Brand and Ross: Right wing victory

The suspension of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross for their phone calls to Andrew Sachs is not just a dark day for entertainment, but for common sense.

Russell Brand is famous for his autobiographical conquest-by-conquest sense of humour. Andrew Sachs’s granddaughter knew this when the Satanic Slut had self-confessed casual sex with him then sold her story; Andrew Sachs knew this when he agreed to go on his popular radio show to plug himself and the BBC knew this when they hired him to help their ratings.

If you don’t like Ross and Brand’s sense of humour, that’s your right, but both have extremely popular TV and radio shows and podcasts. To take them off the air because 18,000 people are angry about a radio show they’ve not even heard is absurd.

I despise X Factor, but I don’t call for it to be taken off the air because its manipulation of people’s emotions is twisted and sinister – although maybe I should now.

Yes the phone calls were offensive, but only to Andrew Sachs. To bow down to the Daily Mail’s anti-BBC shrieking is embarrassing for everyone involved.

And if one newspaper wants to set itself up as the protectors of British morality, it’s probably best that it’s not the only English newspaper to back the Nazi party after it started invading Europe.