minister in the UK and the only woman present at the Accession Council which proclaimed King George VI's accession to the Throne...

Ryan Holle

Convicted of first-degree murder in 2004 simply for lending his car to a friend and housemate named William Allen, Jr. who killed a drug dealer, Holle is serving a life sentence without parole at...

Sir Kenneth Robinson

20 million people have watched this Liverpool born educationalist’s “How schools kill creativity” lecture on TED and his advocacy for discovering talents and passions have earned him plaudits galore. Now based in Los Angeles,...

Jeremy Bamber

Convicted of the 1985 murders of his millionaire adopted parents, his sister and her children at White House Farm at Tolleshunt D’Arcy in Essex, Bamber has always maintained his paranoid schizophrenic sister carried out...

Stella Liebeck (1913 – 2004)

This pensioner spilt coffee on her lap in 1992 in the carpark of a McDonald’s drive-through in Albuquerque, New Mexico and won $2.9 million in damages in 1994. The story became the stuff of...

Henry Wyndham

A collector of English drawings and watercolours since the age of 14 and second to none as an auctioneer, Eton educated Wyndham hammered down Giacometti’s Walking Man sculpture for £65 million in 2010 and...

Lloyd Scott MBE

This former professional football goalkeeper and cancer survivor completed the 2002 London Marathon in a deep-sea diving suit and took 12 days to walk the length of Loch Ness in 2003. He’s completed countless...

Dr. Elisabeth Maxwell (better known as Betty Maxwell, 1921 – 2013)

Her “fat fraudster” husband called this French Hugenot Protestant “the keeper of my Jewish soul”. Of her life with him, she wrote an autobiography titled A Mind of My Own: My Life With Robert...

Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE

The Jamaican mother of Stephen Lawrence, who was tragically murdered in a racist incident in 1993, has done huge amounts of community work in her son’s name since. A tireless campaigner for justice, Baroness...

Kerry Grist-Needham (formerly Kerry Needham)

Since her twenty-one-month year old son Ben went missing on the Greek Island of Kos in July 1991, Ms. Grist-Needham has tirelessly campaigned to try and find him. Unlike with other cases, little help...

Martha Payne

A fearless child who set about improving school meals by posting photographs and rating the junk she was fed. Her blog, NeverSeconds, became an internet sensation and even Jamie Oliver backed her. Subsequently, bureaucrats...

Virginia McKenna OBE

This British actress is best known for playing Joy Adamson in the true-life film Born Free alongside her real-life husband, Bill Travers (1957 – 1994).  She’s also starred in the Ring of Bright Water,...

Gerry & Kate McCann

Their daughter Madeleine disappeared on the evening 3rd May 2007 from a holiday apartment whilst they sat enjoying tapas with a bunch of friends. Some believe the poor child was kidnapped. Others have alternative...

Gina Miller

This modern day suffragette is a philanthropist and founding partner of SCM Private, a Belgravia based firm of wealth managers. Gina Miller has three degrees, is originally from Guyana, South America and is leading a fight...

Bono (Paul David Hewson)

This Irishman is one of the world’s best-known philanthropic performers. Having invested £56 million in Facebook in 2009, he’s now the richest living musician. His shareholding of 2.3% in the company is now worth...

Peter Wetherell

He’s the gent who successfully led the campaign against Westminster Council’s ludicrous attempt to expand parking charges in the West End. He’s also Mayfair’s leading estate agent and the man credited with bringing residential...

Hakim Berkani

A former parking warden who was probably the only decent one out there. He refused to behave like his grasping colleagues in Kensington & Chelsea (who referred to themselves as “Ali Baba and his...

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Barbara Smoker (1923 – 2020) – A promoter of “causes many of us now take for granted,” Catford born campaigner and humanist activist Barbara Smoker believed in surviving “on her wits” and “making an extra bit on the horses.”

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Barbara Smoker (1923 – 2020)
Emily Bolton – Solicitor, campaigner and founder of Centre for Criminal Appeals – Shackleton Award winning solicitor has campaigned for wrongly convicted individuals in America and Britain. She founded the Centre for Criminal Appeals in 2011 and is married to the Reprieve founder and one of “Britain’s most powerful civil rights lawyers,” Clive Stafford Smith.

