So, now that Russell Brand is going to prison for rape, perhaps it's time for some of you to engage in a little overdue self-reflection.
I'm talking about those of you who dismissed his victims as money-grabbing whores.
Those of you who concocted deranged conspiracy theories about a deep-state plot to silence Brand simply because he talked bollocks on his YouTube channel.
Because beneath all that sanctimonious, conspiratorial bullshit were real women, real victims, who had endured horrific sexual assaults at the hands of a rapist.
Perhaps spare a thought for them next time you're tempted to turn someone else's suffering into another instalment of your tinfoil fantasies.
Disability is not a moral failing
It’s not something that you can outrun with healthy living
It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of
It will happen to almost everyone, and believing you’re morally superior to those of us who are disabled causes tremendous harm.
Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault. I'm shocked because I was certain he would get away with his crimes.
The fact that Brand is a rapist was an open secret on the British comedy circuit. A friend of mine knows one of his victims.
One of the things I learned over the last few years is how many people in the entertainment industry are good, decent people and how many are compromised by their own desire for power, money and clicks.
Francis and I shared what we knew about Brand with people who were thinking of working with him and many of them immediately recognised we were telling the truth and stopped any association with him. Others, not so much.
This is even more true of his former employers like Channel 4 and the BBC. I am not saying everyone at those organisations knew but many people definitely did and they not only didn't say anything, some of them actively protected him.
I hope the verdict today brings closure and peace to his victims and serves as a reminder to powerful people who abuse their position to take advantage of others that they won't get away with it forever.
With all of the sleaze Reform is embroiled in, I’m not sure it’s a good thing for Angus to make his first tweet a lie.
He isn’t an MP or a member of the official opposition. So he isn’t ‘Shadow’ anything.
Just embarrassing.
Epstein file reminder :
They raped kids
They ate babies
They trafficked teens
They removed their teeth
No I will not stop talking about the Epstein files.
The fact that this is not just happening to young people, and not just in the UK either, should really put to bed the falsehood that this is a "NEET" issue.
if you knew he was a predator why is the only other time you've ever mentioned him on Twitter in defence of his racism? agh Charlie you're a cunt so you are
Burnham just said on Sky News “I can’t help people with the cost of living crisis until the Iran war is over”, aren’t governments supposed to help people during a crisis, not when the crisis is over?
"We've played no part in this conflict" says Bridget Phillipson. Those US bombers flying over my house must have been a figment of my imagination then. #PoliticsLive
Wesley Fletcher who was found with 17 live bombs and stun guns on the Shankill rd was also a member of the Orange Order as well as a Far right organisation
But Nolan show can't talk about it as it's a live case but it's okay to talk about SF & others on the Gravaghy road
Quite wild that Andy Burnham has positioned his party as Israel First at a local council level in a week where support for Israel First policies have been thoroughly rejected by the US electorate.
everyone laughed when hackers went after supermarket fridges
now they've hit a french blood bank contractor and cranked the plasma deep-freeze from -30°C to 110°C
they went from spoiling groceries to nearly boiling blood meant for transfusions
it was caught before anyone got hurt but the jump from food to human lives happened fast
last time it was your fridge. this time it was someone's blood supply
the cooling system attacks aren't a joke anymore
Okay, so can we get some coverage over the following facts:
According to Green Party colleagues and local reports, Liz Sahu was deselected as the Green Party candidate for the upcoming 2027 city council elections in Leicester.
She has been a party member only since 2023, joining and then running for a council seat that she won in 2023.
Her fellow [now former] Green councillors noted that Sahu had been deeply unhappy and dissatisfied with the local party direction following her deselection, and that this was long before any public tensions escalated over national party motions or Zack Polanski's leadership.
Sahu had also previously noted that being in opposition on the council could feel very bureaucratic and frustrating when trying to enact practical changes for residents.
But our journalists simply aren't bothering to provide this information or context.
We’re on the verge of a nuclear war, AI-hacking of critical national infrastructure and planetary environmental collapse; but Andy Burnham’s priority is forcing local councillors to pledge their loyalty towards the racist ideology of a genocidal settler-colony in the Middle East.