The Jolly Heretic with Prof Edward Dutton

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What the Right gets Wrong about the Trial of Russell Brand

Nov 12, 2026
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The conviction of Russell Brand for the offences of anal rape and sexual assault committed, in some cases, around 20 years ago has caused yet another unhelpful divide among conservatives. Some people, myself included, take the view that Brand’s conviction involves a Narcissistic and unpleasant leftist finally getting what he deserves. Others accept his conversion to being a conservative commentator and born again Christian and argue that it was this abandonment of the Left that resulted in them digging up hearsay evidence and taking vengeance on him. As I’ve discussed in an earlier article and in a recent video, “converts” do not seem to genuinely change. Their underlying mentally unstable and anti-social psychology remains the same whether they move from the far left to the far right or the far right to far left.

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