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Talk:Predictive power

About the solar eclipse in 1919: I've heard that the results of the measurements were faked? I'm not questioning general relativity at all, but that this actual "confirmation" was not really true.Unclevortex 12:21, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * Harry Collins & Trevor Pinch's The Golem (ISBN 0521477360) provide an account of the experiment; the results were not faked as such, but the results of starlight during the eclipse, recorded on photographic plates, were highly variable and inaccurate, and could also have been interpreted as being a confirmation of the Newtonian model (which also predicted some bending of light too, but to a lesser degree). The Royal Society (or some similar body) arbitrated - some results were discounted, and others were included, with some quite curious logic used to apply as to which ones should be used; they decided that Einstein's propositions held. In science studies the case is often held up as a classic example, not of predictive power, but of how results can be selectively interpreted to confirm existing prejudices. In fact this article could not have used a worse example!
 * All the above is off the top of my head, I don't have the relevant text and sources to hand; when I do (in a few days) I will update the article. Qwghlm 23:51, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * I've added a disputed template to the page because of the above; anyone willing to add some more historical context to the general relativity example is welcome to - I would myself but am unable to do so right now. Qwghlm 00:06, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for clearing that up! That's what I've read before too. --Unclevortex 10:17, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Eclipse
I'm well aware that the historical case of the 1919 eclipse observations is very complex (I'm a PhD student in the history of science myself), but as a brief example it works well and is one I think people will be fairly familiar with. I'd been wanting to write a full article on the eclipse experiment one of these days, because it is really quite fascinating, and is one of those textbook stories of "scientific triumph" that is so often quoted though it has so many more levels of depth to it (i.e. the simple fact that during the eclipse and before the eclipse the photographic lenses were exposed to radically different temperatures and thus had all sorts of focusing problems), not to mention all of the rather interesting problems leading up to the observation (World War I plays into it in some way, if I recall), etc. etc. Its benefit to the predictive power article is that it was indeed a prediction of Einstein's and the confirmation -- though disputed both in fact and interpretation by many scientists -- was more generally taken as a confirmation of his theory's accuracy and has certainly been retrospectively re-tooled backwards towards that end. Which is to say, I think it makes an okay little example (one which is pretty easy for a non-historian and non-scientist to understand -- Einstein predicted X, they then saw X), even if things were actually more complicated (as they always are). --Fastfission 15:52, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

There's no need for a disputed template. It can be modified a bit to be just fine -- it doesn't have to imply that this was the end-all truth of it. I've generally seen the case come up in science studies not so much as a case of selective interpretation but as a case of the ambiguity of interpretation, a disputation of the standard "Einstein's triumph" story, and giving a little more credit to the discontent of the anti-Einsteinians. I don't think it's the "worst example" to use -- it is just a common, overly simple example, but properly qualified I don't think it should bother anyone too much. --Fastfission 15:52, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I changed it a little bit. I mentioned that this is a common example in scientific textbooks (which anybody strictly concerned with history should see as a red flag), and that it was heralded publicly (i.e., by non-scientific sources) as a confirmation, and that at the time, though, many scientists disputed both the fact and interpretation of the results. I think this should clear it up a bit. A more thorough discussion of the eclipse would warrant its own article -- as a quick little example I think it works fine here, and allows us to use that wonderful newspaper clipping on the right! I think this qualifications should please those who are worried about the details (which are not really the point of this article as it stands). Shifting it onto a "public perception" gets us out of having to be overly detailed about the historical details in this instance. You might also want to look at all which Wikipedia currently has on this topic with these things. If you'd like to propose another historical example, please feel free, however I doubt you'll find any which are indisputable (such is the case with this subject). --Fastfission 15:57, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, I added a whole other paragraph. We can turn this into a nice little parable. First paragraph: science textbooks give as an example of this. Second paragraph: but science studies shows us why this narrative and even this concept might be problematic. Now it is an easy-to-understand example coupled with a little bit of critique! Everybody is happy and it serves two useful purposes. --Fastfission 16:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * OK cool, nice to know other Wikipedians are in the field as well. The disputed template was a bit OTT admittedly but there doesn't seem to be one that says "this article is a little bit misleading". Anyway, the extra clarifying paragraph you've put it is a good start, though a little wordy. I might add some more relevant facts to give it some extra weight, when I get hold of my books again at the end of this week.

 * As an alternative example - Dmitri Mendeleev's prediction of elements that had not yet been discovered is probably a prime candidate, also the naturalist (whose name I have forgotten, might have been Darwin) who spotted extraordinarily long flowers in the jungle and postulated the existence of an insect with a very long proboscis in order to pollinate it, might well be simpler ones, but as you say, these confirmations may also have been highly disputed in their day as well... Qwghlm 16:26, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * Those are good examples too, I'll add them in, though I like the Einstein one especially now that it has been problematized and shows a problem with the entire concept. --Fastfission 01:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * This is why I love Wikipedia :) --Unclevortex 12:27, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Err, now there's too much on the eclipse
The eclipse was meant to just be an example of sorts. I don't think we need all of the details in this article. Perhaps someone could extract them and put them into an article on the Observations of the solar eclipse of 1919? --Fastfission 20:31, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Factual details (such as names, dates and figures) were necessary to back up the statements made - before the edits I made it didn't stand up on its own. I don't think the example is too long - it's four paragraphs, a screen or so's worth of information, the article as a whole is well under what counts as 'large', and Wikipedia is hardly running out of diskspace, is it? The entire point of the science studies addendum was that historical accounts of science are often simplified and are only properly explained when the details and caveats are examined. You can, if you like, trim it down, but I fear by doing so you'll only get people asking "well, what exactly did happen?" several months down the line. Qwghlm 22:04, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * The statements don't have to stand up on their own in this article, though -- they can be stated and more thoroughly defended and explained somewhere else. I think they are better suited in a more specific article which we can reference (that is, link to explicitly) from this article. It's not really about physical length, it is about the reader saying, "dang, I thought this was an article about prediction, not about a specific eclipse? Why are they telling me the arc lengths? What the heck is an arc length?" and so forth; this article should use it as an example and take a number of things for granted -- one doesn't need to know the specifics of the measurements to understand the role the observations play in this particular article. Plus, the 1919 eclipse needs its own article anyway. :) --Fastfission 23:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Plus, it'll give us a good place to use these neat eclipse pictures I found! ;) --Fastfission 23:24, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, you've convinced me, go ahead and do it (check first such an article doesn't already exist with a similar title - I've just realised there might be one), and leave a single paragraph here which briefly summarises the 1919 eclipse. Qwghlm 14:28, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Sentence needs fixing
The following sentence, from paragraph 2 of the 1919 eclipse section, needs to be fixed, but I'm not sure what it means so I can't fix it:
 * Two telescopes were used at Sobral, one recorded 8 plates recorded a mean deviation from the norm of 1.98″ of arc (1 ″ = 1/3600th of a degree), and the other 18 plates with a mean deviation of 0.86″

Is it that, at one telescope, 8 plates were used which recorded a mean deviation etc.? As currently stated it makes no sense. Thanks. Chick Bowen 20:20, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, my bad. Have corrected. Is it any better now? Qwghlm 22:57, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, very clear. Chick Bowen 00:29, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Eclipse AGAIN
Holy smokes.

For one thing, what does this one example have to do with predictive power? No one can think of a better example to use? Like, oh I don't know, Neptune?!

For another, its generally accepted that the story that Eddington fudged the data is simply a well-repeated myth. The article here essentially states that the the myth is true, and there's no discussion about counter viewpoints. These counter-arguments appear to be extremely solid, see this entry in the Philip Ball blog for instance. Here's the cogent quote, "In any event, a modern analysis of these plates in 1979 shows that, taken together, they do support Einstein’s prediction rather well, and that the original teams made assumptions in their calculations that were justified even if they couldn’t be conclusively supported at the time."

 * (correct URL: Arthur-eddington-was-innocent)

All of this would be fine if this were an article on the eclipse measurements, but here it's nothing more than an overly long, poorly supported, counterexample.

I argue it should be removed entirely.

Maury 15:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Off Topic?
The name of this article is "Predictive Power," but the text mostly seems to consist a critique of the Eddington eclipse experiment, and a very superficial critique at that. The entire article seems to be off topic.

If the presence of the eclipse experiment means that the discussion should be torqued around so fully that the main focus of the article seems to be critiques of the Eddington experiment, it is badly out of place.

