‘Globalists’ trying to silence me, claims Russell Brand in conspiracy-filled live stream as police open probe

Russell Brand attempted to press on with his career as a fringe video content creator on Monday, less than an hour after the Met Police confirmed it had opened an investigation into allegations of “non-recent sexual offences”.

In a live stream on YouTube and the streaming platform Rumble, Mr Brand claimed: “I now, in particular, have a new experience on the way the media and the state can cooperate and corroborate one another’s stories.

“I’m beginning to sense that if you publicly question important stories that are agenda-led, like the war in Ukraine and the response to the Covid pandemic, it appears there is some significant heft behind controlling those narrative spaces.”

Mr Brand said the “state and the legacy media” were part of a “war on free speech”, claiming the media was a “cartel” seeking to “shut down, oppress, shut down, stamp on, independent media voices” on behalf of “globalist elite diktats” as “they simply don’t want opposing voices out there”.

The Metropolitan Police on Monday confirmed it was investigating a “number of allegations of sexual offences in London”, as well as elsewhere in the country, following claims made by four women in a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches.

Mr Brand, 48, has strongly denied the accusations made against him.

He read from a script accusing Caroline Dinenage, the head of the UK parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee, of being “implicated in London’s war on Covid-19 and Ukraine dissenters” after she wrote to a number of social media companies raising concerns about profits from his content on their platforms.

Mr Brand read false claims that this was a “direct British government decree” and incorrectly referred to Ms Dinenage, who is a backbench Tory MP, as a “Government minister”.

He also cited the military service of her husband, former Deputy Commander of the 77th Brigade.

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Mr Brand continued: “The bypass of judicial process, right to punitive measures, financial ones, seems to be an interesting one for a Government minister [sic] to be suggesting.

“What we appear to be looking at here is a set of collaborating institutions that have an agenda and pursue that agenda.”

During the live stream, Mr Brand urged viewers to move from YouTube to Rumble after the better-known video giant ‘demonetized’ his videos. He also pressed them to make financial contributions, suggesting it would be “crucial” in the weeks ahead.

“I’m beginning to think our organisation is having an impact due to recent events”, he added.

Mr Brand, who drew a live audience of more than 80,000, used the comeback stream to reference a number of conspiracy theories, railing against “globalists” and suggesting that “psyops units” deployed against Isis were now being used against “domestic populations”.

Mr Brand also said that concerns about Covid vaccines were “worthy of discussion” – and suggested Vladimir Putin was “provoked” into the war in Ukraine as a result of “Nato infringement” and that the “military-industrial complex are invested in what some regard as a money laundering operation” in the country.

Vladimir Putin had offered “the recipe for the peaceful resolution of this conflict,” he added.