Opinion piece on Russell Brand by New Statesman writer (The Times share token) -interesting reference to Owen Jones

[BrontëParsonage]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fa7cd69c-5584-11ee-9ad7-7384b2f230c5?shareToken=b286ef802589c15eb1ddb63655243cd8

Has Jordan Peterson backed him? If so I'll take back any respect I had for the man.

Some quality waffling the fuck on about nothing there, oh to have such a job.

Haven't heard anything about Jordan Peterson offering support?

I think I missed the point of the article? Just read like someone trying to do the same character assassination job they've been doing on him for years, hanging on the coat tails of the (very serious) allegations made on Saturday. No new information here at all.

Is it a commentary that we have allowed him to have a platform despite his honesty about being an appalling person who no one should listen to?

The writer means alternative not alternate [missing the point, will head back to pedants' corner].

I've just been through Peterson's Twitter (what a job that was, I didn't know anyone tweeted that frequently), he's got about 5 different tweets in the last 24 hours, some are straight retweets of other people's opinions and others are his own commentary, he seems to be careful what he's actually saying, but it comes across that he thinks the allegations against RB are convenient bullshit designed to bring down someone who might be onto something, and he also retweeted the one about how no one on Epstein's list ever got investigated because it didn't serve any purpose. Not sure if any of that counts as "offering support" though.

Oh dear. I'll watch and wait.

I enjoyed the article. Thanks for the link BrontëParsonage. It's an interesting point that Brand hasn't changed but that his apologists have.

Was Brand a guest editor on the NS back when he was acting all left wing?

My memory is not great late mind you.

Yes, it was discussed in private eye this week. It's when he was having an affair with Jemima Khan. She was the editor at the time.

There's a whole Private Eye this week article mocking all the media outlets - the Guardian etc. - who all conveniently forget they employed Brand while castigating him.

Thanks OP for the article - enjoyed it. Always good to remind people of the horseshoe theory and that conspiracy nutters nominally on the far right are basically identical to conspiracy nutters on the far left. Blaming everything on shadowy elites is always dodgy, no matter who is doing it.

A good article by Jonathan Freedland today in the Guardian about Murdoch leading this trend too: Rupert Murdoch’s toxic legacy? The powerful can now blame the world’s ills on ‘the elite’ | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian