Anyone see Paxman interviewing Russell Brand?

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Brand responds to critics:

When I was poor and I complained about inequality people said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want inequality on the agenda because it is a real problem that needs to be addressed.

It's easy to attack me, I'm a right twerp, I'm a junkie and a cheeky monkey, I accept it, but that doesn't detract from the incontrovertible fact that we are living in a time of huge economic disparity and confronting ecological disaster. This disparity has always been, in cultures since expired, a warning sign of end of days. In Rome, Egypt and Easter Island the incubated ruling elites, who had forgotten that we are one interconnected people, destroyed their societies by not sharing. That is what's happening now, regardless of what you think of my hair or me using long words, the facts are the facts and the problem is the problem. Don't be distracted. I think these columnist fellas who give me aggro for not devising a solution or for using long words are just being territorial. When they say "long words" they mean "their words" like I'm a monkey who got in their Mum's dressing up box or a hooligan in policeman's helmet.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... -newsnight

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Brutal honesty frightens most people.

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More Brand on HuffPost- Mehdi Hasan conducts an interview with Brand, it's a wild hour long ride and he plays up the jester/cheeky cock-er-ney chappie, in between though are some absolute gems.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11 ... 21633.html