Russell Brand does a Bono

The New Stateman's choice of guest editor was hardly surprising.

It was probably a shrewd idea to ask Russell Brand to edit an edition of the New Statesman magazine. It will have tripled the magazine's circulation to about 27, said Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times, once "all [of] Russell's exes and his fan club" bought copies.

One of Brand's bugbears "is the humourless moral superiority of the bien-pensant left, which he thinks is a hindrance to the cause. He does not understand that it is actually indivisible from its cause."

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