I rewrote the article, greatly shortening the discussion of the Eddington eclipse and moving it further back to a slightly less prominent position in the article, and I reduced the critique of the experiment to a minimum, giving a reference link to The Golem (ISBN 0521477360) for people who want more details of the critique. Geoffrey.landis 23:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It is probably worth having a separate article on just the Eddington experiment. There is enough history and subsequent analysis and myths that need correcting, to justify it. I learnt about all this in the late-1990s, and I was unaware that opinions had changed again (see the 2006 and 2007 papers), or shifted slightly (not sure which). Also "observations made by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington" oversimplifies it. It was two expeditions and many people involved. I believe Eddington went to Principe, and someone else went to Sobral (or maybe it was the other way around). And then the results were analysed when they got home. Carcharoth (talk) 20:30, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

 * A separate article on the experiment does sound reasonable. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 04:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I'll try to start something at some point. The best account on-wiki seems to be Tests of general relativity. The article mentioned there, Kepler problem in general relativity, turns out to be a general article about the mathematics of the general problem. I'm wondering what the best title for the experiment would be. Category:Physics experiments has articles closest to what I'm thinking of (though the Category:Experiments looks like it needs re-organising). I'm thinking either "experiment" or "expedition". We have Category:Scientific expeditions. The article could also focus on the eclipse, though that distracts from the expedition and experiments. Seeing as the article should cover the results and the impact and the later history, it should be "experiment". Maybe Eddington experiment and/or 1919 Solar Eclipse Expeditions? There is also (though less widespread) the Dyson-Eddington experiment and Dyson-Eddington-Davidson experiment. Which name would be best do you think? Carcharoth (talk) 05:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Note: Arthur Stanley Eddington, Frank Watson Dyson, Charles Rundle Davidson. "F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. Series A 220 (1920) 291-333". Might get a new biographical article out of this as well! Carcharoth (talk) 05:12, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Eddington experiment
A note (following on from the above) that the main content on the eclipse and the experiment now appear to be at the following three locations: Carcharoth (talk) 14:23, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Arthur Eddington
 * Eddington experiment
 * Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919

Definition?
There appears to be no definition of the term "Predictive power" in the article. I left reading it with having to determine the meaning by abstracting from the given examples. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.0.213.82 (talk) 23:37, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Gun Quarter

Note: A copy of the edit history of the article prior to deletion of versions perpetuating copyvio can be found at Talk:Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history.

Copyright etc
I have restored this article to its last form after the copyright material was removed, it was edited by many people and was starting to take shape, many hours went into its creation and I do not understand why Andrew Mabbett went to such lengths just to delete the entire article? 195.92.67.65 18:29, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I've looked at the article in its earlier form. The problem is that part of it is copyvio from the Webley site and Birminghamuk.com, and the rest is unedited, uncited, chunks straight out of Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham (plain text here) - which, although it's out of copyright, goes against the guideline Don't include copies of primary sources.

 * Oh, lordy! Attribution looks iffy even for the bare-bones intro that remains. See and . The literary flavour of phrases such as "pushing in between buildings of an earlier time and function" suggests a book source. RayGirvan 16:00, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I feel like I know brums gun quarter inside out now :(, I have created an article from work I had part written and stashed away, this is all original and I am now working on the US section, my sources you will know from virtual brum, the project site on main brum page and Chambers gunmakersParker-Hale gunsmiths enjoy :\ Nick Boulevard 23:18, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * It's not all original. The first two paragraphs are identical to texts about the Gun Quarter at these family history sites: and . RayGirvan 23:39, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Andy, that was overkill. Deleting the specific text would have been sufficient - I commented, hoping Nick would edit it, being more familiar with the subject. RayGirvan 12:50, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * What was? I did two things - I reverted to a previous version, to remove an unencylopedic incoherent bbundle of unrelated (part) sentences, many of which had the appearance of being source material, and whcih havd already been removed previously. This left a two paragarph article, which was 100% copyvio. Andy Mabbett 13:16, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, now I am going to try and keep calm here, I spent all yesterday afternoon writing that article and I absolutely swear on oath that it was all my own material, if anything sounds or looks familiar then I can assure you 100% that it came from my own head or that someone else has read the same research as myself and interpreted it in a similar fashion to myself, I have provided the links to where I got my facts from, If this is not restored then I am afraid that Andy Mabbetts behaviour is disgusting and totally out of order, my god and you wonder why I act the way I do sometimes, this is proof of his blatant vandalism and deletion of my own original work, not copyright violation or anything else, something needs to be done here to stop this, if Andy didn't like the way I worded it then he is welcome to edit it providing all the facts and relevant points are still in the article that I went to great lengths to research and put into a coherent peice of work for the sake of the article, I was trying to right a wrong of ever using any text from elswhere in the first place Nick Boulevard 16:56, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hang on a minute, I've just double checked what Ray claimed was copyright violation, the text at the top of the page which I agree is taken from here:
 * and
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 * is absolutely nothing to do with me, I purposely left that alone so as not to upset the person that wrote it who appears to be user 82.145.213.10, ironic that Andy Mabbett seems to have been the main person reverting blatant copyright material, hilarious. I will happily remove the copyright violation and add an original factual intro, I can base it on what was there or write my own take? As I say I am working on the U.S. section but until my work is restored I am not wasting any more time Nick Boulevard 17:20, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * In this case, I agree: I left the article because it looked salvageable by a rewrite (and I didn't say anything about the source of the apparent copyvio). As you say, 82.145.213.10 sourced those two paragraphs - a family history enthusiast who signs as Mark Grace and has OK'd copyright as the originator on some of his posts. I've e-mailed him to see what the situation is. RayGirvan 20:10, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I actually quite liked the intro, it was well written IMO. I have now re-submitted my work from yesterday on the temp page in preperation for a live article, I have formatted the page in preperation for more work, if you can think of any alternative titles to the ones I have added then go for it. I have also restored another users work that I salvaged from the previous copyright violation Nick Boulevard 20:28, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Copyright looks fine - I just heard from Mark Grace: "I have no issue with copyright. The text is modified from a letter I received some years ago. If you are concerned, just rewrite the text a little! RayGirvan 10:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Excellent stuff, do you want to restore it exactly or re-write? Incidentally I have now added a bit of info to the American trade section which could be changed to "Foreign trade"?, I am working on the more prominent gun manufacturers v. soon. All my work today is sourced from the following:

 * http://www.firearmsmuseum.org.au/index.htm
 * http://www.welleranddufty.co.uk/lots.asp
 * http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PIG_POL/PISTOL.html
 * http://www.civilwarartillery.com/confederate_manufactures.htm
 * http://www.rememuseum.org.uk/arms/pistols/armpr.htm
 * http://home.earthlink.net/~frey2000/id2.html
 * http://www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/CAGB%20Guns%20at%20the%20LBH.htm
 * http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14472
 * Regards Nick Boulevard 19:56, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

From Talk:Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Temp
I've tried to arrange this chronologically rather than by loose theme. Reference to "the government" in the context of the civil war is rather unfortunate - which government? The 17th-18th century stuff is useful as pre-history and context, but I'd like to remind people of the title of the article - it is not about weapons production in general, it's about the Gun Quarter. I can't quite see why the erection of a saw mill in Italy by a local gun maker is relevant to an article about Birmingham, so I've commented that out, and I've also removed the information about cannon going to the Dardanelles, BSA diversifying into motorbikes, and some of the other irrelevant details. The "setters up" include machines - what? It would be helpful if there was a source given for some of this (I have a list from Hopkins's The Rise of the Manufacturing Town which is similar). The "&c"s seem to point to a Victorian or earlier source. I've also chopped some of the 20th century section, which is not about the Gun Quarter (or indeed guns at all), and more relevant to the BSA article (where most of it is duplicated, quelle surprise!). --Brumburger 14:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * The page does look better in present form but you have deleted some relevant facts that I supplied proof of on the main article talk page, please restore them or I can if you like re: cannons (where else will this info suit best?), saw mill was set up by a gun firm from teh gun quarter and is a good example of how successful and affluent some of the companies were.
 * Your comments do not surprise me Brumburger, to be honest why don't you try and create an article instead of critisizing other peoples hard work, oh sorry I forgot, your not capable of that other than making snide remarks like ..."where most of it is duplicated, quelle surprise!)". The hilarious thing for me is that you can't actually delete any of my factual work that is related to the article because it is all sourced dear boy. Dil kee gaharaeon se, Chale Jao! :) Nick Boulevard 17:45, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I am going to convert that RfC into a request for arbitration if you don't cut this out. You have an opportunity now to move on and start behaving in an appropriate manner, don't blow it.  If you think anything I have removed is relevant to an article about the Gun Quarter, justify it and put it back in.  Unless you have evidence that those cannon were made in the GQ, they aren't relevant.  Unless you have evidence that the saw mill provided materials to the GQ, it isn't relevant.  If it's irrelevant to this article, it's not my responsibility to find somewhere else for it to go.  "Creation" (actually, initiation) of an article is not important - you really have to let go of this idea that if you start an article it is somehow "yours".  It stops being "yours" when you hit that "Save page" button.  After that, it's everybody's, and everybody can shape it.  --Brumburger 18:56, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok mate, the cannons can stay on the brum military page, the saw mills are relevant because it was a gun quarter firm that set up the mills, shows how far the gun quarter influence stretched across the world. :) Nick Boulevard 13:59, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The potential of the flintlock
By the end of the eighteenth century the potential of the flintlock pistol had been realized,

