Daily Mail opinion piece, on UK Politics, 11 November 2026
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Read the original article on dailymail.com (opens in a new tab)This Daily Mail leader column attacks Lucy Powell's claim that there were no warning signs about Russell Brand before Ed Miliband's 2015 interview with him, then turns to the early-release scheme and Kemi Badenoch's welfare plan. The column is fiercely worded, and the facts it gives about Brand's record and Powell's own words match what The Telegraph, HuffPost, the Express and the Mail's own news report recorded. The supplied coverage does not include its Ofcom figure or its claims about the prisoner releases, so we make no judgement on those.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“Ms Powell herself reportedly signed up for Twitter in 2009”
The Mail marks this as reported rather than stating it flatly, and it matches what HuffPost and the Express also reported about when Powell joined the platform.
“He had previously been fired from XFM for reading pornography live on air”
The Mail grounds its attack on Brand in a concrete, checkable fact that The Telegraph and the Mail's own news report on the same day also recorded.
“she claims it was impossible to vet Brand because it was before the ‘social media age’”
The Mail attributes Powell's defence to her and puts her own phrase in quotation marks. The phrase matches her words as The Telegraph quoted them, so the column argues with what she actually said.
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