Russell Brand CHARGED on five counts: Justice or a grifter’s retribution?



On April 4, British actor, podcaster, and media personality Russell Brand was charged by London's Metropolitan Police with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape, and two counts of sexual assault. These charges are connected to alleged incidents that took place between 1999 and 2005 and involved four different women.

His charges are not related to the four women featured in the Channel 4 “Dispatches” exposé “Russell Brand: In Plain Sight” that aired in September 2023, accusing Brand of sexual misconduct between 2006 and 2013. The documentary sparked investigations that remain ongoing, with the Crown Prosecution Service still reviewing evidence as of April 2025.

Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs of “Normal World” are doubly suspicious. Are these charges brought against Brand really about justice for the alleged victims, or is this just retaliation for his outspokenness against the British government?

Second, is Brand’s conservative political activism and Christian conversion authentic, or is he just grifting?

“This, of course, has everything to do with justice for his alleged victims and nothing to do whatsoever with Brand's current public platform and political affiliations. No one in the U.K. would ever look the other way at a popular figure's sexual improprieties or anything of the such,” says Dave sarcastically, pointing to Jimmy Savile — “the Mr. Rogers of the U.K.” — whose heinous sexual crimes were overlooked or ignored due to his celebrity status and institutional protection.

In a video, Brand, responding to his charges, said:

“We’re very fortunate, I suppose, that this is happening at a time where we know that the law has become a kind of weapon to be used against people.”

“I’ve always told you guys that when I was young and single, before I had my wife and family, I was a fool, man. I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord. I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an imbecile, but what I never was was a rapist. I’ve never engaged in nonconsensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes.”

Dave and the panel don’t buy into Brand’s faith. After all, he promoted a $240 amulet that supposedly protects against Wi-Fi signals and wards off other evil energies.

“You said you switched to Christianity, which is great ... but at the same time, he's a huge influencer, and then he starts selling amulets, and you're like, ‘Wait a second, where are you going with this?"’ says Garrett.

“I did do a show with him earlier last year. He was on the RFK [Jr.] show,” and “he stayed away from me, Rob Schneider, Jeff Dye,” says Dave. “He had a Christ complex about him, and I didn't like him.”

Angela thinks that the timing of Brand’s conversion is suspicious.

“He took this turn right at a time when people were starting to accuse him of things, and it seemed like he was coming to a side that would maybe be more forgiving towards him about this kind of stuff. ... He's just an opportunist,” she says.

Despite their collective dislike and distrust of Brand, Garrett says he will “separate [his] dislike of [Brand’s] griftiness and if he's guilty or not.”

“If he's innocent, I hope he's exonerated ... and if he’s guilty, throw him in jail,” he says.

To hear more of the panel’s commentary, watch the episode above.

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Former Columbia University fellow, a current UN judge, found guilty of forcing young woman into slavery



An African U.N. Criminal Tribunal judge who was a fellow at Columbia University and has written extensively about human rights has been convicted of slavery.

Lydia Mugambe, a 49-year-old Ugandan living in Kidlington, England, was found guilty Thursday by a unanimous Oxford Crown Court jury of conspiring to violate U.K. immigration law; "requiring a person to perform force or compulsory labor"; conspiracy to intimidate a witness; and arranging travel for another person "with a view to exploitation."

Besides her work for the U.N., the African slaver has been a judge of the High Court of Uganda and a member of several professional associations, including the Oxford Human Rights Hub and the International Association of Women Judges.

Mugambe's virtue-signaling and judicial activism regarding "gender-based justice" earned her the so-called People's Choice Gavel Award from Women's Link Worldwide in 2017. According to a 2022 piece in Stellar Woman magazine celebrating the slaver's supposed accomplishments, Mugambe also won the Vera Chirwa human rights award of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, for her work "ensuring gender-based justice in Africa."

Columbia University, no stranger to criminals and extremists, notes on its website that the slaver was a fellow at its Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2017.

"Lydia Mugambe used her position to exploit a vulnerable young woman, controlling her freedom and making her work without payment," Eran Cutliffe, special prosecutor for the Crown Prosecutor Services' Special Crime Division, said in a statement. "Modern slavery and the exploitation of people by others for their own purposes has no place in modern society."