I don't really understand what this is trying to say - the potential to users? Manufacturers? The flintlock had become fully developed? Unless someone (Nick?) can say where this comes from and what it means, I suggest it should be removed. --Brumburger 08:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Andy Mabbett 10:54, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Undone and re-worded. This evidence was taken directly from a plaque in the gun quarter http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/history/bull.htm as Andy Mabbett knows only too well don't you mate. :) Nick Boulevard 19:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Custer's guns etc
Guns at the Little Big Horn has some interesting background on this point, and provides pointers to source-rich topics such as Braendlin and William Tranter. RayGirvan 18:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * " General Custer is known to have owned a Galand and Sommerville .44 revolver, which was faster to load than existing American pistols." and the connection with the Birmingham gun quarter is what exactly? 31.52.251.211 (talk) 14:28, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Recent additions
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22964

source cited, firt... I'm not sifting through this lot, there is a wealth of info here on all matters, will have a dig around. Nick Boulevard 23:10, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deletion
I've just deleted the page hisory to remove any lingering copyvios from the history (especially those in the first draft) since the text seems clear of copyright issues now--nixie 00:46, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

List of trades
Unless anyone wants to clean them up, I propose to delete the list of trades. As it stands, it's a meaningless, unencylopedic dumping of source material. Andy Mabbett 08:35, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll have a go at cleaning them up - it's an illustration of the way that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries a multitude of extremely specialised workshops would contribute to a finished product, as described in Economy of Birmingham. It needs dating, context, and reduction though.  --Brumburger 11:21, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Done, and moved into the 19th century section (since that's the period being described). --Brumburger 09:28, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Authorship
In his last edit summary, Nick Boulevard claims authorship of this article. The copyright violations to which he refers were his. See also Requests for comment/Nick Boulevard. Andy Mabbett 23:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It should also be added that the version of the article restored by Petaholmes was actually a collaborative effort in the best Wikipedia tradition, mostly written by other contributors - as can be seen from this talk page. --Brumburger 10:20, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

A copy of the edit history prior to deletion can be found at Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history.—Theo (Talk) 18:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Naming
Shouldn't this page be titled Birmingham Gun Quarter? --Carnildo 03:55, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

A map would be nice
A map showing just what is considered to be the gun quarter would be nice. 14:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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either "best known" is an exaggeration, or I'm really illiterate, but this is the first time I hear about this novel... Alensha 18:30, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it's an exaggeration, although the novel is good. :-) Adam78 09:19, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'll remember to pick it up next time I go to the library :) Alensha 13:03, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

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"Whereas more "liberal" anti-poverty groups use charity and advocate reform while speaking patronizingly of the poor, the OCAP works with and for the poor for basic and immediate needs."

Hardly neutral language. User:64.228.93.79

 * Be bold! and fix it then. And plz sign your posts. Beta m (talk)

2010 comment
This page is basicly a self published piece....it's nearly a word for word copy of the OCAP's history pare on their site: http://ocap.ca/files/history%20of%20ocap.pdf

I would say if its not changed soon, much of the page should be blanked. reliable 3rd party resources need to be found and after some initial searching most of the info is not verifiable by online sources 209.121.225.250 (talk) 01:10, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Seing as its been a week and there has been no response I'm going to be bold and remove much of the self published material. I've done some initial googling to find reliable 3rd party sources and will leave what I can verify through those. 206.108.31.34 (talk) 16:08, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

I volunteer to work on this article tomorrow. I will reference where needed, remove content which can not be verified and tidy per wikipedia guidlines. --Ciaran M (talk) 23:10, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

5 days later no changes or additional sources. I ask that the info be left our until reliable sources can be found. Wiki is not about adding content and then trying to find a reliable source after the fact. The source needs to come first. Sorry guys. 206.108.31.36 (talk) 17:10, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Funding
OCAP is funded through private donations and support from labour unions. At one time up to a third of their operating funds came from the Canadian Auto Workers, but the CAW cut most of its funding after the Flaherty action (Shantz, 2009) and OCAP has since had to engage in raising funds from individuals in order to pay its organizers. Shortly after the CAW discontinued funding OCAP, Canadian Union of Public Employees local 3903, representing York University Teaching Assistants and contract faculty passed a motion to pay the monthly rent for the organization's office space. Strong connections between CUPE 3903 and OCAP were developed when 3903 members took part in a 78-day strike in the winter of 2000/2001. The strike was in defense of tuition indexation to wages and job security that had been challenged by the provincial Tory government. During this period 3903 members became increasingly active in solidarity initiatives with other workers in labour disputes, and with anti-poverty, global justice and anti-war activists re-invigorating politics of direct action. The attempt has been to draw connections between these movements in an anti-racist form of social movement unionism (Black, Simon J. 2005).

Strategy and tactics
A main tactic of the group is Direct Action Casework, which is rooted in labour organizing tactics and the anti-poverty strategy described by Richard Cloward and Fran Piven in the 1972 book, Poor People's Movements. It builds the strength of the community by bringing groups of people together who have similar concerns that aren't being addressed by welfare offices, immigration offices, or housing officials or landlords. As a group, these people and their supporters go en masse to the appropriate office and demand a resolution to their claims, often refusing to leave until their demands are resolved. The principles of Direct Action Casework are as follows: 1. To combine legal work with disruptive action 2. Not to duplicate the work of legal clinics or other agencies 3. To forward political goals but never compromise the interests of those you are working with in the process (Direct Action Casework Manual, OCAP)

The group is especially confrontational towards neighbourhood associations that tend to work to close homeless shelters and evict the poor from neighbourhoods.

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Willem van Otterloo

Jan Willem van Otterloo (27 December 1907 – 27 July 1978) was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.

Biography
Van Otterloo was born in Winterswijk, Gelderland, in the Netherlands, the son of William Frederik van Otterloo, a railway inspector, and his wife Anna Catharina van Otterloo (née Enderlé). He qualified to study medicine at Utrecht University but switched to studying cello and composition at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. While playing as a cellist in the Utrecht Stedelijk Orkest, he won a composition prize from the Concertgebouw Orchestra for his Suite No. 3, which he presented in his 1932 conducting debut, also with that orchestra. He held posts with the Utrecht Stedelijk Orkest, before being appointed chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague (1949–1973).

He spent his last 11 years in Australia. From 1967 to 1970 he was chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and in 1971 he was appointed chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Particularly prized for his performances of 19th and 20th-century music, he made numerous commercial recordings, mostly for Philips Records, with Residentie Orkest, Concertgebouworkest, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre Lamoureux and (on much rarer occasions) the Sydney Symphony.

He died in the Melbourne suburb of East St Kilda in 1978 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. His body was flown to The Hague for cremation.

His notable students include Graham George and Miroslav Miletić.

Personal life
Van Otterloo was married and divorced four times in the Netherlands. He married Elisabeth ter Hoeve on 1 August 1935 (divorce 1938). On 22 April 1941 he married Anette Jacoba Adriana Heukers, with whom in December of that year he had a son, Rogier van Otterloo (1941–1988), who would become a well-known conductor in the Netherlands as well. He and Anette divorced in April 1943, but remarried 28 April 1944. They would have another son and two daughters, but divorced again on 20 September 1954. Ten days later he married Susanne Maria Anna Wildmann with whom he had another daughter. A month after his fourth divorce, he married Carola Gertie Ludewig (born 1945) on 12 August 1970 in Australia.

Compositions

 * Suite (1938)
 * Symphoniëtta for 16 Wind Instruments (1943)
 * Serenade (1944)

Discography

 * Willem Van Otterloo and Residentie Orkest: The Original Recordings 1950–1960. 13 CDs. Challenge Classics, CC 72142
 * von Weber,s Der Freischütz overture with the Residentie Orchestra in 1951 on Philips S 06003 R.

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Hyalite

Hyalite is a transparent form of opal with a glassy lustre. It may exhibit an internal play of colors if natural inclusions are present. It is also called Muller's glass, water opal, and jalite. Müller's glass is named after its discoverer, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein.

Properties
Hyalite has a hardness of 5.5–6 on the Mohs scale and a specific gravity of 1.9–2.1. Lacking a plane of cleavage, it has a conchoidal fracture. The transparent or translucent mineraloid has a globular structure, a vitreous luster, and a white streak. Hyalite is an amorphous form of silica (SiO2) formed as a volcanic sublimate in volcanic or pegmatic rock and is thereby considered a mineraloid. It contains 3–8% water, either as a silanol group or in molecular form.

Uses
Opalescent hyalite is used in jewellery, and well-formed samples are of interest to collectors due to their unusual appearance, mode of formation and relative rarity. It is sometimes mistaken for resin opal or silica glass since they both may appear clear and globular, but it can be identified under ultraviolet light due to its bright green fluorescence.

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Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency)

Sutherland was a Scottish constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.

Creation
The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Sutherlandshire.

Boundaries
The constituency represented essentially the traditional county of Sutherland. The county town of Dornoch, however, was represented as a component of the Tain Burghs constituency, from 1708 to 1832, and of the Wick Burghs constituency, from 1832 to 1918.

History
The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until the seat was abolished in 1918. In 1918 the Sutherland constituency and Dornoch were merged into the then new constituency of Caithness and Sutherland. In 1997 Caithness and Sutherland was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

Elections in the 1830s
Innes' death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1840s
Howard resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

Dundas was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, requiring a by-election.

