Re: Brand

It has been four weeks since Dispatches was watched by fewer than one third as many people as watched Russell Brand every day even then, never mind now. Brand has never so much as been brought in for questioning, much less arrested.

If there was ever any suggestion of an investigation into allegations of sexual assault, then there no longer is, and if they cannot even make harassment stick, then they really do have nothing, since a Bench of Magistrates will automatically convict anyone of harassment on the say-so of someone who was well enough connected that the Crown Prosecution Service would take up her case. There is also no sign of any attempt to extradite Brand to California.

As from the first, I say that Brand's anonymised and voiced up accusers on the state broadcasting networks, and in what are always the Government of the day's semi-official Murdoch papers, simply do not exist. Prove me wrong.

And for 20 years, the law on sexual offences has been governed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which is the crowning glory of Harriet Harman, the preeminent British feminist politician of the Baby Boom. Any complaint about its operation should be addressed to her.