'Mugambe used her position of power as well as her knowledge of the law to take advantage of the victim.'

The Thames Valley Police received a tip on Feb. 10, 2023, that Mugambe was holding a young woman as a slave at her residence in Kidlingon. According to police, Mugambe obtained a visa for the victim to work in the U.K. with the understanding that the victim would work for the deputy high commissioner at the Ugandan Embassy in London, John Mugerwa — and receive compensation for doing so.

The former Columbia fellow paid for the victim's plane ticket, picked her up from the airport, then forced her into slavery. The victim was forced to perform the functions of a domestic maid and nanny without pay.

The Crown Prosecution Service indicated that Mugambe stole the victim's passport, biometric visa card, and phone, thereby isolating and grounding her.

According to the prosecution, Mugerwa was in on the scheme and facilitated the victim's visa knowing that she was destined for slavery. In return for his help getting her a slave, Mugambe would provide the deputy high commissioner with help in a court case back in Uganda, said the prosecutors.

While there was apparently ample evidence of Mugerwa's conspiracy with Mugambe to enslave a fellow African, the deputy high commissioner had diplomatic immunity, which his government decided not to waive.

Chief Superintendent Ben Clark of the Thames Valley Police said in a statement that given her experience as a lawyer and U.N. Criminal Tribunal judge, "there is no doubt that she knew she was committing offenses by bringing the victim to the U.K. under the pretense that she was going to work for the then Deputy High Commissioner at the Ugandan Embassy in London, thus providing her a legal route of entry, but knowing all along that she intended to make the victim work in servitude."

"Mugambe used her position of power as well as her knowledge of the law to take advantage of the victim, ensuring that she would become her unpaid domestic servant," added Clark.

According to the chief superintendent, Mugambe tried to use her affiliations with the U.N. and the Ugandan High Court as way to avoid accountability for enslaving a woman.

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UK speech lords back down as US tariffs loom



The U.K.'s Online Safety Act has been the source of a lot of controversy in recent months, but recent tariff threats from the Trump administration have forced the U.K. to reconsider its role in online censorship.

Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party and prime minister of the U.K., has reportedly “signaled to Washington that [the U.K.] is open to revising the controversial and dangerous Online Safety Act.”

Setting aside the obvious threat to free speech that this act poses, the potential financial burden on US companies has strained trade relations between the UK and the US.

While trade and free speech may not immediately seem to be connected, opponents of the Online Safety Act have argued that tech platforms may face potentially heavy financial burdens in order to comply with the law. Companies would face “substantial financial penalties” for failing to take down “harmful content” on their platforms.

One of the major points of criticism of the act, which claims to seek to “keep everyone safe online,” is that the language used is hopelessly vague. Critics have claimed that this vagueness would lead to over-enforcement, among other issues.

In order to avoid these penalties, companies would likely be forced to adopt new strategies for monitoring content on their platforms. For example, some have warned that companies will be forced to pre-emptively censor speech in order to comply. This strategy has been dubbed the “when in doubt, cut it out” approach by critics.

Setting aside the obvious threat to free speech that this act poses, the potential financial burden on U.S. companies has strained trade relations between the U.K. and the U.S.

The punitive measures of the act are potentially very harmful to U.S. tech companies. Companies that fail to comply with the moderation rules made by Ofcom may be “fined up to £18 million or 10 per cent of their global revenue.”

Andrew Hale, a trade policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, noted that this conflict has strained the possibility of the U.S. and the U.K. striking a trade deal: “Every meeting I have to discuss trade policy with people either in the administration or in Congress ... they always [say], ‘This is a huge roadblock.’”

Elon Musk, the owner of X and a vocal opponent of the Online Safety Act for both of these reasons, has “recently welcomed Trump’s presidency as a potential counterweight to the U.K.’s regulatory crackdown.”

Trump’s tariff threats against the U.K. have forced this reconsideration of the enforcement of the Online Safety Act.

