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It's tempting to believe that QAnon just fizzled out, but its tenets became GOP orthodoxy. Q never needs to make new posts, because the conspiracy brainworms and busy work paranoia it mainstreamed are how conservatives think now. I wrote a book about it.
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That time the BBC spelled Bram Stokers name hilariously wrong for their Audio Book:
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RT @OlaWikander: This shit has to stop. AI risks killing all attempts at meritocracy. People will get chaired professorships based on slop…
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NEW POST: The Russell Brand “Political Prosecution” Conspiracy Theories barthsnotes.com/2026/11/08/the…
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The "impression is that in substance this wasn’t a harassment injunction at all. It was a libel injunction in disguise. That’s an attractive strategy for a claimant because libel defendants can raise the defence of truth; harassment defendants cannot". taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/11/07/rus…
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Our full report is here, including a complete copy of the injunction (minus the Confidential Schedule) and three appeal documents.
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Three minutes after Pete Hegseth tweeted "Patriots in control" (a foundational QAnon slogan), Putin ally/Kremlin propagandist Kirill Dmitriev tweeted "WWG1WGA" (another foundational QAnon slogan).
They know what they're doing. This has activated the QAnon crowd to a degree that g time.
They know what they're doing. This has activated the QAnon crowd to a degree that g time.
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@BearGrylls You were a big part of his publicity campaign to portray himself as a godly person. You didn't have to do it all in front of the camera. Yet you did.
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Russell Brand's April 2025 video "response" to being charged is a good example of narcissistic overreach - utterly obnoxious and unconvincing, yet in his mind he imagined it would charm and persuade. The reference to Southport particularly repels. x.com/rustyrockets/s…
My response.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Lots of misunderstanding here. An appeal from a jury verdict in our system is not a re-trial. The last thing the appeal judges would do is substitute their opinion of the evidence for the jury’s. The verdicts have to be shown to be unsafe & unsatisfactory due to eg:
• a biased or erroneous summing up
• prejudice arising from pre-trial reporting or trial coverage
• new evidence not available during the trial
and so on.
I should say the chances on appeal in this one would be pretty grim, given that pretty much the whole case turned on the jury’s assessment of the oral evidence.
• a biased or erroneous summing up
• prejudice arising from pre-trial reporting or trial coverage
• new evidence not available during the trial
and so on.
I should say the chances on appeal in this one would be pretty grim, given that pretty much the whole case turned on the jury’s assessment of the oral evidence.
I don’t like suggesting this but I have a feeling that the Brand verdict may be overturned on appeal. The charges are very difficult to prove conclusively. The Defence counsel (not a charmer!) did make a reasonably credible case.
The Jury rejected it for four of the charges but not for two where Brand was Not Guilty. This suggests that the extent of his illegal behaviour is at the very least disputed under the law.
It’s worth reading Winter KC’s closing address to the Jury which is well argued. We may dismiss it as clever advocacy and highly selective but that happens in adversarial argument. He’s a very experienced and successful barrister !
Finally, as ever, consider if there is “reasonable doubt” . An appeal court may well find that there is.
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Watch as the hard cope creeps across the Atlantic, infecting the brainrotted simpletons of Albion
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I had a feeling that Donald Trump was up to something. It seems the Democrats will have all their election fraud exposed in one fail swoop.
You are going to jail.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
I wrote this back in September 2023. I think it stands the test of time. All I'd add is my admiration for the women who came forward to speak both to journalists back then and in court this autumn. davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/whose-fault-…
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When an allegation appears in the media there should not be a rush to judgment, but it is unrealistic to say that one cannot form a reasoned view that there may be a case to answer unless/until there has been a trial.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
The Russell Brand charging decision is perfectly explicable without recourse to a bizarre and extravagant suggestion that police investigators and/or the Crown Prosecution Service took acount of his views on "politics and Covid"
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It's deliberately obtuse, of course - he understands the concept that an allegation may be true but judged not be beyond reasonable doubt, but goes on to suggest (not based on anything said in court) that "not guilty" means that the jury made a finding of false allegation.
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Dan Wootton 2024: "mostly right-wing personalities are a focus of police regardless of the lack of evidence or credibility from accusers driven by overwhelming malice. I mean, Russell Brand, just another recent example."
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Laurence Fox refers to "the two women who as far as the jury are concerned have falsely accused [Russell Brand] of rape" (4.59), in a "just asking questions" statement in which he hedges and affects confusion and doubt while engaging minimally with details x.com/LozzaFox/statu…
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It's deliberately obtuse, of course - he understands the concept that an allegation may be true but judged not be beyond reasonable doubt, but goes on to suggest (not based on anything said in court) that "not guilty" means that the jury made a finding of false allegation.
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