Russell Brand is fast becoming a political joke. The multi-millionaire, who is currently dating heiress Jemima Khan, was recently seen stripping off and calling for a "peaceful revolution" at a rally in London. This provides an excellent excuse to re-run Colin Liddell's article on the bearded freak from October last year.
The big political news story in the UK at the moment is the political ranting of Russell Brand, a recovering(?) junkie sex maniac celebrity, who was recently invited to guest-edit one of the country’s most respected left-wing political magazines, The New Statesman.
Brand has essentially two “Big Ideas,” which can be summarized as follows:
Brand has essentially two “Big Ideas,” which can be summarized as follows:
(1) Normal politics is shit. The only hope is the left-wing, but they are smug, self-important, and have no sense of fun, so it’s no wonder that people are apathetic and prefer sport and computer games to politics.While the first idea plays to lazy cynicism about politics, the second substitutes pop yogi mysticism for practical details.
(2) We need a spontaneous, grassroots, Utopian, spiritual revolution to share all the wealth and save the environment. P.S. I have a personal fortune of $15 million and constantly use jets.
