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Russell Brand: End the Drugs War, BBC 3 at 9pm

He's a lighting rod for the people's discontents, just like every other politician, only difference with him is that he can deal with that
 
Remember when he wanked off a male stranger in a public lavatory.

To think a decade or so from then I'd see him on Question Time trying to play the role of some great political sage.

All the while looking rather unkempts, sporting a blazer with a dress shirt unbuttoned beneath it and his chest hair exposed. Perhaps someone should have informed Russell he was featuring on a respectable programme and not preparing for some crass pornographic video shoot.
 
Hes fairly narrow minded when it comes to treatment tho - he sees abstinence as the only way to manage drug and alcohol dependancy - this is all very well intended as its wats worked for him but it discounts the many people who have managed to get their lives stable and productive again through the use of substitute maintenance treatments and controlled drinking and the like. Horses for courses.
 
"Remember when he wanked off a male stranger in a public lavatory."

I'm surprised at your homophobic comment Los Blancos,
Saw your pic in the photos thread (Chubby guy, bodybuilding?)
and assumed you were gay yourself.
 
I didn't see this, but i don't really agree with his emphasis on abstinence when i've heard him talk about it - it worked for him, but not many others it seems (though at the same time i feel a bit uneasy with drug companies making such a profit out of the NHS from people's drug problems). If it's always kept as an option it's okay, but weren't the tories talking about bringing abstinence only programs in - i guess they must realise the trouble that'll give them (but then they seem to like that sort of thing so they can cry 'bwoken bwitain' and 'hell in a hand cart')

I think the Trews is excellent though - a breath of fresh air in media land - and the flak he gets from the established media (as well as people with LosBlancos' politics) means he must be doing something right.

(BHM - maybe you can open another thread to tell me why global warming isn't real (but using science papers and not blogs))
 
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I used to quite like Russel Brand and watched several of his Trews broadcasts on you tube but I can't quite get over the sneaking suspicion that he sometimes (or maybe quite often) tries to disguise his arguments lacking in real substance by using an unnecessarily complex and sometimes bizarre vocabulary. Didn't he just get some kind of faux-award from some academics for his misuse of language and general talking bollocks? He has a habit of using 10 words when 2 would do. Despite all this, I quite like him. Remember that show he did called (I think) Ponderland? ....funny as fuck!!
 
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I think the Trews is excellent though - a breath of fresh air in media land - and the flak he gets from the established media (as well as people with LosBlancos' politics) means he must be doing something right.
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Me too, been keeping up to date with them for awhile, he talks sense
 
Well i quite like his clumsy over-verbosity myself (and it's often brilliant and funny imo) - i don't think it's contrived i think he just talks like that (i do a bit myself) - makes a change from the anti-intellectualism that is often encouraged among the 'common folk' in our popular culture. He usually refers to other more 'clever' people for his actual arguments (Graeber, Piketty, Klein etc).
 
Came out with a video on the Australian hostage situation, had a similar one on the shootings in Canada.

I wonder how many video's he will put out on "isolated" incidents, and do his best to distance them from a radical ideology.

The epitome of Champagne Socialist. It's funny that Mr. Farage gets flak for his history as a successful businessman, oh the horror someone who isn't a career politician or better yet a comedian whose skits included wanking a stranger off in a public lavatory.
 
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A background as a successful business man (ie hedge fund-ist) and public school is the problem with farridge - just like most of the rest of the tory party - it means he will tend to represent the interests of capitalists rather than the common man (pint or not (and it's usually champagne when the cameras are off)). I can relate to the background of russel, being a poor person - that's more than can be said for politicians on any side (except a handful of old labours).

RBs trews episodes on the middle east have been on the whole spot on imo, dealing fully with radical ideology and it's relationship (or not) to actual islam - he's obvbiously got someone doing good research if he's not doing it himself ('good' meaning the same sort of sources i read of course). You seem quite keen to keep going on about the toilet wanking - is it a fantasy of yours? ;) I've thought/think the bloke's a knobhead, but i'm listening to what he's saying now, not rooting around in his past for things not to like, and i think what he's saying is sound (because i agree with it of course).
 
Thought it was pretty good stuff overall. As others have said, I don't agree with his 12 Steps-only approach but can't find fault with anything else he is saying. If only BBC3 (and other channels) did more drug docs like this than that godawful one with the DJ that was also on recently. So nice to see a drug doc that doesn't just grub about in ignorance and sensationalism whilst concurrently tacitly advertising the very worst type of drug use.
 
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