Neither Brand or Walliams were 'lads' or exemplars of 'lad culture'. They were overtly effeminate & camp heterosexual men who were subversive of traditional masculinity. One of the main reasons they were indulged & covered for by progressives. Despite being sexual predators.

A message from Jack…

RT @post_liberal: The two Everton CB’s (Tarkowski & Branthwaite) should be starting for England ahead of Burn & Quansah. Burn isn’t even a…

Fury as UK 'nominates Iran' to key UN committee overseeing counterterrorism - after Ed Miliband's handshake with Tehran minister trib.al/DM9hqUh

What is going on with the grooming gangs scandal? 18 months ago, the govt conceded 'words are not enough - victims and survivors need action'. But the authorities are *still* not collecting ethnicity data
dailymail.com/news/article-1… via @DailyMail

The media is obsessed with slimeball celebrity predators- latest allegations are against David Walliams - while Maggie Oliver has to sue the government to get action for tens of thousands of victims of Pakistani rape gangs.

I know which story I think is more important.
@MaggieOliverUK

Improving educational outcomes for white working-class children is not 'just the responsibility of schools but calls for action from across society'. So says Baroness Morris, the Blair-era educational secretary heading up an independent inquiry into the matter.

The first phase ch was published in June, found that 'the education system is not set up to serve white working-class children and families'.

The report looked at the differences in performance between white children in receipt of free school meals (FSM) and those who are not. By Key Stage 4, the attainment gap between white FSM pupils and all non-FSM pupils is 50 per cent.

In the league table of FSM pupils achieving grade four or higher in English and mathematics, the category 'white British' comes third from bottom, with just 36 per cent reaching this level, compared to Chinese (85 per cent), Indian (68 per cent), Bangladeshi (68 per cent), Black African (62 per cent) and 'other Asian' (61 per cent).

✍️ Stephen Daisley

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There’s something tragically amusing about right-wingers chastising our industrial heartlands - gutted by the global free market capitalism they cheered on - for not being “productive”.

July 1: Andy Burnham asks the Home and Foreign secretaries to "review all possible options" to deport the ringleader of notorious Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed.
November 10: His official spokesman says he has "no update on that individual case. It is one for the Home Office. We are exploring every option in that case". @GBNEWS
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Labour’s Lucy Powell, trying to explain why she was complicit on Ed Miliband interview with Brand in 2015, says a)it was before social media; and b) there was no easy way of checking on people in these days.
Which is strange since a) she’d been on social media since 2009 and by 2015 it was in full swing; and b) Google has been available since 2000.
Other than that her explanation is entirely credible.

We weren't in the social media age in 2015 says Lucy Powell, someone who tweeted adoringly about Russell Brand - who had been talking publicly about his sexual exploits for more than a decade by then - years before that date
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Lucy Powell on the Ed Miliband Russell Brand interview

Sophy Ridge: In 2015, Ed Miliband was interviewed by Russell Brand. And he was invited over to his house to do it. It's been reported that you were the one who set up the interview. Is that true and do you regret it?

Lucy Powell: Look, I mean, it wasn't quite like that. It was a long time ago, obviously. And had I or Ed Miliband or anybody at the time had any sense at all that this was someone who was a sexual predator, who was involved in these sorts of crimes or any allegations that were known at the time, then, of course, that interview I'm sure would not have happened, history would have been very, very, different. Those things unfortunately, weren't known at the time. But I think, like anybody who paid to go to his show or watched him on TV, or who was his employer at the time, who had interactions with him, anybody, including those of us who were involved in that at the time,would look back and really regret that, knowing today what we now know

Sophy Ridge: You were campaign chief, did you set it up? Were you involved in the process?

Lucy Powell: Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren't in the social media age at the time - where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn't know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.

If ‘Hello I’m fucking mental’ were a tweet.

It’s all the fault of white working class lads. Nothing to do with middle class tossers, who did media studies at university, and got a job at the BBC, because they had a relative employed there. The left-wingers fawned over Russell Brand, they made him, and need to own it…

Beyond parody. Russell Brand advising the British Legislature on its drugs policy, chaired by Keith Vaz. How did we get here?

Russell Brand — hero of the Guardian nomenklatura.

In 2015, James O'Brien mocked & disbelieved the women accusers of Russell Brand. OB called it 'a hatchet job'

At this moment now, O'Brien is over on Bluesky taking about, "how it took extraordinary courage for those victims to come forward"
O'Brien is an awful man🧐
#OBINGO @LBC

.@katyperry Katy, what the hell were you thinking when you married loser Russell Brand. There is a guy who has got nothing going, a waste!

Wasn't just Miliband...