Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Ok, i suffered through that Brand. He's well named as he's all about building it. That's fine in itself if you want to be a celebrity of his sort - where you have a need for center stage and you'll say what you know the audience will love to hear without any thought of the practicality of it - you have to be a showman, but...

On 23 October 2013, Brand was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman for the BBC's Newsnight in which he disparaged the British political system as ineffectual and encouraged the British electorate not to vote.[116] He was challenged by Paxman about his call for "revolution" and whether someone who had never voted could edit a political magazine.[119] When asked by Paxman what a revolution would look like, Brand replied:

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A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, [with] heavy taxation of corporations...I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced...I say profit is a filthy word, because wherever there is a profit there is also a deficit.[120][121]
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British commentator Joan Smith dismissed Brand's appearance on Newsnight as the "canny self-publicist" who indulges in "waffle about 'revolution'" as "one celebrity, I'm afraid, who's more idiot than savant."[122] Former Independent editor Simon Kelner largely defended his appearance: "It sounded rather attractive, even if it wasn't exactly worked through. But Brand's rhetorical flourishes made up for the lack of detail".[123]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand#Political_activism

I'm with Joan Smith. And a guy who tells his wife he's getting a divorce by text message is a jerk ..
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2013-jun-18-la-et-mg-katy-perry-vogue-russell-brand-divorce-text-message-john-mayer-20130618-story.html .

He's obviously 'the man' in many eyes. You can have him.