Brand’s Manifesto

Russell Brand was mostly known for bad American comedies and his relationship with Katy Perry. Then he went on Jeremy Paxman’s show and started talking about international politics—how everything’s fucked, what needs to change. The thing that got me was that he wasn’t half-assing it. He’d thought about this stuff. The post suggests he should write a manifesto, make it formal, structured. Whether Brand has the depth for that is debatable. But there’s something there, some restlessness with the way things are that actually sounded sincere.