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On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault. I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking. She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police. 🧵:

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This is shocking. "The injunction was supposed to prevent harassment [of Brand], but it went well beyond that. It prohibits Ms Berki from telling anyone what she says happened to her – not journalists, not friends, not family, and not even the police." taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/11/07/r...

Russell Brand’s secret injunction: the order that silenced his accuser

The never-published High Court order Russell Brand won in 2015: a lifelong gag on his accuser, Sylvie Berki, that bars her even from speaking to the police.

taxpolicy.org.uk

"In September, 400 masked men blocked the port of Dover. We were the first to identify them as Patriot Platform, a new anti-migrant vigilante network. It now has 29 affiliate groups across England ..." Read more about Patriot Platform: hopenothate.org.uk/patriot-plat... via Hope Not Hate

Who are Patriot Platform?

Patriot Platform is a growing far-right anti-migrant network founded in June 2026 by Daniel ‘Danny Tommo’ Thomas, a close associate of Tommy Robinson. Bringing together dozens of local groups under a ...

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it seems like the new popular centrist take is that Abdul El-Sayed "underperformed" relative to other Dems, which is apparently proof socialism doesn't work rather than the result of $200M of negative ads being constantly run against him over the last year.

TEXAS: I love that people are taking two years of pent up pain and fear and channeling it into the only real power average citizens have: electing leaders who give a fuck about our pain. 🤍🗳 An election day is the most powerful day in an ordinary person's life. Use that power when you have it.

“As Russell Brand was taken down to the cells, his barrister Ian Winter KC confronted a Sunday Times journalist who had worked on the 2023 Dispatches investigation containing allegations against Brand in the corridor outside Court 3. "I hope you are pleased with yourself," he told her”” …

On LBC, environment secretary Dame Angela Eagle claimed the UK and US “do £2.5 billion of business together between our two economies”. But the annual value of UK/US trade is far higher than that - the latest official figures put it at £333.9 billion.

What’s the value of the UK’s trade with the US? – Full Fact

On LBC, environment secretary Dame Angela Eagle claimed the UK and US “do £2.5 billion of business together”—but the latest figures put the annual value of UK/US trade at over 100 times that.

fullfact.org