Russell Brand Triggers A Revolution At The New Statesman
COMPARE and contrast The New Statesman’s reporting on Russell Brand.
24 October, 2013, Russell Brand edited an issue of The New Statesman.
Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman, said:
We’re delighted to be working with someone as entertaining, inquisitive and provocative as Russell Brand on this special issue of the New Statesman. With contributors ranging from Judd Apatow to Naomi Klein, the edition will be witty, intelligent and surprising. I mean, looks-wise, he’s no Ken Livingstone, but you can’t have everything.
The cover you can see above.
Back then, Brand was dating Jemima Khan, the magazine’s associate editor.
He isn’t any longer. But he is still appearing in the mag.
3 November 2014:
Stuff your revolution if it doesn’t include treating women as people If you want radicalism in politics, it has to start with feminism. Russell Brand, clown that he is, is taken seriously by an awful lot of young men who see any criticism of the cartoon messiah’s misogyny as a derail from “the real issues” (whatever they are). The fans claim they love Brand despite the fact that he talks about women as poisoned birds of paradise, sucubus-like vultures or material accoutrements of wealth… The men who love Brand love him because his “revolution” promises with chirpy vagueness to overturn every hierarchy – apart from the hierarchy of men over women, which Brand specifically and concretely reinforces.
It a revolution…
Posted: 6th, November 2014 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
