Time taken to bring accusations.
Co-ordinated release of details and accusations to the meeja by "five victims".
And yet nothing sent to the police or CPS.

I am no fan of Brand. but this is absolutely disgraceful that people can publicly air such accusations with not a sniff of court proceedings.

The alleged rape victim was in the US. She had been seeing Brand for a while. She did mit report it as she was “scared” but admitted he had never acted badly previously. Only evidence was a message apologising for his behaviour ( could have been anything).
Programme claimed to have seen messages on other occasions but didn’t show them. The only thing proven was Brand was an absolute t** but no evidence of criminality only he s***ged a lot of willing women

I didn't watch the programme but I've seen enough of the papers to get the gist of the allegations. At the moment a number of unnamed women have made serious allegations but not to the police err that's it.

One thing that is bugging me is how the media is reporting Brand's career as though he was a major star. I'll admit I never liked him so maybe my prejudice is showing through but I think they are totally over hyping it.

He is a comedian famous for being famous. Most successful comedians e.g. Peter Kaye can point to sitcoms as well as stand up in which they have starred. As far as I can tell Brand has done stand up, TV and radio spots but nothing that warranted being called a major star.

He went to Hollywood and bombed after a number of supporting roles and had to come back to England tail between his legs.

He then moved from comedy to conspiracy and here I will defer to Stirlingsays expertise but frankly I don't care what he thinks about the Deep State, does anyone else?

Anyway C4 has opened a can of worms which they need to back up with facts. I am not convinced that the deep state is trying to shut him up "cos he tells it like it is". He is not a threat just a man howling at the moon who others listen to. At he maybe right on a lot of what he says but then so is the man down the pub.

I think the most likely explanation as to why C4 have gone after him is that he is an easy target due to his previous sleazy lifestyle.

I am watching the programme now and am only 5 mins in and already can see that isn’t true. That there was consensual sex doesn’t mean that all the sex was consensual. That any woman didn’t pursue charges at the time but might now is only down to the way these things were regarded then and that the women have matured and acquired confidence. That some women were willing to participate with a self confessed sex addict doesn’t mean all were or that any were all of the time.

I have always regarded Brand as a piece of s***e and nothing I have read about this story or seen surprises me. It’s pretty much what I would have expected from him.

Nor is it any surprise that in today’s world these accusations are surfacing. They have against others and will for more.

Accusations may ruin reputations but unless and until charges are made and convictions secured they remain just accusations. We will have to see whether charges follow.

For me this changes nothing. Yet! Powerful people have exploited the impressionable and vulnerable since time began. Brand is just a particularly extreme and unpleasant example. The chickens may not be yet back in the roost but they are in the air and if this type of attitude is to be eradicated it must be exposed and condemned. Hopefully in a court.

The supervision by the TV channels and the production companies is an entirely separate matter. Important nonetheless but unrelated directly to the accusations.

I watched until the end, which included Brand’s denials. I found the statements by the various women much more compelling and convincing than those denials. Denials which appeared to me to suggest that Brand believes that if he believed consent was given then consent existed.