But even throughout these wilderness years, Julie Christie has never felt so dislocated from the world that she could ignore its horrors. Her campaigning record reads like a history of human rights abuses over the last 40 years.
This week she was back again highlighting Britain’s role in the alleged torture of a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Julie Christie: ‘I feared Bush would unleash a wave of sadism - he did’
This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon....
