In a video posted last year, sandwiched between episodes on what the Covid vaccine provider Pfizer “isn’t telling you” and the “bezerker” qualities of Donald Trump as a consensus-breaking force – familiar themes for the millions of subscribers to Russell Brand’s Stay Free channel – there was a change of tone.
The subject of the daily episode was not the usual diet of conspiracy theories, critiques of the mainstream media and whimsical football chat but instead the US libel trial involving Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in which the veracity of the allegations of domestic abuse made by the Hollywood star’s former wife were being examined.