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Emily Bolton
“Legal superwoman” Jessica Jackson Sloan (born Jessica Hurst) – Born in Alabama in 1982, Jessica Jackson Sloan has morphed from a high-school dropout with a baby and a drug addict, jailbird husband in 2004 to, most bizarrely, one half of a “criminal justice reform dream team” with Kim Kardashian in 2020.

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Jessica Jackson Sloan (born Jessica Hurst)
Dame Louise Casey DBE, CB – Homelessness campaigner – In 2018, Tony Blair’s former ‘homelessness tsar’ Dame Louise Casey “blasted” Theresa May’s government as anything but “kind.” A former director of Shelter and head of the Rough Sleepers’ Unit also, Casey became an advisor to Boris Johnson to review how to tackle rough sleeping in February 2020. Educated at Goldsmiths, University of London, this history graduate spoke for the nation during the coronavirus crisis when she announced: “It’s time for everybody in our country to step up... I hope common sense prevails.”

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Dame Louise Casey DBE, CB
Mark McGowan (AKA The Artist Taxi Driver and Chunky Mark) – London based Mark McGowan is better known as ‘The Artist Taxi Driver.’ He shares his daily rants on YouTube about political parties and injustice.

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Mark McGowan (AKA The Artist Taxi Driver and Chunky Mark)
Serial fringe candidate David Bishop (AKA ‘Lord Biro’ & ‘Bus-pass Elvis’) – Eccentric David Bishop goes by the name ‘Lord Biro’ when he stands in elections. He attended Jimmy Savile’s funeral dressed as Elvis.

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David Bishop (AKA ‘Lord Biro’ and ‘Bus-pass Elvis’)
2017 – The Sinners and The Saints – The Steeple Times chooses the 25 best and 25 worst people of 2017; Brenda from Bristol and the Mary Berry are crowned our winners

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Lotti Henley (born Princess Windisch-Graetz of Austria)
Chen Si

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Chen Si (陳思)
Livia Firth (born and also known as Livia Giuggioli)

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Livia Firth (born and also known as Livia Giuggioli)
Dr Lisa Mckenzie (AKA “Red Lisa”)

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Dr Lisa Mckenzie (AKA “Red Lisa”)
Pastor Farris Wilks

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Pastor Farris Wilks
Suzanne Congdon LeRoy

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Suzanne Congdon LeRoy
Emily Clarkson

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Emily Clarkson
Stinson Hunter

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Stinson Hunter (AKA “The Paedophile Hunter””, born Kieren Parsons)
Robert Worsley

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Robert Worsley
Amanda Lindhout

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Amanda Lindhout
Anthony Watson

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Anthony Watson
Lord Wei

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Lord Wei
Ghislaine Maxwell

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Ghislaine Maxwell
chuck feeney

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Chuck Feeney (also known as Charles Feeney)
Chris and Colin Weir FI1 1

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Chris and Colin Weir
Camila Batmanghelidjh FI 1

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Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE
Margaret Bondfield FI 1

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The Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield PC (1873 – 1953)
Ryan Holle FI 1

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Ryan Holle
Sir Ken Robinson FI 1

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Sir Kenneth Robinson
Jeremy Bamber FI 1

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Jeremy Bamber
Stella Liebeck FI 1

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Stella Liebeck (1913 - 2004)
Henry Wyndham FI 1

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Henry Wyndham
Lloyd Scott FI 1

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Lloyd Scott MBE
Elisabeth Maxwell FI 1

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Dr. Elisabeth Maxwell (better known as Betty Maxwell, 1921 – 2013)
Baroness Lawrence FI 1

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Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE
Kerry Needham FI 1 1

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Kerry Grist-Needham (formerly Kerry Needham)
Martha Payne FI 1

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Martha Payne
Virginia McKenna FI 1

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Virginia McKenna OBE
Hall 500 1

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Gerry & Kate McCann
Gina Miller 1

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Gina Miller
Bono 1

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Bono (Paul David Hewson)
Peter Wetherell 1

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Peter Wetherell
Hakim Berkani 1

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Hakim Berkani