Some people saw the results of this inevitable standoff in advance. For example, Lord Toby Young of Acton, the founder of Free Speech Union, reportedly said, “If [this confrontation] happens, Trump will side with his tech bros and tell Sir Keir that if he wants a trade deal, he’ll call off his dogs.”

The fight is far from over, however. Labour and the Online Safety Act’s proponents have created a repressive regime that stifles free speech. The Online Safety Act is simply the boldest attempt to censor free expression. A source close to the Trump administration reportedly said, “To many people in power, they feel the United Kingdom has become a dystopian, Orwellian place where people have to keep silent about things that aren’t fashionable.”

Trump and his “tech bros” are giving Labour a final opportunity to step away from these free speech attacks. With new powers set to be granted to Ofcom in March of this year, now is the time to put continuous pressure on the U.K. government to ease off its draconian speech laws.

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Vance bashes UK censorship — this time with gaslighting prime minister just feet away



Vice President JD Vance put other Western nations on blast earlier this month at the Munich Security Conference over their aggressive suppression of speech and routine attacks on religious liberties. Vance noted that when it comes to Britain, free speech "is in retreat," citing as an example British Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor's conviction and fining last year for silent prayer.

The vice president proved again Thursday that he is no shrinking violet, reissuing his critique of the U.K.'s censorship regime — this time face-to-face with leftist British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office.

A reporter asked about Vance's previous suggestion that the U.K. and European nations are backsliding on what were once shared values with the United States. President Donald Trump responded, "Let's go, JD. We're putting you on stage."

"We do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the U.K. and also our European allies, but we also know there have been infringements on free speech that affect not just the British — what the British do in their own country is up to them — but also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens," said Vance.

'We champion free speech in the United Kingdom.'

The vice president's allusion to foreign censorship of Americans might be in reference to the Starmer government's recent demand that Apple dismantle its encryption and provide law enforcement access to the iCloud data of users worldwide. The Washington Post reported that this secret order was issued in January under the U.K. Investigatory Powers Act by Starmer's home secretary.

The U.K.-based Free Speech Union noted that recent amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act also expanded Britain's ability to demand data from foreign tech firms, which could end up impacting Americans.

Starmer, evidently prickled by Vance's observations, tried painting a rosier picture, saying, "We've had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom, and it will last for a very, very long time."

After suggesting that London would not want to "reach across" and impact American citizens, Starmer said, "But in relation to free speech in the U.K., I'm really proud of that — our history there."

In an interview later with Fox News' Bret Baier, Starmer continued to pretend that censorship is not an issue in his country, stating, "We don't believe in censoring speech, but of course we do need to deal with terrorism. We need to deal with pedophiles and issues like that."

"[Vance] is right to champion free speech," continued Starmer. "We champion free speech in the United Kingdom."

'People might think they're not doing anything harmful. They are.'

Recent incidents in Britain besides Smith-Connor's conviction cast doubt on the veracity of Starmer's assertion.

A Christian singer was accosted by law enforcement in January 2024 for daring to sing gospel music "outside of church grounds."

Lee Joseph Dunn of Egremont, England, was charged with posting offensive content and handed an immediate eight-week jail sentence for posting memes online. Dunn shared an image of a large group of Middle Eastern men at a British crab fair in July with the caption, "Coming to a town near you." Dunn also shared an image of Middle Eastern men wielding knives in front of the Palace of Westminster near a crying child in a Union Jack flag shirt, again captioned, "Coming to a town near you."

Another Englishman was jailed for 12 weeks over a post on Facebook stating, "Filthy bastards," in response to a report that authorities in Cumbria had issued a dispersal order over fears of potential riots.

Former Royal Marine Jamie Michael was arrested, jailed, and denied bail in August after posting a Facebook video criticizing illegal immigration wherein he called illegal aliens "scumbags" and "psychopaths."

Blaze News previously reported that British police arrested an elderly Briton weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks for criticizing the myriad Palestinian flags flown around his neighborhood.

The director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales told Sky News in August that there are "dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for [racially inflammatory] material, and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth."

"People might think they're not doing anything harmful. They are," added Parkinson. "And the consequences will be visited upon them."

