Russell Brand and the Left

Does the world need another comment about Russell Brand? Whatever, it's getting one. And with special regard to that period between, roughly, 2013 and 2015 when Brand assumed a left wing persona and was variously feted by the radical and mainstream sections of the labour movement. Following Brand's convictions for rape and sexual assault, point scoring has been the order of the day. For the Daily Mail, Brand is the left's "fault". Presumably because his ascent to prominence was through Channel Four and the BBC, which long set the grounds for that infamous Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman and his one-issue editorial take over of the New Statesman. Handily the Mail have memory holed the last 10 years when the politics he proffered were much closer to the paper's wingnut columnists than anything else. But why was Brand taken seriously by some sections of the left and indulged? That includes this place. He was obviously a narcissist, well known for his promiscuity and sexism, and…

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