Stewart Lewis

Russell #Brand anally raped a woman until she bled. She was left in agonising pain & got medical treatment immediately after. All documented/ backed up under oath by nurse who treated her at the time. He’s the predator and rapist not the persecuted or victim. Stop defending himan

What a despicable, tasteless, crass, moronic thing to tweet. How low can you go on Remembrance Sunday. Horrible, twisted mind.

Bollocks like this is an attack on every victim of grooming gangs and of institutional abuse who, years after being raped, walked into a courtroom and had their evidence believed. Here is what morons like Shannon are trying to push: Brand's conviction rests on "no evidence other than a testimony", he was convicted "nearly 20 years" later, she "withdrew consent DURING sex", nobody urged her to go to the police, and the whole case is "a slap in the face to other girls". What they don't understand is that in the same manner victims of grooming gangs found justice. In August 2018, six men were convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of grooming and abusing girls in Rotherham in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The evidence the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described was seven victims, who gave evidence about what had been done to them as children. Some of the men claimed the girls were lying. Abid Saddiq was sentenced to 20 years. In July 2025, the CPS announced that three more men had been convicted of raping girls aged between 13 and 16 in Rotherham between 1999 and 2002. The CPS listed the evidence the jury had to go on: the victims' video-recorded interviews, corroborating witness statements and identifications of the defendants. There is no DNA sample and no CCTV footage on that list. Now let's have a look at what the jury had in the Brand case: They had the same kind of evidence. They had her video-recorded police interview and her evidence under cross-examination. They had statements from the people she told in the days, weeks and months after 2009, including a nurse at the sexual health clinic where she went for tests. Identification was never in doubt, because Brand admitted the anal sex while giving evidence. If that evidence was good enough to convict the Rotherham men, it is good enough to convict Brand. If it is not good enough for Brand, it is not good enough for them either, and anyone arguing the first is arguing the second. This goes beyond the grooming gangs. In the 1960s, Nigel Pipe was a housemaster at Skegby Hall, a school in Nottinghamshire for vulnerable boys. In 2021, more than 50 years later, a jury unanimously convicted him of abusing five boys, and he received a 28-year sentence. The Court of Appeal upheld the convictions in 2023, noting that the issue for the jury "ultimately was whether the offences took place, as alleged by each of the trial complainants". This is how abuse from decades ago gets proved in this country, because by the time victims are finally able to speak, there is nothing left to swab. In 1994, Parliament abolished the rule that judges had to warn juries about convicting on a sexual offence complainant's word alone. The claims about the Brand case are wrong as well. She did not "withdraw consent during sex". Her evidence was that she never agreed to anal sex at all: "We never had a conversation about anal sex." As for the claim that nobody urged her to go to the police, one witness told the jury that they had told her she had been raped and should contact the police, and that she held back because she feared she would not be believed. Her father told her: "you have been raped". Holding back like that is normal, not suspicious. According to the Office for National Statistics ONS, fewer than one in six women who have been raped or assaulted by penetration report it to the police. Yes, other girls with stronger evidence have had to watch their attackers walk free. That is the scandal, and the answer is to fix the cases where the system failed. Tearing down a conviction that worked puts nothing right. Calling a testimony-based rape conviction "a slap in the face to other girls" is a slap in the face to the survivors of Rotherham, the boys of Skegby Hall, and every victim of a church, a care home or a grooming gang who waited years to be heard. The only people this argument helps are the abusers themselves. Which is why those idiots making it should shut the fuck up.

Uncritical support for the state of Israel will now be compulsory teaching in English and Welsh schools. While Israel commits genocide. This Labour Friends of Israel govt is truly dangerous.

‘The frustration, more than anything, centres on who is holding the decision-makers to account and what is the plan for supporters to get behind. Norwich are into their fifth year in the Championship since relegation from the Premier League in 2021-22 and continue to drift’

Has the left learned nothing from the Corbyn disaster? Having a massive membership means nothing, if you're alienating the wider electorate. Even if the Greens had a million members, they'd still need to win *tens* of millions of votes to get into government. Good luck with that.

The Greens are haemorrhaging support, mainly because 42% of the electorate believe the party has an antisemitism problem. observer.co.uk/news/politics…

Labour had the most comfortable by-election hold for a governing party in years. The Green's increase was >4% when you factor in Feinstein's 2024 vote. The GP is down to single figures in the polls and is treated as a pariah by other parties. We need a different Green party.

BREAKING: The Florida televangelist who claimed that if Republicans lose control of Congress in the midterms Satan will conquer the US and force everyone at gunpoint to turn gay or trans or both just got arrested after his secret meth lab in his church's basement caught fire.

Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017: "I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."