Brand stuffing Paxo?

The real deal. Political discourse via the heart, who would have thought?
Lyrical, impassioned and perhaps another apparition of a younger Alexei Sayle?
(watching Owen Jones on QT reminded me also with his gutsy verbals).
Most public figures, be it in comedy, the Media.. have been apolitical for ages
because the market wants escapism not the horror of the reality.
That comedy arena should be a cry for change not just crying to take the change out of your pocket.

Since 1994 when Clause IV was abolished by Blair at the first opportunity.
It abolished the political connection to the working classes, that got
old Labour in power 6 times over the last 100 years. The Welfare state
is the only thing left as a sole meaningful legacy.

And it is precisely those public school attitudes that permeate our political system
as Gandalf remarked on the dark Lord Sauron, who "does not share power."

Russell Brand on Question Time June 2013

I saw this 3 weeks ago. Usually the only interesting panellists on QT are the non-politicos. The odd interesting celeb, hack, artist, comic;  Eno, Self, Chakrabarti, Owen Jones, etc.  Here, there was much welcome emotion, albeit solution-lite. Nothing wrong with fluff, I guess but the clue is in the name. His agent could have said to him in the green room “...Russ just be yourself, we're opening the new Sainsbury’s in Reading tomorrow...”  QT is not a teenager's bedroom! But at least Brand connects on a gut-level with the youth demographic. We so are fed up with the lack of choice & representation in politics. But who these days is not selling something? Ideas, votes, t-shirts, DVD’s, followers, friends, subscribers, downloaders, likers,  Are we all in fact just different versions of Russell Brand..?

10^th July 13

Most bizarre TV everrrr!

Lord Sugar on the Graham Norton Show..

Sugar, the arch-grump, gets the red-chair lever control on those gushing

poor souls who recount their one story that will grip the nation.

They hope. Except, the normally assured Sugar, was floundering impatiently

with comic bad timing. The stories were all florid, risque & confessional. 

Sexual Healing with Sugar? He's most likely to say: 

"Just hurry up and get on with it!" He just didn't have Norton's 

ruthless lever touch. Hilarious, strange and definitely British.