In October, Freeman carried out a protest by standing on a Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square in London in a 28-hour standoff with police.
In November he tweeted a photo of himself smiling before a statue of the butt he received from Zinedine Zidane at the 2006 World Cup final.
Doubtless he would be flattered, but he would be even happier to know that a life-size statue of Frank Sidebottom now stands in Timperley.
The Day of the Horse holiday was started by Berdymukhamedov's late predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, an eccentric dictator who renamed the months after members of his family and erected a golden statue of himself that revolved to reflect the sun.
From the distant steps of the newly opened war monument it didn't so much resemble a double-sided statue as a displaced Besser brick – an odd disjunctive barrier to the eye following the otherwise unbroken land axis.
Speaking at the event, Andrews vowed to ensure "every bit of bigotry will be removed from the Victorian statue books".
Pointing to the statue on top of the adjacent St Pancras terminus, which was built as a direct competitor in the 1860s, Johnson said that the "acroterion had scorned, and sneered at" King's Cross.
He also has the record for the lowest-altitude jump, from the left hand of the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro in 2001.
The social networking site carries numerous online petitions for and against the erection of a statue of him outside the presidential palace, as well as 500 Pinochet-themed opinion groups with titles varying from "General Pinochet burn in hell!" to "I loved Pinochet and I don't care what stupid communists say".
The gold statue, however, recalls the reign of his predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, who was known as Turkmenbashi, or leader of all the Turkmens.
Full details are not being disclosed yet - Blatchford said at one venue he had asked seven times in one interview for some particularly coveted artefacts - but a small taster of the treasures in the Russian collections was seen in loans to the British Council in 2011, to mark the gift of a statue of Yuri Gagarin: they included his anti-gravity training harness and a space seat for a dog.
