<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/brandgate-mount.html">Archie Bland: Brandgate - mountains and molehills</a>

Tuesday 28 October 2008 12:31 EDT

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Whatever one's views of the foulness of Russell Brand's mouth, and whether it really warrants an OFCOM enquiry or can really reasonably be used as a starting point for the kind of systematic assault on the BBC that it seems to have engendered, it's worth noting two facts.

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