22:48 Wednesday 23rd October 2013
Newsnight BBC2
[J]EREMY PAXMAN: Now guess who wrote this. “When people talk about politics within the existing Westminster framework, I feel a dull thud in my stomach, and my eyes involuntarily glaze, like when I’m conversing and the subject changes from me and moves on to another topic.” The combination of distaste for mainstream politics and overweening vanity identifies it immediately as the work of Russell Brand, comedian, actor and now it seems, political theorist. For is there no limit to the man’s talents? He’s now guest editor of the venerable left-wing magazine The New Statesman. He wants a revolution he says. Russell Brand, who are you to edit a political magazine?
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