John Cookson

I like to have an informal chat before an on-camera interview to break the ice, but they were a tough crowd, as they say in showbiz. I knew they were passionate followers of the communist Titan Karl Marx, however I didn’t expect them to be utterly brainwashed and unable to converse about anything other than the late Mr K and his anti-capitalist musings.

launched into a rant about how her life was dedicated to: ‘the overthrow of capitalism through a socialist revolution,’ and how her earthly duty was: ‘to smash the hated the class system. I don’t care what my mother and father think, my duty is to follow the philosophies of Karl Marx,’ she parroted.

Another female fighter, Ruken, delivered a tirade about the evils of capitalism and then revealed she was a sniper – she’d shot a Turkish soldier dead earlier in the day.