I'm Facing Prison — Here's the Truth About What's Going on in the UK – SF561
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Russell Brand
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
I'm now facing serious allegations in the UK and a civil case in the US—allegations I completely deny. While I can't speak directly to the legal proceedings, what I *can* talk about is the broader context: a justice system that's looking increasingly politicized. In the UK, we're seeing people arrested over speech, journalists raising alarms, and the law being used in ways that feel less about justice and more about control. When this becomes the climate, we have to ask: is the system protecting the public—or protecting power?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, your Awakening Wonders. |
| 0:04.9 | Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. |
| 0:08.0 | And how long will I be free for? |
| 0:10.3 | Wherever you're watching this, X, YouTube. |
| 0:12.7 | Ultimately, we want you to make your way to Rumble and Rumble Premium. |
| 0:16.3 | If you get Rumble Premium, you're supporting us, |
| 0:18.3 | and you get to participate in the glorious lineup that |
| 0:21.6 | includes Tim Paul Crowder, but Glenn Greenwald, Kim Iverson, so many free speech advocates. |
| 0:28.7 | We'll be talking about the UK today and free speech in the UK. |
| 0:32.0 | We're of course going to talk about the protests across the United States of America. |
| 0:35.4 | We're going to be talking about Trump's tariffs, |
| 0:46.1 | and I'm going to address as best I can the charges of sexual assault and rape in the UK that have been made against me. What I feel when looking at it with my heart as open as I can |
| 0:53.6 | manage is that knowing that there are |
| 0:56.0 | people that to whatever degree and for whatever reason willing to participate in a venture of |
| 1:02.0 | this nature means that I recognize that I must have in some ways caused harm. In those Gideon |
| 1:09.8 | hedonistic days, those ludicrous dark days, those days where |
| 1:13.7 | I was part of a culture that then seemed to warmly applaud and celebrate Epicureanism, the relentless |
| 1:20.2 | pursuit of pleasure, a kind of casual godlessness, the kind of godlessness that leads to the |
| 1:26.6 | erection, forgive the word, of false gods everywhere. |
| 1:30.0 | One minute, this is your idol, the next minute, this is your idol. |
| 1:33.8 | Fall down, bow down and worship at their corporate and consumer altars. |
| 1:38.8 | When I was in that world, I must have been captured by a kind of darkness. |
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