Russell Brand

Mark Steel: Deriding Russell Brand and his views is now compulsory by law

This week, by law, I have to deride Russell Brand as a self-obsessed, annoying idiot. No article or comment on Twitter can legally be written now unless it does this, so by the weekend the Sunday magazine recipes will go, 鈥淕oose and marmalade paella, serves six 鈥 unless one of the six is Russell Brand in which case he can make his own dinner as he鈥檚 such a rebel I suppose he doesn鈥檛 agree with ovens鈥.

Brand was right, we need a revolution

Comedian, Hollywood star and former host of MTV and Big Brother's Big Mouth Russell Brand in a Newsnight interview subsequently viewed millions of times on YouTube. The journalist, veteran of many bruising encounters with politicians of all stripes, decisively lost.