For years, ‘progressive’ men have turned a blind eye to an abuser in order to gain political advantage. This shows how little women are valued in their cause.
Russell Brand has himself admitted that he was a sex addict, and like other celebrities, he was swarmed by women. Yet women’s greed for men with celebrity status and wealth is rarely criticised.
The question of guilt in the Brand case is not the subject of this article. It is, however, interesting to note that the assaults for which he has been convicted took place whilst Brand himself belonged to the progressive left. Nevertheless, the assaults are said to have continued. More on this later.
‘Everyone’ knew that Brand was a rather dreadful bloke; he admitted as much himself in public, including in his role as a stand-up comedian. It is also telling to note how this left-wing mafia embraced Brand.
After Brand changed his political stance, the tone quickly shifted. The fact that in 2020 he distinguished himself as a vocal critic of the seemingly coordinated tyranny that arose across large parts of the West during the Covid-19 pandemic made him persona non grata.
Both The Times and The Telegraph address this topic. In the latter, Suzanne Moore examines Brand’s relationship with Owen Jones, one of the most despicable representatives of the ‘woke’ left.
In 2014, Russell Brand described Owen Jones, the Left-wing activist, as: “This generation’s Orwell.” It was a quote that Jones used on the cover of his book, The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It. These guys bigged each other up. Oh dear.
Jones is a columnist for the left’s favourite, The Guardian. He has no problem with people who commit sexual abuse, provided they belong to the right group. In an interview with the BBC, he says:
At the time I saw him as a crude means to reach disillusioned younger people with left-wing politics – the sort of people who wouldn’t be reached by traditional left-wing journalists and politicians. As a result I was willing to overlook, or just not look into, his history of problematic behaviour / statements, including sexism. I convinced myself that he was on some sort of journey, and that this was a good thing.
Willing to overlook… He saw it, but didn’t want to see it, because the left-wing agenda was more important, writes a colleague in our internal chat.
‘Overlook’ is the key word here. Who was he willing to turn a blind eye to, or simply not delve into further? Women, of course. These left-wing men who are keen to declare themselves feminists, show us time and again what they really think – women are expendable.
‘Men’ like these care desperately about trans women (other men) and ‘sex workers’ (whom they’d gladly decriminalise), but forget about the rest. Are you an ordinary, heterosexual woman who works, is married to a man and has given birth to a couple of children? Up Against the Wall!
Jones now admits that it was a clear misjudgement. But there is no reason to be reassured and think that Jones has finally understood his mistakes. For there are people with similar political views who support the violent criminal illegal migrants in the US, even those charged with serious violent crimes and acts of violence.
These self-righteous moralists took about a quarter of an hour to take to the streets waving Palestinian flags following the terrorist attack on 7 October 2023, long before the Israel Defence Forces had responded militarily to the atrocities. Even the LGBTQ mafia joins in when Hamas activists sing about ‘Holocaust 2.0’ (From the River to the Sea).
Naturally, this section of the left supported the violent and Marxist Black Lives Matter movement. They couldn’t care less that the working class has to live in increasingly unsafe surroundings, whilst seeing their economy collapse due to mass immigration and idiotic climate measures.
Today, the very same people are claiming in all seriousness that the riots in France, which have spread to other European countries, are due to the high cost of living and dissatisfaction with the education system. Lies are their weapon, to paraphrase the title of the book and film *Fear Is the Key* by Alistair MacLean, which in Norwegian was called *Frykten er mitt våpen* (
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None of these radicals are willing to admit that it is the policies they advocate that have ruined the schools and devastated the economy.
Owen Jones was not the only one on the left who supported Russell Brand. In 2014, environmental activist George Monbiot, who also has a regular column in *The Guardian*, called Brand a hero, and said that, thanks to his ‘emotional honesty’, he was ‘the best thing to happen to the left in many years’. Monbiot has also eaten humble pie following Brand’s conviction.
“When the revelations came to light, I was appalled. But I should have been more wary earlier on and realised just how exploitative the way he treated other people was.”