Dundas was appointed Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s
Sutherland-Leveson-Gower succeeded to the peerage, becoming 3rd Duke of Sutherland, and causing a by-election.

Dundas resigned, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1890s
Sutherland was appointed Chairman of the Fishery Board for Scotland, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
 * Liberal: Alpheus Morton
 * Unionist: Theodore Gervase Chambers

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Computer fraud

Computer fraud is the use of computers, the Internet, Internet devices, and Internet services to defraud people or organizations of resources. In the United States, computer fraud is specifically proscribed by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes computer-related acts under federal jurisdiction and directly combats the insufficiencies of existing laws. Types of computer fraud include:

 * Distributing hoax emails
 * Accessing unauthorized computers
 * Engaging in data mining via spyware and malware
 * Hacking into computer systems to illegally access personal information, such as credit cards or Social Security numbers
 * Sending computer viruses or worms with the intent to destroy or ruin another party's computer or system.

Phishing, social engineering, viruses, and DDoS attacks are fairly well-known tactics used to disrupt service or gain access to another's network, but this list is not inclusive.

Notable incidents
The Melissa Virus appeared on thousands of email systems on March 26, 1999. It was disguised in each instance as an important message from a colleague or friend. The virus was designed to send an infected email to the first 50 email addresses on the users’ Microsoft Outlook address book. Each infected computer would infect 50 additional computers, which in turn would infect another 50 computers. The virus proliferated rapidly and exponentially, resulting in substantial interruption and impairment of public communications and services. Many system administrators had to disconnect their computer systems from the Internet. Companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Lockheed Martin and Lucent Technologies were forced to shut down their email gateways due to the vast amount of emails the virus was generating. The Melissa virus is the most costly outbreak to date, causing more than $400 million in damages to North American businesses.
 * The Melissa Virus/Worm

After an investigation conducted by multiple branches of government and law enforcement, the Melissa Virus/Worm was attributed to David L. Smith, a 32-year-old New Jersey programmer, who was eventually charged with computer fraud. Smith was one of the first people ever to be prosecuted for the act of writing a virus. He was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison and was fined $5,000. In addition, he was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completion of his prison sentence. The investigation involved members of New Jersey State Police High Technology Crime Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.

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Does anyone know how Sarlo died?......... One more loser back in society in Feb 2013. —67.182.145.196 (talk) 18:32, 5 June 2005

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Russell Brand

Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, presenter, activist, and campaigner. He established himself as a standup comedian and radio host before becoming a film actor. After beginning his career as a comedian and later becoming an MTV presenter in the UK, in 2004 Brand gained a role as the host of the television show Big Brother's Big Mouth, a Big Brother spin-off. He had his first major film role in British comedy St Trinian's (2007) before starring in the Hollywood comedies Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Arthur (2011), and Rock of Ages (2012). He has released several stand-up specials including Scandalous (2009), Messiah Complex (2013), and Brandemic (2023). He hosted his own radio show The Russell Brand Show (2006–2008, 2010, 2013, 2017) and also hosts the podcasts Stay Free with Russell Brand and Under the Skin with Russell Brand. He has received three British Comedy Awards and a nomination for a BAFTA Award. Over the course of his career, Brand has been the subject of frequent media coverage for issues such as his promiscuity, drug use, political views, provocative behaviour at various award ceremonies, his dismissal from MTV, and his resignation from the BBC amid a prank call controversy.

Since guest-editing an edition of British political weekly New Statesman in 2013, Brand has become known as a public activist and campaigner, and has spoken on a wide range of political and cultural issues, including wealth inequality, addiction, corporate capitalism, climate change, and media bias. In 2014, he launched his political-comedy web series The Trews on YouTube, released a book entitled Revolution, and acted in the documentary The Emperor's New Clothes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Brand's YouTube channel underwent an increase in activity and change in political direction, and was accused of promoting COVID denialism and conspiracy theories.

In September 2023, following a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4's documentary series Dispatches, five women publicly accused Brand of sexual assault and sexual and emotional abuse. The allegations concern incidents between the years 2006 and 2013 and were featured in the episode Russell Brand: In Plain Sight. Following the allegations, a further report of an alleged sexual assault was made against him to the Metropolitan Police, dating from 2003. Brand has denied all of the allegations and promoted conspiracy theories regarding them.

Early life
Russell Edward Brand was born in Orsett Hospital in Grays, Essex, England. He is the only child of Barbara Elizabeth (née Nichols) and photographer Ronald Henry Brand. Brand's parents separated when he was six months old, and he was raised by his mother.

When Brand was 8, his mother was diagnosed with uterine cancer and then breast cancer one year later. While she underwent treatment, Brand lived with relatives. When he was 14, he developed bulimia nervosa. At age 16, Brand left home because of disagreements with his mother's partner. He then started to use illegal drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines, LSD, and ecstasy. Brand says he had a "strange relationship" with his father, whom he saw sporadically and who took him to visit prostitutes during a trip to Thailand when Brand was a teenager.

He made his theatrical debut at the age of 15 in a school production of Bugsy Malone, and then began work as a film extra. Brand attended Grays School and in 1991, he was accepted to the Italia Conti Academy, and had his first year of tuition funded by Essex County Council. After his first year at Italia Conti Academy, Brand was expelled for illegal drug use and poor attendance. Brand has said that he was sexually abused by a tutor.

Stand-up
Brand performed stand-up at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year final in 2000. Although he finished fourth, his performance attracted the attention of Bound and Gagged Comedy Ltd agent Nigel Klarfeld. That year, he also made his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut as one-third of the stand-up show Pablo Diablo's Cryptic Triptych, alongside ventriloquist Mark Felgate and Anglo-Iranian comic Shaparak Khorsandi.

In 2004, Brand took his first one-man show, the confessional Better Now, to the Edinburgh Festival, giving an account of his heroin addiction. He returned the following year with Eroticised Humour. He launched his first nationwide tour, Shame, in 2006. Brand drew on embarrassing incidents in his own life and the coverage about him in the tabloid press. The show was released on DVD as Russell Brand: Live. Brand appeared in a sketch and performed stand-up at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball in 2006 and again at the 2012 edition at Radio City Music Hall.

In March 2007, Brand co-hosted an evening of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs with Noel Fielding. In December 2007, Brand performed for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip as an act in the 2007 Royal Variety Performance. His second nationwide tour, in 2007, was called Russell Brand: Only Joking and released on DVD as Russell Brand: Doin' Life. Brand began performing in the US, and recorded a special for Comedy Central titled Russell Brand in New York, which aired in March 2009. Brand began touring the UK, America and Australia from January to April 2009 on a tour called Russell Brand: Scandalous. In October, a further four dates that were performed in November were added to raise money for Focus 12, the drug charity for which Brand was a patron until it closed.

In 2013, Brand presented and toured his comedy show Messiah Complex, in which he tackled advertising, the laws on drug addiction and the portrayal of his heroes, such as Gandhi, Guevara, Malcolm X and Jesus, and how he is, in comically contrived ways, similar to them.

In January 2017, Brand announced his new tour Re:Birth, which debuted in April 2017 and was meant to go through November 2018. However, on 30 April 2018, he was forced to cancel the remaining dates after his mother was critically injured in a hit-and-run accident. Russell Brand: Re:Birth, which was filmed in London in April 2018, was released as a standup comedy film on Netflix on 4 December 2018.

Over the years, Brand has named Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook, Lenny Bruce, Tony Hancock, Jack Kerouac, Stewart Lee, Tenacious D, Eddie Murphy, and Monty Python among his comedic influences. In choosing one comedy film among his five favourite movies he picked Monty Python's Life of Brian. In 2009, he appeared in the television documentary, Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut).

During a live show at the Royal & Derngate theatre in Northampton in 2008 Brand made a hoax call to police saying he had seen a man responsible for a number of assaults. He pretended to be a witness to assaults named Sarah. Northamptonshire Police decided not to prosecute and said they would discourage making such calls. The call was condemned by Lynda Yorke of Leicester Rape Crisis Centre, who said: "I don’t think that's particularly amusing. It's in very poor taste. The issue of sexual assault is often belittled and such callous behaviour is extremely hurtful to the victims." James Donaghy of The Guardian said it showed "catastrophically poor judgment". Brand apologised for the call.

He has incorporated many of his controversial public acts into his comedic material. In March 2015, a biographical documentary was released called Brand: A Second Coming.

Presenting
Brand's first presenting role came in 2000 as a video journalist on MTV UK: he presented Dancefloor Chart, touring nightclubs in Britain and Ibiza, and hosted the tea-time request show Select. Brand was dismissed several days after coming to work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after the 11 September 2001 attacks and bringing his drug dealer to the MTV studios. After leaving MTV, Brand starred in RE:Brand, a documentary and comedy television program that aimed to take a challenging look at cultural taboos. It was conceived, written, and hosted by Brand, with the help of his comic partner on many projects, Matt Morgan. The series was shown on the now-defunct digital satellite channel UK Play in 2002.

