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Our serious thinkers are being silenced
Today, says James Marriott in The Times, “anybody can have a go at establishing themselves as a serious thinker”. Russell Brand is a perfect example – 10 years ago, half the bus stops in London advertised his “political treatise/extended brain fart”, Revolution. He guest-edited The New Statesman, interviewed Ed Miliband in his kitchen, and faced an exasperated Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.