Alastair Campbell, who was Tony Blair’s strategist and spokesperson, was delighted that Ed Miliband sought out Brand during the 2015 election campaign. Miliband was leader of the Labour Party when they lost the general election that year. Under Keir Starmer, he was appointed Net Zero General, and is now, under Andy Burnham, the UK’s Foreign Secretary.
“What Russell Brand says and does matters more than what The Sun, The Mail, The Telegraph, The Star and The Express will say on election day,” Campbell said at the time.
Campbell has written books about his struggle with depression, but it wasn’t Russell Brand who made him depressed.
Brand himself had said that he never bothered to vote, so why he was chosen as a political motivator is another matter entirely. He eventually urged people to turn up at the polling stations, but only after the registration deadline had passed. Revolutionary, isn’t it?
In his book ‘Booky Wook 2’, Brand wrote:
What kind of man was I? Treating women in this way? If this is what I’m telling you, can you imagine what’s being left out?
He wrote about spitting in a prostitute’s face and kicking his dog down the stairs.
Brand harassed 78-year-old Andrew Sachs, who played the Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (“A Hotel in a Class of Its Own”), by leaving voicemails in which he claimed that he had slept with his granddaughter. This incident was actually broadcast on The Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio.
This was the man who was portrayed as a champion of the left. Matthew Syed in The Times writes:
Andy Burnham defended him against accusations of hypocrisy and urged him to ‘keep going’. Caroline Lucas (former leader of the Green Party) praised him for ‘rattling people’s cages’ in Parliament.
He also received praise, enthusiastic editorials and guest editorial assignments from leading left-wing magazines and newspapers, not to mention praise from celebrities such as Paul Weller (singer and songwriter with The Jam). Indeed, I could pretty much fill the column with this torrent of admiration.
Of course, I didn’t know any of this as a young lad, when I used to play that fantastic Jam song ‘Start’ on repeat. ‘What you give is what you get’, indeed. Fits Brand rather well, one might say. But the whole affair casts the British left in a particularly unfavourable light.
It could also be seen as a new example of Keir Starmer’s legal two-tier system, where group affiliation and political preferences determine how severe the punishment will be.
Everything points to Russell Brand being a sexual predator, and I have no qualms about feeling contempt. Brand thought he was untouchable; he thought he was Jesus, and dressed the part.
However, both the evidence and the sentencing for the offences for which he has been convicted – several of which took place two decades ago – are open to question. Particularly when compared to the sentences handed down to Pakistani Muslims who carried out organised serial rape on an industrial scale against young British girls for decades – something many Britons in public and political positions knew about but ignored. After all, they didn’t want to be accused of racism or Islamophobia.
Owen Jones goes to great lengths to emphasise that Brand has now been infected by far-right conspiracy theories. But what is Jones actually saying?
It is not entirely far-fetched to interpret this as meaning that Jones tolerated a sexual predator as long as he belonged to the left. But once he was ‘infected’ by the right, Russell Brand became fair game.
This is no excuse for how Russell Brand has behaved. It is a criticism of the left, which happily destroys entire societies, supports terrorists and abusers, and has no qualms about serious violent crime, as long as it serves their political agenda.
Terrorists who kill children and rape young Jewish women are ‘freedom fighters’. Black Lives Matter, which burnt down entire cities and caused dozens of deaths, must be supported. The violent mobs in France and criminal immigrants in Norway are, after all, merely ‘vulnerable’.
In 1964, Stokely Carmichael, one of the leading figures of the Black Power movement, was asked about the role of women in the revolution. He replied:
The only position for women [in the movement] is prone.
Carmichael thus believed that women’s only useful contribution was to allow themselves to be taken from behind. According to the judge, Brand engaged in such a practice when, after consensual sex using a condom, he concluded by anally raping the victim without a condom. What has changed?
Owen Jones, Ed Miliband, Carmichael and the others are our modern-day version of what T.S. Eliot described in the poem The Hollow Men, which was published in its entirety in 1925, just over a hundred years ago.
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
Like the wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellarShape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;…
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
