Geoffrey Sampson is one smart cookie! He is a Professor in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex. He did graduate work at Yale and received his doctorate from Cambridge, taking his Oral Examination in Mandarin Chinese. He works in Language Engineering dealing with parsers and grammar-checkers, etc. I bet he'd be an interesting guy to have a cup of coffee with.
Sampson became involved in local politics, and he got himself elected to his local District Council in 2001. The liberals were incensed that he had the nerve to unseat a liberal, so in typical reactionary liberal fashion they instituted a smear compaign against him. Like I said, he'd be an interesting guy to have a cup of coffee with.