In 2004, Brand hosted Big Brother's Eforum on E4, a sister show to Big Brother 5. The show gave celebrity guests and the public the chance to have their say on the goings-on inside the Big Brother house. For Big Brother 6, the show's name changed to Big Brother's Big Mouth. Following Celebrity Big Brother 5, Brand said he would not return to host the Big Brother 8 series of Big Brother's Big Mouth. In a statement, Brand thanked all the producers for "taking the risk of employing an ex-junkie twerp" to front the show. Of his time presenting the show, he said: "The three years I've spent on Big Brother's Big Mouth have been an unprecedented joy". Brand hosted a one-off special called Big Brother According to Russell Brand, in which Brand took a surreal, sideways look at Big Brother through the ages. On 8 January 2008, Brand was the fifth celebrity to "hijack" the Big Brother house, in the E4 show Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack.

Brand next returned to MTV in the spring of 2006 as presenter of the chat show, 1 Leicester Square, which had its broadcast time revised to allow for a more adult-oriented theme. Guests included Tom Cruise, Uma Thurman, The Mighty Boosh, and Boy George, and a second series began in September 2006 on MTV. After Big Brother 7 finished, Brand presented a debate show called Russell Brand's Got Issues, on E4. The viewing figures for the first episode were seen as disappointing, being beaten by nearly all of E4's main multi-channel rivals, despite a big publicity and promotional campaign for the show. The poor ratings prompted the network to repackage the show as The Russell Brand Show and move it to Channel 4. The first episode was broadcast on 24 November on Channel 4, and it ran for five weeks.

Brand hosted the 2007 Brit Awards and presented Oasis with an "Outstanding Contribution to Music" award at the event. He also hosted one hour of Comic Relief. On 7 July 2007, he presented at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London.

On 12 December 2007, BBC Four aired Russell Brand On the Road, a documentary presented by Brand and Matt Morgan about the writer Jack Kerouac and his novel On the Road. Brand returned to Channel 4 to host Russell Brand's Ponderland, in which he discussed topics like childhood and science through stand-up comedy. The show first aired on 22 October 2007 and continued for the next five nights. A second series began on 30 October 2008. The show ran for 12 episodes over the two series.

Brand was later announced as the host of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), which drew scepticism from the American media, as he was relatively unknown to the American public. Brand's appearance led to controversy for numerous reasons. He said the night "marked the launch of a very new Britney Spears era", referring to it as "the resurrection of [Spears]". He also said, "If there was a female Christ, it's Britney". Brand implored the audience to elect Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and later called then–U.S. President George W. Bush "a retarded cowboy fella", who, in England, "wouldn't be trusted with scissors". He also made several references to the purity rings worn by the Jonas Brothers, but apologised for the comments later in the show.

His comments at the 2008 MTV VMAs led to Brand receiving death threats from some offended viewers. Brand claimed that MTV asked him to host the 2009 awards after the ratings for the 2008 show were 20 per cent higher than the previous year. Also in 2008, Brand hosted a one-off stand-up comedy show called Comedy Live Presents: Russell Brand and Friends, which was shown on Channel 4 on 25 January 2008. Brand returned to host the 2009 MTV VMAs, on 13 September 2009, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The ratings for the 2009 show were the best since the 2004 VMAs. On 12 February 2011, Brand guest hosted an episode of the hit American sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. In 2012 he hosted the MTV Movie Awards and Brand X with Russell Brand, a late-night talk show on FX that received lukewarm reviews and middling ratings. The show was cancelled in 2013 after running for two seasons.

Acting
In 1994, while still a teenager, Brand appeared in episodes of The Bill and the children's adventure series Mud. In 2002, Brand appeared on the TV shows Cruise of the Gods and White Teeth. In 2005, he played Tommy in the BBC sitcom Blessed, which was written and directed by Ben Elton. Brand auditioned for the part of Super Hans in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show; the role eventually went to Matt King. In 2007, Brand appeared in Cold Blood for ITV, playing an ex-con called Ally. Brand played a recovering crack addict named Terry in the pilot for the ITV comedy The Abbey, written by Morwenna Banks. He voiced an Earth Guardian in Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind. Brand appeared in a small role in the 2006 movie Penelope; although his first major film role was as Flash Harry in the 2007 film St Trinian's.

Brand achieved American fame when he starred in the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in which he played rock star Aldous Snow, the boyfriend of the title character (played by Kristen Bell). Brand received rave reviews for his performance as Snow, and he revealed the character was changed from an author to a rock star because of his audition. Brand starred alongside Adam Sandler in the Disney film Bedtime Stories, which was released on 25 December 2008. In 2010, he reprised the role of Aldous Snow for a buddy comedy titled Get Him to the Greek, co-starring Jonah Hill, which also reunited him with Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller and producer Judd Apatow for the film.

Brand starred in Julie Taymor's 2010 version of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, as Trinculo. In 2010, Brand voiced Dr. Nefario in the Universal movie Despicable Me, and reprised the role in the 2013 sequel. Brand also guest starred in The Simpsons episode "Angry Dad: The Movie" as himself. Brand also starred in the April 2011 live action/CGI animated film Hop with James Marsden, voicing the film's protagonist E.B. Hop opened at number one at the Friday box office in the US, earning $11.4 million. The same month, he played the title character in a remake of Arthur, written by Peter Baynham, which was a box office disappointment. Brand starred as Lonny in a film adaptation of the 1980s-set musical Rock Of Ages, released in cinemas in June 2012.

After appearing as William Carr in the Diablo Cody film Paradise (2013), Brand went on hiatus from acting. His return role was as the villainous Creek in the DreamWorks animated film Trolls (2016), followed by his portrayal of God in the comedy Army of One (2016) with Nicolas Cage. In 2018 and 2019, he portrayed Sports X Network founder Lance Klians in a recurring arc In the last two seasons of the HBO series Ballers. Brand appeared as Tristan Trent in the 2020 fantasy film Four Kids and It, and in 2022 played Linus Windlesham in Kenneth Branagh's remake of Death on the Nile.

Other projects Brand has been tied to include a remake of Drop Dead Fred, an Adam Sandler-produced film about a con man posing as a priest tentatively entitled Bad Father, co-written by Brand and Matt Morgan; and a film adaptation of the children's television programme Rentaghost, a project that was picked up by Fox Studios in 2011 with Ben Stiller attached.

Production
As of October 2008, Brand's own production company is called Vanity Projects. The company's latest production, Russell Brand Doing Life, was released in 2009.

Brand also established his own production company in 2011 with his friend Nik Linnen. Called 'Branded Films', the company operates from the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, United States. The company's primary focus is to develop films that Brand stars in.

Radio

Brand's radio career began in early 2002, when he hosted a Sunday afternoon show with Matt Morgan on London's Indie Rock station Xfm. Brand was dismissed from the job after reading pornographic material live on-air.

In 2005, Brand co-hosted three one-off shows on BBC Radio 6 Music with Karl Pilkington. Brand then co-hosted The Russell Brand Show beginning in April 2006 on BBC Radio 6 Music.

In November 2006, the show transferred to BBC Radio 2 and aired on Saturdays from 9–11 pm. The show regularly drew about 400,000 listeners. The BBC Radio 2 show was available as a podcast.

On 18 October 2008, on The Russell Brand Show, Brand and Jonathan Ross broadcast the recording of a series of lewd phone messages for then-78-year-old actor Andrew Sachs. This infamously included Ross saying, "He fucked your granddaughter", a reference to Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie, whom Russell had dated. The comments were broadcast on the pre-recorded show. After little initial interest, a media story about the calls by the Daily Mail generated a high number of complaints. Brand resigned from the BBC, while Ross was suspended without pay. The BBC was later fined £150,000 by Britain's broadcast regulator for airing the calls. On 21 November 2008, the BBC Trust said that the phone calls were a "deplorable intrusion with no editorial justification".

Brand returned to radio when he and Noel Gallagher hosted a one-off football talk show on 19 April 2009 for Talksport. Brand returned to Talksport on 9 October 2010, with a Saturday night show that lasted 20 weeks. The show featured clips and backstage recordings from his Booky Wook 2 promotional tour. Brand was joined by a host of guests, including Noel Gallagher and Jonathan Ross.

Podcast
On 25 February 2015, Brand launched a twice-weekly podcast called The Russell Brand Podcast through audioBoom. The podcast reunited Brand with his radio presenting team of Matt Morgan and poet Mr Gee. The podcast ended after 24 episodes. In 2017, Brand launched a new podcast called Under the Skin with Russell Brand in which he interviews guests from areas such as academia, popular culture and the arts.

Writing
From 2006 until 2009, Brand wrote a column for The Guardian sports section that focused on West Ham United and the England national football team. A collection of the columns from 2006 and 2007 was released in 2007 in his book Irons in the Fire.

Brand's first autobiography, My Booky Wook, was released on 15 November 2007 and received favourable reviews. Andrew Anthony from The Observer commented that "Russell Brand's gleeful tale of drugs and debauchery in My Booky Wook puts most other celebrity memoirs to shame".

