“To link me up with skinheads who are killing people in Russia, to put me in league with Hamas murderers who kill people on buses, is defamation," he said, adding: “What does that say about the government of England? It says more about them than it says about me." He told Smith: “"Shame on you for violating the laws of your own land. Shame on you for taking the land of the Magna Carta and turning it into a sort of mini North Korea." Savage, 67, a former liberal whose real name is Michael Weiner, says he espouses “traditional values” and is provocative in order to stimulate debate. In 2006 he said: “Intelligent people ... are very depressed by the weakness that America is showing to these psychotics in the Muslim world. They say, 'Oh, there's a billion of them'. I said: 'So, kill 100 million of them, then there'll be 900 million of them'."