Andrew Gold

“Britain is a post-revolutionary society. It’s already happened.” What he said gave me goosebumps.

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo argues that Britain’s elites have spent decades remaking the country through its institutions—changing its symbols, denigrating its heroes and teaching the next generation to be ashamed of its past.

He draws a disturbing parallel with communist Eastern Europe: change the banknotes, pull down the statues, rewrite the history.

Then I showed him the reading list from an essay I wrote at university…

He warns that Britain’s divisions could turn into sectarian conflict between radical Islam and white nationalism.

“We only have five or ten years left to save this country.”

Is he right—and can we still turn it around?

Daniel Sloss thinks Russell Brand is nowhere near as intelligent as people think he is.

I disagreed with him.

Brand has built huge audiences, reinvented himself repeatedly and can speak with incredible confidence. Surely that requires intelligence?

Sloss’s answer was immediate:

“Watch me. He’s not.”

His argument is that being able to use long words and sound intelligent is very different from actually being wise.

He says it is easy to sound smart, especially when you are confident enough to never question yourself.

His harshest assessment was that Brand is “what a dumb person thinks a smart person sounds like.”

I pushed back.

If somebody has done terrible things, is there a temptation to also decide they must be stupid?

Smart people can do terrible things too. And even if Brand’s public persona is an act, successfully convincing millions of people of it could itself be a form of intelligence.

Sloss still wasn’t convinced.

He compared it to a snake oil salesman.

The best ones are eloquent. They sound confident. They make what they’re saying feel convincing enough that people get pulled in.

And once somebody has bought into it, Sloss says there is another problem:

“It’s harder to admit that you were conned.”

So is Russell Brand genuinely intelligent, or simply exceptionally good at sounding like he is?

What if the West’s revolution has already happened, and we just didn’t notice it?

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo argues that Britain is already a “post-revolutionary society”, shaped by a gradual cultural shift that has taken place over decades.

Psychopath David Wood reveals his manipulation tactics.

He explains how unpredictable rewards and punishments can make people easier to control, and why one of these methods can become genuinely addictive.

Gene Simmons says his views on Donald Trump have been misunderstood.

He explains why he believes respecting the office matters, and whether those views ever cost him work.