Brand signed a £1.8 million two-book deal with HarperCollins in June 2008. The first book, Articles of Faith, examined Brand's philosophy and consisted of a collection of his columns from The Guardian that first appeared there in 2007 and 2008. The book was published on 16 October 2008, and also includes Brand interviewing Noel Gallagher, James Corden, and David Baddiel about football. The second book for HarperCollins, Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal, was Brand's second autobiography and was released on 30 September 2010.

Brand has written articles for The Guardian that offer his perspectives on current events and pop culture, including the deaths of Amy Winehouse and Robin Williams. Following the 2011 London riots, Brand wrote a column in which he criticised the government's response to the riots in Summer 2011 as a failure to address the root causes.

Brand made his children's book debut in November 2014 with Russell Brand's Trickster Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It is the first instalment of an intended series, featuring illustrations by Chris Riddell. In The Guardian, reviewer Lucy Mangan noted: "The on-Brand need to be noticed is there on every page, his unwillingness to get out of the way of the story tripping the reader up at every turn" and adding that Chris Riddell's illustrations "give the book a beauty it does not deserve and a coherence the text does not deliver". Nicholas Tucker, in The Independent, noted the book's "wearingly offensive" language, and commented: "Brand's take on The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the first of a series of riffs on traditional fairy and folk tales. If they are all as bad as this one, British children's books will have hit a new low."

His book Revolution, in which Brand develops his earlier ideas, was published by Random House in October 2014 and received much publicity. Nick Cohen of The Observer called Brand's writing "atrocious: long-winded, confused and smug; filled with references to books Brand has half read and thinkers he has half understood." On the other hand, Steve Richards in The Independent commented: "Brand writes and speaks with verve, words flowing effortlessly and musically. The contrast with the tame wooden prose of elected politicians is marked."

In September 2017, Macmillan published Brand's book Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions. His next book, Mentors: How To Help and Be Helped, was published in January 2019. It deals with the people who have had a positive impact on his life and encourages us to look to others to become better individuals.

Pre–2023 allegations
In a 2006 interview, Dannii Minogue said Brand had sexually harassed her after she appeared on his TV show. She described him as "a bit of a vile predator", adding: "I certainly don't think he has cured his sex addiction." She said that Brand "wouldn't take no for an answer" and "throughout the whole interview he kept making shocking remarks that I can't even repeat".

In 2007, on Brand's BBC Radio 2 comedy show, he called former Jim'll Fix It host Jimmy Savile and asked to meet him. Savile answered that that would only happen if Brand brought along his sister if he had one. In response, Brand joked, "I've got a personal assistant [...] and part of her job description is that anyone I demand she greet, meet, massages, she has to do it. She's very attractive, Jimmy." When he asked Savile what she should wear, Savile replied he would "prefer her to wear nothing". The exchange between Brand and Savile was featured in the 2023 Channel 4 Dispatches documentary Russell Brand: In Plain Sight.

From 2006 to 2008 Brand received five complaints while he was a BBC radio host and presenter of both sexual misconduct and unprofessional workplace behaviour.

In 2014, former girlfriend Jordan Martin said Brand had committed sexual assault and physical and emotional abuse during their six-month relationship in 2007. She accused Brand of assaulting her at the Lowry Hotel in Salford when he became angry after discovering she had spoken to an ex-boyfriend.

While filming a programme with Brand in 2018, Katherine Ryan reportedly made remarks to Brand, indicating he was a "sexual predator"; these remarks were not broadcast.

Release
Early in 2019, The Sunday Times began inquiries after being made aware of allegations of sexual misconduct made against Russell Brand. In 2022, Channel 4's Dispatches began working with The Sunday Times and The Times to investigate the allegations. On 16 September 2023, allegations were published from four women anonymously, accusing Brand of sexual assaults, and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013, following the joint investigation. At the time concerned, the youngest of the women alleging abuse was aged 16 (the age of consent throughout the UK), while Brand was 31 and she accused him of sexual assault and of grooming her at the time. Most of the women, who The Times said do not know each other, have chosen to remain anonymous in fear of public harassment. Additionally, a fifth woman accused him of flashing his genitals at her. The Sunday Times noted that several of the accusers "felt compelled" to speak out "given Brand's newfound prominence as an online wellness influencer".

The reports noted that complaints about Brand's behaviour had been made to Lesley Douglas, then controller of BBC Radio 2, in 2007, after Brand allegedly urinated into a bottle "in full view of everyone" in the BBC Radio 2 studio and hurled objects "in fits of rage". Brand allegedly pursued female audience members for sex and exposed himself to a crew member on the shows EFourum and Big Brother's Big Mouth. Production company Endemol and Channel 4 released statements of regret, saying in part: "We are sorry these women did not feel supported and protected while working on these productions and in light of these serious allegations encourage them to contact us in confidence."

Reactions and aftermath
Brand responded by denying any criminal wrongdoing, saying his relationships "were absolutely always consensual" while stemming from a period of time when he was "very, very promiscuous". He said he had been contacted by both The Sunday Times and Channel 4 prior to the publication of the story, and said their reporting contained "a litany" of "astonishing, rather baroque attacks", saying at the report's core were "some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute".

On 16 September 2023, Brand performed at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in London. Brand told the audience, "I really appreciate your support. I love you. There are obviously some things I absolutely cannot talk about – and I appreciate that you will understand." On 18 September 2023, all remaining dates on the tour were postponed. Brand was also dropped by his agent Tavistock Wood amid the accusations. Wood released a statement, writing in part: "Russell Brand categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, but we now believe we were horribly misled by him."

YouTube said on 19 September that it had suspended Brand's ability to make money from his account; a spokesperson said, "This decision applies to all channels that may be owned or operated by Russell Brand." The director general of the BBC, Tim Davie, announced an internal review of complaints against Brand during his time working for the organisation. The BBC had already removed some material featuring Brand from its archive. The CEO of the media platform Rumble, Chris Pavlovski, on 21 September, instead said the company would not "join a cancel culture mob". Pavlovski rejected a House of Commons Media Committee request to join YouTube in removing the monetisation from Brand's channels "based solely on these media accusations"; he also stated that the parliament's request was "extremely disturbing".

Television presenter Vanessa Feltz released a clip of her appearance on Brand's TV show in 2006, where he asked if he could "have it off" with her or her daughters, which left her "deeply offended". Lorraine Kelly said she felt "uncomfortable" during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show after Brand touched her thigh and called her a "slut" in 2007.

Police and legal actions
After having encouraged anyone "who believes themself to have been a victim of sexual assault" to come forward, the Metropolitan Police received on 17 September an allegation of sexual assault against Brand said to have taken place in Soho, London, in 2003. The allegation arose after the Met "[approached] The Sunday Times and Channel 4 to ensure that anyone who believes they have been the victim of a sexual offence is aware of how to report this to the police." The alleged incident predates the period of alleged incidents covered in The Sunday Times and Channel 4 investigations. On 19 November 2023, Brand was questioned by police in connection with alleged sexual assaults.

On 21 September 2023, a woman accused Brand of exposing himself to her at the BBC's Los Angeles office in 2008, and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC Radio 2 show.

In November 2023, a woman accused Brand of exposing himself and later trapping and assaulting her in a bathroom during the film production in 2010 of comedy Arthur (2011). She was an extra on the film and brought forth a lawsuit against him and Warner Bros. On 3 November 2023, the lawsuit was filed against Brand under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which allowed victims of sexual offences for which the statute of limitations had lapsed a period of one year to file a suit. Warner Bros. Pictures and others involved in Arthur’s production were also named as defendants for neglecting, aiding and abetting misconduct of Brand on the film set.

2009–2012: Early interventions
In 2009, Brand attended the 2009 G20 London summit protests. Three years later, the Dalai Lama selected him to host the Buddhist leader's 2012 youth event in Manchester, due to "the power of spirituality to effect change in his own life". Brand testified in front of a parliamentary committee in April 2012, about drug addiction. He shared his BBC Three documentary, Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery and his view that drugs should be decriminalised.

In January 2009, Brand participated in a celebrity letter to The Independent—as a supporter of the Hoping Foundation—to condemn Israel's assault on Gaza, and the "cruel and massive loss of life of the citizens of Gaza". In February 2009, Brand and several other entertainers wrote to The Times in defence of leaders of the Baháʼí Faith, who were on trial in Iran at the time. In April 2009, he attended the 2009 G-20 London summit protests and spoke to the press.

Brand was selected by the Dalai Lama to host the Buddhist leader's 2012 youth event in Manchester. The Dalai Lama's representatives explained that Brand was selected because he had proved "the power of spirituality to effect change in his own life", while Brand stated to the BBC after the event: "I said yes because he's the living incarnation of Buddha and I thought, if you're around the Dalai Lama, that can only be good for your spiritual quest through life. He's an amazing diplomat, an incredible activist, a wonderful human being and an inspiration to us all."

