Mailwatch(ed) Forum

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 6:37 pm
Didn't the Sunday Times investigage PPE?

Yep.

They've done surprisingly good work including on PPE.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gove ... -r6hwfckdr

Government ‘panic-bought £200m of PPE from Michelle Mone-linked firm’

But "funny you aren't mentioning X" doesn't have to be true. And these people like to forget that they learned about X from the MSM.

A view bouncing around that Brand’s transformation into a conspiracy theorist was a game plan to claim the establishment are out to get him when the shit hit the fan. That’s a lot of effort for a flimsy long shot but he is a fucking idiot. But with expensive lawyers who can better shield him than Larry Fox and fuckwits on Twitter.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:26 pm Might be worth giving Russell Brand his own thread, particularly since C4 Dispatches is about to run a major expose of some "very serious allegations" of abuse against him .

Brand is a strange character. I never found him remotely funny as a comedian - more deeply, deeply tedious, rather- and in recent years he has re-invented himself as some sort of conspiracy theory espousing crank. Still desperately tedious.

TBH when I first heard that Brand was to be the subject of a Dispatches special regarding some rather unpleasant allegations about him, my first reaction was...



...but as for Brand & his career in general, I've only ever really found him tolerable at best, and that was back at least a decade ago. Never found him "ha ha" funny, just a guy whom had obvious narcissism with a God-like complex and attention seeking problems that would at some point would likely catch up with him - and it looks like now could be the point. He was off-putting as much as anything, you could say that Ed Milliband appearing on camera with Brand during the 2015 election campaign could well have cost Labour more votes than have gained from Brand's endorsement.

As for his acting career, any Hollywood flick I seen him in had Brand essentially play himself, which is not exactly a difficult thing to do in most cases.

Katy Perry's probably glad she eventually dodged that bullet.

satnav wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:37 pm Laurence Fox is posting some utter crap on X. In one post he claims to have dirt on lots of celebrities and he says that he will dish the dirt if any of these celebs get 'all high and mighty ' about Brand. <snip>

Just shows that having a voice like Fox's doesn't mean you can't be a complete slabber. Really hope he's eventually put into a position to put up or shut up.

Spoonman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:39 pm
Just shows that having a voice like Fox's doesn't mean you can't be a complete slabber. Really hope he's eventually put into a position to put up or shut up.

He's never going to have to make that choice. He'll just say "certain people I could mention have been very quiet, because they know what I have on them".

Which brings us back to Fox apparently sitting on credible allegations of sexual offences (or what?) and not doing anything about them, which is what his pals accuse the BBC of with Savile.

Wonder what Fox has got on Whotton?

There, I admit it; I still don't know who Fox is, or more accurately, was. To me, he's just another rodent-faced twat on Twitter.

Was he ever famous enough to be a bit rapey and get away with it?

I know these are random Twitter dudes, but this is a good one. Within a few posts it's "I don't care about Weinstein, you brought him up, not me".

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:51 pm There, I admit it; I still don't know who Fox is, or more accurately, was. To me, he's just another rodent-faced twat on Twitter.

Was he ever famous enough to be a bit rapey and get away with it?

He was the Sergeant to Kevin Whately's Inspector Lewis, and pretty good in the role. Didn't have Savile-Weinstein stature, so you'd think. More likely he's there for anyone who's on his side as a conspiracy goon.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 5:00 pm Odd that GBNews are defending him, they appear to have forgotten about his support for Corbyn and his phone call to Andrew Sachs.

Rapey Russell, Degenerate Dan - they're accumulating quite a collection.

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:51 pm There, I admit it; I still don't know who Fox is, or more accurately, was. To me, he's just another rodent-faced twat on Twitter.

Was he ever famous enough to be a bit rapey and get away with it?

Coincidentally we're in the middle of binge watching (Inspector Morse sequel) "Lewis" in which Fox plays Kevin Whately's sidekick Sgt Hathaway which is probably his best known role.

The only other thing I recall seeing him in was "Island At War", a 1990s drama about the occupation of the Channel Islands in WW2 in which he played a Luftwaffe pilot - much sniggering at him strutting about in a Nazi uniform.

Whilst he may not be in the same league as his thespian relatives, he wasn't a bad actor and if he hadn't had his meltdown would be presumably still getting good gigs today.

No idea if he was ever "a bit rapey" though.

A regular fave of mine. He didn't break the law but the girll should have gone to the Police.

Brand was alright in Death on the Nile, mainly because he was following a script, and surrounded by proper actors (Branagh, Bening, Gadot etc). Come to think of it, Armie Hammer was in that too. That's another one going in the Spacey file then.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:19 pm Brand was alright in Death on the Nile, mainly because he was following a script, and surrounded by proper actors (Branagh, Bening, Gadot etc). Come to think of it, Armie Hammer was in that too. That's another one going in the Spacey file then.

erm, Kevin Spacey was cleared of all charges.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/26/uk/k ... .%E2%80%9D

Fox was rather good in a more recent drama White Lines, OK actor, terrible human being.

The Fake Vicar has spoken. Another sighting of "only the police can investigate" with some Kelvin Mackenzie "millions read The Sun every day", and the strong implication that the accusers are making it all up.

If only there were some kind of laws to protect famous people from the MSM libeling them.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:43 pm If only there were some kind of laws to protect famous people from the MSM libeling them.

Talking of which, I see Dan Wootton's stuck on £39k.

The programme'a hitting Channel 4 and BBC pretty hard. I wonder if any of Brand's defenders are thinking they might have chosen the wrong side.

Another winner. What about the Notting Hill Carnival?