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When I was 17, I became a feminist campaigner because I wanted to fight for a future where women feeling safe and being heard were considered everyday norms. I’m 61 now and still fighting as hard as ever for those basic rights, which remain infuriatingly beyond our reach. The fact that, even today — especially today — I would find it incredibly difficult to advise a woman who has been raped to go and report it to the police breaks my heart. My younger self would, rightly, be appalled. But I know that unless a woman fits the profile of...

Not sure when allegations – without any criminal charges – became the standard for punishing people. I guess that change took place sometime in mid-2020. Maybe we’re just noticing it now. It’s strange, because now anyone who doesn’t like someone can destroy their life by accusing him of something. It’s surprising YouTube didn’t just ban him outright. They’ve been waiting to do that. The Guardian: YouTube has suspended Russell Brand’s ability to earn money on the platform following allegations of rape and sexual assault in a massive hit to his finances. The video-sharing and social media site said it had...

Russell Brand has long been one of my favorite celebrities, and not just because he sings Can’t Fight This Feeling to Alec Baldwin in what is probably my guiltiest of pleasure movies (I KNOW IT’S TRASH LEAVE ME ALONE IN MY 80’S GLAM DUMPSTER). He has consistently been an advocate for respect, kindness, and the open exchange of ideas, and that’s remarkable enough among us common folk, let alone Hollywood celebrities. A longtime advocate for the underdog and critic of the elites keeping said underdogs, well, under, Brand has recently found himself under fire for championing the wrong underdog and...

Russell Brand and Che Guevara Have Much in Common Former Mr Kate Perry (and current British multi-millionaire-comedian) Russell Brand devotes much of his new book and stage routine to denouncing capitalism. The book itself is titled “Revolution” and courageously confesses to the following: “I’m a big fan of Castro and Che Guevara and all their beret-wearing cigar, gun-totting, cigar-chuffing pals. They were sexy, cool, tough.” Brand is reportedly worth about $9 million so this “incongruence” between what he practices and what he preaches makes him an easy foil for British conservatives, who ridicule him as a classic “champagne socialist.” Just...

Last week on his blog, British subject-turned-Hollywood celebrity Russell Brand took a few moments to opine on the recent London riots. In an Aug. 11 post, Brand blamed former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for the civil unrest because the rioters have lost their “sense of community.” “These young people … have no stake in society because Cameron’s mentor Margaret Thatcher told us there’s no such thing,” Brand wrote. That raised the ire of National Review columnist Mark Steyn, author of the new book “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon.” On Hugh Hewitt’s syndicated radio show, Steyn said, “The guy...