In April 2012, Brand testified in front of a parliamentary committee about drug addiction, sharing his experiences and view that drugs should be decriminalised. He said, "I'm not a legal expert. I'm saying that, to a drug addict, the legal aspect is irrelevant. If you need to get drugs, you will. The criminal and legal status, I think, sends the wrong message. Being arrested isn't a lesson, it's just an administrative blip." Part of this testimony was included in a BBC Three documentary, Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery, that aired in December 2012. Brand said he felt compelled to make the film after the 2011 death of close friend Amy Winehouse, and he also used the opportunity to question how British society "deals with addicts and addiction".

2013: New Statesman, Newsnight
Brand has frequently campaigned for political issues. In June 2013, he appeared in a video in support of Chelsea Manning.

Brand was ejected from the GQ Awards show on 3 September 2013 after receiving the "Oracle" award. In his acceptance speech, he mentioned sponsor Hugo Boss's former business making uniforms for the Gestapo. Brand said of the Nazis, "They did look fucking fantastic, let's face it" before he goose stepped across the stage in a comical imitation of the Nazi march. Brand was eventually ejected from the event after GQ editor Dylan Jones confronted Brand with his view that the speech was "very offensive"—Brand replied by saying that the Nazis' treatment of the Jewish people was "very offensive".

On 23 October 2013, Brand was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman for the BBC's Newsnight in which he disparaged the British political system as ineffectual and encouraged the British electorate not to vote. He was challenged by Paxman about his call for "revolution" and whether someone who had never voted could edit a political magazine. When asked by Paxman what a revolution would look like, Brand replied:

"A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, [with] heavy taxation of corporations ... I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced ... I say profit is a filthy word, because wherever there is a profit there is also a deficit."

Brand guest-edited a special issue of the New Statesman that was published on 24 October 2013 and explored the theme of Revolution, and in which he explained his objection to the destruction of Earth through greed and exploitation, and called for a change in consciousness to accompany political and economic measures to achieve a more sustainable future.

In November that year Brand joined the Anonymous Million Mask March in London that protested against "cuts, corruption and an increase in state surveillance".

2014–2017: The Trews and Revolution
In January 2014, Brand was invited by the Cambridge Union Society to participate in an interview, held in the Union's debating chamber with Leo Kirby, the Union's 2014 Speakers' Officer. The interview ran for more than an hour and was published on the Union's YouTube channel.

Brand launched his YouTube series The Trews: True News with Russell Brand on 27 February 2014, in which he "analyses the news, truthfully, spontaneously and with great risk to his personal freedom". In addition to news analysis, he regularly has guests on the show, including economists, journalists and activists. By the end of the year, more than 200 episodes had been released on the channel. The show was halted for nearly a year as he decided to be away from social media to focus on his personal and professional growth.

In June 2014, he took part in the People's Assembly Against Austerity, that attracted an estimated 50,000 people marching from the BBC office to Westminster. Brand addressed the crowd, saying, "The people of this building [the House of Commons] generally speaking do not represent us, they represent their friends in big business. It's time for us to take back our power. Power isn't there, it is here, within us. The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have."

In October 2014, at the time Brand's book Revolution was published, John Lydon (also known as "Johnny Rotten" of the Sex Pistols), in an interview with Polly Toynbee of The Guardian, said that Brand's advocacy of non-voting is "the most idiotic thing I've ever heard". In a November 2014 YouGov poll, involving a selection of celebrities, Brand was chosen as the one with the most negative influence on political debate (46%). The poll also found that 60% of poll participants disliked him and 28% liked him.

Shortly afterwards, Brand appeared on Newsnight again, but was interviewed by Evan Davis on this occasion. Asked about 9/11 conspiracy theories and whether the attacks were perpetrated by the American government, Brand commented: "[w]e have to remain open-minded to [that] kind of possibility", although this section of the interview ended with Brand stating that he did not "want to talk about daft conspiracy theories".

BBC Three commissioned Brand to make a documentary on the global "War on Drugs", which aired on 26 November 2014. The film, titled Russell Brand: End the Drugs War, shows him exploring the illicit drug policies of other countries in search of a compassionate approach to people who use illicit drugs. Brand said in the documentary, "People think compassion is 'wet liberalism'; it's not, it's pragmatic".

On 2 December 2014, Brand joined East London residents to protest over the increase in rents at the New Era housing estate. During a protest for the New Era residents, Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O'Brien continually pushed Brand to answer questions about the value of his own property, which is rented. The line of questioning irritated Brand, who ended up calling the reporter a "snide"—the short clip went viral on YouTube.

Later that month, on 11 December, Brand appeared on the BBC's Question Time programme which included the UK Independence Party's leader Nigel Farage as one of the other panellists. Brand called Farage "a pound shop Enoch Powell" on-air, and the two men continued to trade insults after the programme had ended.

In January 2015, during the television show Channel 4's Big Fat Anniversary Quiz, Brand insulted the politician Ed Balls. Balls responded by calling Brand a "pound shop Ben Elton". In March, Brand announced he would use money from his Revolution book to open a café, the Trew Era Cafe on the New Era estate in the London Borough of Hackney, which would employ recovering drug addicts. The café opened on 26 March 2015 and in September the following year Brand donated it to the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust. In March, readers of Prospect magazine voted Brand the fourth-most influential thinker in the world, behind Thomas Piketty, Yanis Varoufakis, and Naomi Klein.

The film documentary Brand: A Second Coming, which reflects on Brand's journey into political activism, premiered at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2015. Brand and director Michael Winterbottom worked together to produce a documentary, The Emperor's New Clothes, that had its international premiere on 24 April 2015 at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film features archival footage with appearances by Brand in London and New York City, examining the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and global economic inequality. The documentary is produced by Brand's Revolution Films company and distributed by StudioCanal UK.

On 29 April 2015, eight days ahead of 2015 UK general election, Brand published an interview with Labour leader Ed Miliband on an episode of The Trews as part of a Trews Politics Week series. Miliband stated that he took part to win over people like Brand who do not vote, although his opponent David Cameron deemed the entire interview a "joke". The following day Brand released an interview with Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and Green MP Caroline Lucas, giving his support to Lucas in Brighton advising people there to vote Green. He also criticised an election "set up not to represent people's wishes".

Following these interviews, three days before the election, Brand released the final episode of The Trews Politics Week entitled "Emergency: VOTE To Start Revolution" releasing additional material from his discussion with Ed Miliband and stating "I think we've got no choice but to take decisive action to end the danger of the Conservative party". He dropped his anti-voting position and "declared the importance of voting", backing Labour and telling his fans that "You gotta vote Labour", although he admitted "that he couldn't be sure of the reality of what a Labour government would mean". Brand was not registered to vote in the 2015 election.

On 20 August 2015, Brand released episode 366 of The Trews titled "Final Episode Of The Trews – Goodbye, Good Luck", which he said would be the final episode of the series. The Trews returned on 12 October 2016.

Brand endorsed Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 Labour Party leadership election. Ahead of the 2017 United Kingdom general election, he wrote in The Huffington Post that Corbyn "has the qualities I want in a strong and stable leader". Regarding the 2015 election, he said: "You know I never actually said 'don't vote'? I said 'There's no point in voting when the main political parties are basically indistinguishable and the relationship between government, big business and factions of the media make it impossible for the democratic will of the people to be realised.

2021–present: conspiracy theory accusations and Stay Free
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Brand's YouTube channel underwent an increase in activity and change in political direction, and was accused of promoting COVID denial and conspiracy theories. According to culture reporter Louis Chilton, his videos are usually "framed with some sort of contrarian take or calling out hypocrisy in the mainstream media", and often hint "at a vague, world-altering conspiracy". Chilton questioned Brand's motives, suggesting that sceptics might "question why he advertises his stand-up tour just seconds into the start of each clip". In March 2023, Finn McRedmond of the New Statesman, which Brand had guest-edited in 2013, described Brand as having now melded his "trad-socialist values" with "all the suspicions and anxieties of the new American right".

Brand's YouTube channel saw significant growth in popularity during this time, amassing 6.5 million subscribers and at least a billion views. His new weekly views rose from a low of under 500,000 in November 2020 to about 14.5 million in March 2022. In September 2021, Brand told people attending his tour how they could bypass COVID-19 safety measures. The following month, YouTube began reviewing some of Brand's videos to see if they violated the site's COVID-19 vaccine policies. In 2022, Brand reacted to the World Health Organization's meetings on the pandemic treaty, saying "Your democracy is fucking finished" and that the world had "lapsed into a terrible technocratic, globalist agenda". Early that year, Brand released a video decrying the media for allegedly ignoring the Canada convoy protest.

Columnist Charlotte Lytton accused Brand of following Joe Rogan "down the rabbit hole of online misinformation" by pandering to the anti-vaccine movement and spreading pro-Russian conspiracy theories about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, for example promoting unfounded claims of US bioweapon labs in Ukraine. Elon Musk defended Brand from media criticism on Twitter, saying: "I watched some of his videos. Ironically, he seemed more balanced & insightful than those condemning him! The groupthink among major media companies is more troubling. There should be more dissent." When YouTube took down one of his videos in September 2022, citing its policy on medical misinformation, he moved his channel to Rumble, where he launched a new daily live show, Stay Free with Russell Brand.

