AMANDA PLATELL: Listening to Russell Brand's victims in court was distressing enough. But there's something else about him and his wife's behaviour that has sickened me to my soul...
- Newsrooms
- 52
- Last 3 hours
- 4 reports
- Momentum
- Up 100%
2 in the 3 before
Accelerating
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 5 of 3540).Part of a bigger story
Russell Brand: 2 developments since Mon 9 Nov.Related
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1As a lifelong, practising Christian, I found it utterly repugnant to watch the self-styled Messiah use God as his defence, parading his supposed new faith as if proof of his goodness and innocence.
In Daily Mail’s words.2
The bigger story: Russell Brand
2 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.
Russell Brand joke is axed from Gavin & Stacey as BBC edits mention out of iPlayer episode after the disgraced comedian was jailed for rape
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The story so far
52 newsrooms- Reports
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- Newsrooms and sources
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- Last 3 hours
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Accelerating: reports are coming in at least twice as fast as three hours before (4 in the last three hours, 2 in the three before).
First with it: The Daily Wire, 1 hr 2 min before anyone else.
Reported by 52 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Guardian and Just the News (the same headline); Daily Express, The Mirror (all Reach); The West Australian, PerthNow, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); The Times of India and BBC News (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
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| Today | 25 |