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Musk accuses Britain's leftist PM of failing to tackle Pakistani gangs' systematic rape of children



Thousands of British girls were systematically raped, tortured, and trafficked by Pakistani grooming gangs from the late 1980s well into the new millennium. For years, authorities failed to help the victims and hold the pedophilic rapists accountable in part because of "nervousness about race." The British media, rendered largely useless by political correctness and an apparent disinterest in the fate of white, working-class children, similarly dropped the ball and in some cases even suppressed details about the horrific and widespread issue.

Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman, a critic of the "misguided dogma of multiculturalism," noted in September 2023 that the "systematic rape, abuse and exploitation of young girls by organized gangs of older men — and the disgraceful failure of the authorities to act despite ample evidence — is a stain on our country."

Elon Musk generated serious waves Wednesday by suggesting that the recent refusal by the isles' stained Labour government to take a closer look at the historic abuse is connected with the leftist prime minister's apparent failures of yesteryear.

"In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service's approval for the police to charge suspects," Musk tweeted Wednesday. "Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013."

The Financial Times noted that during the time period highlighted by Musk, Starmer served as director of public prosecutions, getting around to prosecuting elements of the Rochdale rape gang only during his final year in the position — after the scandal in Greater Manchester became too great to ignore.

Starmer admitted in 2012 that the rapists had long escaped justice because police, prosecutors, and the courts had failed to understand the nature of the abuse.

"In a number of cases presented to us, particularly in cases involving groups, there's clearly an issue of ethnicity that has to be understood and addressed," Starmer said. "But if we're honest it’s the approach to the victims, the credibility issue, that caused these cases not to be prosecuted in the past. There was a lack of understanding."

The Financial Times indicated that the prime minister's office declined to comment on Musk's accusation.

Hours after suggesting Starmer failed to hold rapists to account as a prosecutor, Musk suggested Starmer's Labour government has since added insult to injury.

"Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer," tweeted Musk. "The real reason she's refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Stamer (head of the CPS at the time)."

Jess Phillips, whom Musk said "deserves to be in prison," has served as Starmer's parliamentary under-secretary of state for safeguarding and violence against women and girls since July.

'It's clear whose side she is on.'

GB News reported that Phillips turned down the Oldham Council executive's request for a formal public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in their borough. Shadow Home Office minister Chris Philp told the BBC that Conservatives backed Oldham Council's request.

In her response, Phillips reportedly suggested that she understands "the strength of feeling that a further inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham should be undertaken" but that "it is for Oldham Council alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the Government to intervene."

Former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Liz Truss noted, "This is Jess Phillips, the same Home Office Minister who excused masked Islamist thugs. Her title 'Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls' is a perversion of the English language. It's clear whose side she is on."

'2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice.'

The Critic echoed Musk's suggestion that Phillips might oppose an inquiry for fear of uncovering "the extent of institutional complicity" but noted further that "one also can't help wondering if Phillips — who, at the last General Election, narrowly triumphed in her heavily Muslim Birmingham Yardley constituency over Jody McIntyre, a Muslim candidate campaigning on the issue of Gaza — fears upsetting her constituents."

Tom Jones, writing for Unherd, suggested that "the reasons for refusing a Government intervention can be disputed, but it cannot be disputed that it is reprehensible. The case for a centralized inquiry is clear: while this request was for Oldham alone, there has been a rape gang scandal in over 50 British towns and cities. This is a staggering scale of depravity, and most cases are marked by close resemblances in their systematic nature."

Jones noted further that the government has the resources, authority, and backing necessary to launch a proper inquiry, not to mention the distance that would be lacking should the council in Oldham investigate its own conduct.

While the Starmer government appears uninterested in pursuing answers in Oldham, Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, noted Thursday morning, "The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal."

"Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years but no one in authority has joined the dots," wrote Badenoch. "2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice."

Chris Philp told the BBC, "We need a proper national inquiry to look at all of these issues across all of the towns affected. And I'm afraid to say there are something like, you know, 15 to 25 different towns involved, covering thousands and thousands of victims."

Philp noted further that the inquiry should examine why the pedophile rape gangs were "overwhelmingly of South Asian background."

