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Brand claims that the UK Government and "the media" are out to get him!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's an interesting suggestion by Matthew D'Ancona in TNE that Brand's actions of recent years in embracing far-right personalities, promoting a range of online conspiracy theories and building a weird cult of personality around himself are a direct response to the #MeToo movement emerging six years ago - knowing that eventually his own actions would come to light and so he needed to build a 'digital stockade' of useful idiots who would jump to his defence when the time came.

Now THAT'S a conspiracy theory I can buy into...