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@drewnogal said
He disappeared from public view following false abuse claims in 2014.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11130501/Sir-Cliff-Richard-never-false-abuse-claims-feelings-hate-accuser.html

Sir Cliff Richard has revealed that he will ‘never get over’ the false allegation that he abused a teenage boy in the 1980s.

Thanks, that is old news! I recalled as I read it.

-VR

@very-rusty said
Sir Cliff Richard has revealed that he will ‘never get over’ the false allegation that he abused a teenage boy in the 1980s.

Thanks, that is old news! I recalled as I read it.

-VR

The web says Cliff is still releasing music
https://www.cliffrichard.org/latest-album/

@divegeester said
To be clear I am not a fan of Brand, in fact I have always disliked the man intensely and my ‘personal opinion’ on the accusations against him is that they contain a level credibility.

However, as Drewnogal said (before editing her post) a person is innocent until proven guilty. So to answer your question; if I had a ticket to his show I wouldn’t personally go (I woul ...[text shortened]... feel it is these establishments duty of process to abide by what is proven, not by what is alleged.

Fair point.

Blimey Russel Brand on TV today; the man looks like a cross between Weird Al Yankovic and a medieval catholic portrait of Jesus, with the hand gestures of Ken Dod and the paranoid mind of Metal Brain.

PETER HITCHENS: Trying to have a serious argument with Russell Brand is like playing chess with a squirrel.

@drewnogal said
PETER HITCHENS: Trying to have a serious argument with Russell Brand is like playing chess with a squirrel.

An odd phrase to use to describe Brand when there is so much else to choose from.

@divegeester said
An odd phrase to use to describe Brand when there is so much else to choose from.

I don’t think I’ll ever see mascara runs in quite the same innocent way.
He has a grotesque mouth.

@drewnogal said
I don’t think I’ll ever see mascara runs in quite the same innocent way.
He has a grotesque mouth.

For me he’s technically innocent until proven guilty of the allegations. But there really is a feeling that it all fits.

He lost me completely with the foul Andrew Sachs prank which he and Jonathon Ross pulled in 2008.

@divegeester said
For me he’s technically innocent until proven guilty of the allegations. But there really is a feeling that it all fits.

He lost me completely with the foul Andrew Sachs prank which he and Jonathon Ross pulled in 2008.

I do wonder whether he suffers with hypomania?

@drewnogal said
I do wonder whether he suffers with hypomania?

He seems to have some odd behavioural characteristics and clearly suffers from some level, probably an increasing level of delusions about deep state conspiracies.

@divegeester said
He seems to have some odd behavioural characteristics and clearly suffers from some level, probably an increasing level of delusions about deep state conspiracies.

Visibly and deliberately urinating in one’s knickers in a public street takes some doing.