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'Unacceptable safety risk': Puberty blockers permanently banned in UK



The United Kingdom announced this week that it is pulling the pin on an experiment that may have had adverse effects on children's bone density, cognitive performance, emotional stability, and future fertility.

National Health Service England announced in March that minors would no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at so-called gender-identity clinics, stating, "We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of [puberty-suppressing hormones] to make the treatment routinely available at this time."

Months later, then-British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkin used emergency powers "to ban puberty blockers for new treatments of gender dysphoria from private clinics and for all purposes from overseas prescribers into Great Britain." The ban on private sales goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.

On Wednesday, the British Department of Health and Social Care announced that existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty blockers "will be made indefinite, following official advice from medical experts," in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

"The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) has provided independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children. It recommends indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people," the department said in a release.

'Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks.'

Blaze News previously reported that the drugs in question, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists, also known as GnRHa, have long been used to chemically castrate sex offenders.

According to the medical advocacy group Do No Harm's Stop the Harm database, between 2019 and 2023, at least 13,994 American minors underwent sex-change treatments and over 8,500 received hormones and puberty blockers. The Free Press noted in August that the leading provider of sex-change hormones for young adults in the United States is Planned Parenthood.

Puberty blockers, rebranded for kids with gender confusion, have been characterized as safe and effective by LGBT activists and pharmaceutical reps. This narrative did not, however, survive the release of the Cass Review earlier this year, at least on the other side of the Atlantic.

Dr. Hilary Cass, an acclaimed British medical doctor who previously served as president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, was commissioned by NHS England to investigate the U.K. sex-change regime and its youth-facing services. The penetrating investigation revealed that where so-called gender science is concerned, "there is not a reliable evidence base upon which to make clinical decisions, or for children and their families to make informed choices."

Extra to pointing out that so-called gender-science is largely based on research of "poor quality," demonstrating "poor study design, inadequate follow-up periods and a lack of objectivity in reporting of results," the Cass Review demolished the case for using puberty blockers, stressing the uses "are unproven and benefits/harms are unknown."

The review found not only that puberty blockers compromise bone density but have no apparent impact on so-called gender dysphoria.

Dr. Cass said of the indefinite ban, "I support the government's decision to continue restrictions on the dispensing of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria outside the NHS where these essential safeguards are not being provided."

"Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks, and that is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol," added Dr. Cass.

'Children's healthcare must always be evidence-led.'

James Palmer, the NHS medical director for specialized services, stated, "Evidence reviews by NICE and NHS England, supported by Dr Cass, clearly showed there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of puberty suppressing hormones for the treatment of gender dysphoria or incongruence, which is why the NHS decided that they would no longer be routinely offered to children and young people."

Rather than loading confused kids up with transmogrifying drugs and removing body parts, the British health system is now focused on offering holistic support and working with patients on mental health.

Wes Streeting, the current health and social care secretary, stated, "Children's healthcare must always be evidence-led. The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people."

"Dr. Cass' review also raised safety concerns around the lack of evidence for these medical treatments," continued Streeting. "We need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people, and follow the expert advice."

While Britain has grown wise to the potential risks of puberty blockers, the money and ideology-driven regime stateside has not similarly been dealt a national blow.

Dr. Cass blasted certain American medical associations in a May New York Times interview, suggesting that the American Academy of Pediatrics, for instance — which has repeatedly lashed out against Republican-led states for protecting children from child sex-change mutilations — has held "on to a position that is now demonstrated to be out of date by multiple systematic reviews."

Cass suggested it "wouldn't be too much of a problem if people were saying, 'This is clinical consensus and we're not sure.' But what some organizations are doing is doubling down on saying the evidence is good. I think that's where you're misleading the public."

Of the 28 states where Republicans control the legislature, 24 red states have successfully passed bans to protect children from puberty blockers, hormone therapies, or sex-change mutilations, reported the New York Times. Robert Hinkle, a Clinton-nominated federal judge, suggested that such Republicans had actually acted on "old-fashioned discriminatory animus."

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week about a puberty blocker ban in Tennessee. Should the high court uphold the ban when issuing its decision in United States v. Skrmetti sometime next year, similar bans will be reinforced across the country.

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