The Telegraph, on UK Politics, 10 November 2026
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Read the original article on telegraph.co.uk (opens in a new tab)The Telegraph reports Lucy Powell's defence of Ed Miliband's 2015 appearance on Russell Brand's show, quoting her at length and attributing her claims to her. It then tests her claim that nobody could have known against Brand's documented record before 2015, and reports his conviction and sentence plainly. Nothing in it misleads the reader.
“By the time the interview took place, Brand had lost his BBC Radio 2 show for leaving a series of lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone about his granddaughter, had been fired from XFM for reading pornography on air and had detailed his womanising in his autobiography.”
The Telegraph does not let Powell's claim that nothing was known stand alone. It sets out in its own voice what was already public before the interview.
“Two years before Mr Milliband appeared on the show with Brand, the comedian had joked about raping a woman and then murdering her during a show broadcast online.”
The Telegraph names plainly what Brand had said in public before 2015, giving the reader concrete evidence against the claim that there were no warning signs.
“Brand, 51, was jailed for 10 and a half years on Monday for raping one of his fans and sexually assaulting three TV and radio workers”
The Telegraph states the conviction and the offences in direct words, naming rape and sexual assault and who the victims were.
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