On 15 May 2024, Brand performed a comedy set at a campaign event for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in which he voiced conspiracy theories similar to those promoted by Kennedy. Brand was paid around $70,000 for his performance.

Brand has hinted at his support for both Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and also Nigel Farage on his YouTube channel, but has stopped short of explicit endorsements. In 2024, he attended the Republican National Convention in support of Trump.

Personal life
Brand has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder. He also says he has had bulimia, and pornography addiction, and experienced a period of self-harming. Brand has described the concept of fame as "like ashes" in his mouth.

Brand used to be a Buddhist; speaking to The Guardian in 2017 he said he believed in a higher power as described by Alcoholics Anonymous. Brand showed interest in the Hare Krishna Movement and wrote in a 2007 Guardian column: "I say Hare Krishna as often as possible, sometimes even when I'm not being filmed". Additionally, during an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in October 2010, Brand talked about his love of Transcendental Meditation (TM). This love of TM was reaffirmed in a 2013 New Statesman editorial he wrote: "Through Transcendental Meditation, twice daily I feel the bliss of the divine..... I connect to a boundless consciousness that has no palpable relationship with my thoughts, fears or desires." He later gravitated towards Christian spirituality and practice by daily reciting the Lord's Prayer and attempting to have Christ consciousness. He started wearing a crucifix, engaged in sacrifices during Lent, and stated: "I pray the Rosary every single day." In April 2024, Brand was baptised.

In 2011, Brand served as best man at Noel Gallagher's wedding to Sara MacDonald. Since 2016, Brand has been training in the martial art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has earned a purple belt in the discipline. He credits the art with improving his life in several ways. At the time of his 2017 wedding, Brand lived near Henley-on-Thames. He is a lifelong supporter of West Ham United. Brand is the owner of The Crown Inn pub in Pishill, a village near his Henley-on-Thames home.

Brand is a teetotaller.

Relationships
Brand first met American singer Katy Perry in mid-2009 when she filmed a cameo for his film Get Him to the Greek, although the cameo was cut from the film. They began dating after meeting again at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in September. The two became engaged on New Year's Eve 2009 during a holiday in India, and married there on 23 October 2010 in a Hindu ceremony, near the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan.

On 30 December 2011, Brand filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, and their divorce was finalised in July 2012. Perry's July 2012 autobiographical documentary, Katy Perry: Part of Me, showed the couple having conflicting career schedules and Perry not feeling ready to have children. Perry also later said in an interview that Brand did not like the idea of her "being the boss" of things, and that the last time she had heard from him was on 31 December 2011, when he text-messaged that he was divorcing her.

Days after his divorce was finalised, Brand said in an interview with Howard Stern that he was extremely in love with Perry, but after marrying her realised "this isn't really working out ... I was really, really in love with her, but it was difficult to see each other ... it mostly didn't work for practical reasons". While Stern pressed for details, Brand declined, saying: "I don't want anything to hurt her. She's younger than me, she's a young woman and she's beautiful and she's sensitive and I care about her deeply." Brand, who married Perry without a prenuptial agreement, was eligible to claim half of the estimated $44 million she earned during their marriage, but declined.

In 2012, he briefly dated singer Geri Halliwell. From 2013 to 2014, Brand was in a relationship with Jemima Goldsmith (formerly known as Jemima Khan), a daughter of financier James Goldsmith. In May 2014, Brand received libel damages from The Sun after the paper had printed a story in November 2013 alleging that he had been unfaithful to Khan. Brand said he would be donating the unspecified damages to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign. Brand and Khan ended their relationship in September 2014.

In the October 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, Brand said of the allegations of misogyny made against him: "I have lived a life and had a frame of cultural references that make that charge quite legitimate... But as a person who's trying to live a decent, spiritual life, misogyny is not part of my current palette of behaviors... In a way, redemption is a great part of my narrative. I'm talking about disavowing previous lives, previous beliefs, previous behaviours."

Since 2015, Brand has been in a relationship with Scottish blogger and former restaurateur Laura Gallacher, the sister of television presenter Kirsty Gallacher and daughter of Bernard Gallacher. Brand and Gallacher first dated in 2007, when Gallacher was 19 and Brand was 30. Their first daughter was born in November 2016. Brand married Gallacher in Henley-on-Thames on 26 August 2017. In July 2018, Brand and Gallacher had a second daughter. Brand confirmed in January 2024 that their son was born in 2023.

Alleged battery and criminal damage charges
On 16 September 2010, Brand was arrested on suspected battery charges after he allegedly attacked a paparazzo who blocked his and then-fiancée Katy Perry's way to catch a flight at Los Angeles International Airport. The paparazzo placed Brand under citizen's arrest until the police arrived and he was released from custody the next day after posting US$20,000 bail.

On 15 March 2012, an arrest warrant was issued for Brand in New Orleans because of allegations that he had thrown a photographer's mobile phone through a window. The paparazzo was taking pictures of Brand with an iPhone when Brand wrestled the device from his hands and tossed it at a law firm's window. The warrant cited "simple criminal damage to property", leading Brand, who offered to pay for the replacement of the window, to voluntarily appear at a police station. Brand was filming a movie in New Orleans at the time of the incident.

Illegal drug use
The media published articles on Brand during his drug-using period, typically in relation to incidents, and his public profile has since been associated with this era. Drug-related issues led to Brand's arrest on twelve occasions. Brand was ejected from The Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh and following a subsequent show in the city in 2004, a reviewer stated that "you'd rather hug him than hit him", as he had embraced recovery by this point. Following the cessation of his use, Brand revealed through his stand-up performances that he introduced his drug dealer to Kylie Minogue during his time at MTV and said he had performed manual sex on a male stranger in a public toilet for a television programme, adding: "I must say, it wasn't for me. I didn't really enjoy it. My tendencies and inclinations towards women are very, very powerful. I like them very much. It's just a biological urge."

In January 2014, Brand described his first experience with heroin as "blissful". Brand said on Twitter in 2014 that he has abstained from drug use since 13 December 2002. He was a patron of the Focus 12 drug treatment programme and rehabilitation charity after his own use of the service; the charity closed in 2018. Brand's sobriety was instigated by his agent, John Noel, after Brand was apprehended using heroin in a bathroom during a Christmas party. Brand cites his practice of transcendental meditation as a significant factor in his recovery from drug dependence. Brand organised three fundraisers for Focus 12 in London, Dublin and Belfast in 2009, and has also acted as a "sponsor" for numerous people during the rehabilitation stage of their treatment process.

Stand-up DVDs

 * Live (20 November 2006)
 * Doing Life – Live (26 November 2007)
 * Scandalous – Live at the O2 (9 November 2009)
 * Live in New York City (21 November 2011)
 * Messiah Complex (25 November 2013)
 * Brandemic (15 March 2023)

Interviews

 * Caroline Frost, "Russell Brand Talks, Love, Sex, Ambition and Revolution", Herald Sun, 27 March 2009 (audio)
 * Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Policing & Noam Chomsky. Democracy Now! 14 November 2014 (video)

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Klas Ingesson

Klas Inge "Klabbe" Ingesson (20 August 1968 – 29 October 2014) was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. He spent most of his career as a midfielder in Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Italy and France. Ingesson represented the Sweden national team on 57 occasions, including the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1992 European Championship. He was the manager of IF Elfsborg from 2013 until his death in October 2014.

Playing career
He played for IFK Göteborg in Sweden, K.V. Mechelen in Belgium, PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Sheffield Wednesday in England, Bari, Bologna and Lecce in Italy, and Marseille in France.

At Sheffield Wednesday, he encountered players "who went straight to the pub after training but still able to run like wild animals come Saturday". Manager Trevor Francis recruited him to replace Carlton Palmer, but Ingesson only played in 18 games (plus three in the domestic cups). He scored two goals for Sheffield Wednesday, one against Everton 26 December 1994 and one against Arsenal 4 February 1995. Ingesson later suffered groin injuries and after Francis was replaced by new manager David Pleat, Ingesson was dropped from the starting 11. In November 1995 Ingesson was sold to Bari in Italy.

Coaching career
On 30 September 2013, Ingesson was appointed manager of IF Elfsborg.

Personal life
After retiring from playing Ingesson became a lumberjack, and also appeared as a presenter on the Swedish TV programme Farlig Fritid ("Dangerous Leisures").

On 14 May 2009, Ingesson announced that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. The treatment was at the start said to be going "in the right direction". Ingesson fully recovered and, in December 2010, made a football comeback by accepting an offer to guide the IF Elfsborg under-21 youth team. On 8 January 2013, Ingesson revealed that the myeloma had returned, and that he would have a stem cell transplant, as the two previous autologous (i.e. of his own stem cells) transplants had been unsuccessful.

On 29 October 2014, Ingesson died of the effects of multiple myeloma. He was married and had two children.

International
Appearances and goals by national team and year International goals
 * Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first.

Honours

 * IFK Göteborg
 * UEFA Cup: 1986–87
 * Allsvenskan: 1990
 * Swedish Champions: 1987, 1990

 * Bologna
 * UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1998
 * Sweden
 * FIFA World Cup Third Place: 1994

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