Clyde Radcliffe posted:

Brand's close friend Jonathan Ross also started dating Jane Goldman when she was 16 and he was in his late 20s.

Gorn Myson posted:

Labour in 2015 had bigger problems than Russell Brand telling people not to vote. Besides, the most embarrassing thing in that exchange was Robert Webb penning an Guardian article attacking him and telling him to "read some loving Orwell".

crispix posted:

he comes across like a sixth former going through a phase

Beefeater1980 posted:

She was always the Home Counties Principled (thick and unimaginative rather than self interested and evil) kind of Tory. She got to be in charge of the immediate fallout of the Brexit vote and the Tory party tearing itself apart so that Boris could ride in and take the credit for “ending” (starting) that. It’s not surprising that she’s developing a couple of more normal human views the further she gets away from actual power.

She’ll be all for huntin’ shootin’ and fishin’, thinking the countryside is the real Britain and poor people are that way because they’re just too lazy. But still, first Tory leader since John Major who wasn’t actively malevolent.

E: sex pests - ever since Brand and Jonathan Ross called up Andrew Sachs to be vile it’s been obvious they weren’t just ordinary dickheads they were incredibly awful people.

quote:

The Home Office is refusing to reveal how many detainees have been sexually assaulted or raped inside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire in case the information becoming public knowledge harms the “commercial interests” of private companies that are involved in running it, The Independent can reveal.

quote:

"During other Radio 2 episodes, Brand made a series of sexual remarks about the newsreader Andrea Simmons, describing her on air as “erotic” and a “sex bomb”, and telling listeners that he would like to “go under the desk” while she was reading the news. Several times after this it is implied that Brand was forced to apologise by BBC production staff.
In May 2007, Brand called Jimmy Savile, who suggested the pair could meet if Brand brought along a sister. Brand doesn’t have a sister, so instead offered to bring a female employee — agreeing, on Savile’s request, that she should be naked."

quote:

“What do they have to do, sign it in blood?” one source said, of the workers’ rights policies.

fuctifino posted:

I posted about this a few pages back, but there's video now:

https://twitter.com/evolvepolitics/status/1703046410000621805

Incredible turnaround times

Chinese Gordon posted:

Yeah, seriously. 31 year old Brand sent a car to pick up his 16 year old 'girlfriend' from secondary school, encouraged her to read Lolita and to deceive her parents, then proceeded to violently sexually assault her. He violently raped another girlfriend, who attended a rape crisis centre the next day.

It goes way beyond "lol of *course* Russell Brand is a sex pest, lol". The man's a monster.

Jedit posted:

Ross is poo poo, but he married Jane Goldman and they're still together 35 years later so that's one thing I'm not going to criticise him for.

History Comes Inside! posted:

Yeah it wasn’t my intention to minimise how much of a shitbag he is

It was more of a view on how the situation is now seemingly downgraded from “Noncegeddon is coming for the British comedy scene” to “One ‘comic’ is a rapist piece of poo poo”

Brendan Rodgers posted:

Dispatches might accuse some other comedians later, or maybe there are other comedians who knew about Brand and were accessory somehow.

Aramoro posted:

Posters here are certainly hope so. That it justifies their Comic I don’t like must be a nonce stance.

Brendan Rodgers posted:

Dispatches might accuse some other comedians later, or maybe there are other comedians who knew about Brand and were accessory somehow.

Nonsense posted:

Polly Pickpocket posted:

He started going out with her when she was 16 and he was 26, then they married when she turned 18. I'd happily criticise him for that.

Mebh posted:

I will be very disappointed if noncegeddon is just Russell loving Brand who is a class A twat anyway.

I was hoping for at least 75% of the overly posh and privileged Oxbridge educated panel circuit that propped up the anti Corbyn media circus to have to get in the bin.

E: speaking of UK comedy circuit regulars (not so much anymore) what does the thread make of Nish Kumar these days? since he started doing Pod save the UK. I know we weren't collectively much a fan of the American version due to the Obama whitewashing.

Not So Fast posted:

How many nonces does this island have?!

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

At this point we should round up anyone who isn't a nonce and put them on a remote island where they can indulge in their consensual sex with adults kink.

Not So Fast posted:

How many nonces does this island have?!

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

In Britain you are never more than 50 metres from a nonce.

Aramoro posted:

I mean there are other posts but that’s one that literally says they’re hoping they’re sex offenders.