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..?
10th July 13
