Russell Brand says he would die for a communist revolution

Russell Brand seems to be treading a fine line between madness and sanity, declaring that he would be prepared to die for his communist revolution.

Brand turned up to an interview with Financial Times reporter, Lucy Kellaway, in a chauffeur driven Mercedes and told her that he would be prepared to die or go to prison for his revolution and will probably give up his millions. He gripped her arms and legs repeatedly during the interview and when she questioned his politics he told her to shut up. She said that it made her feel uncomfortable.

He angered a lot of Americans after suggesting that 9/11 was an inside job during a Newsnight interview this week before saying that he didn't want to talk about daft conspiracy theories. He also did the arm and leg gripping thing on Newsnight and was so erratic and nonsensical that presenter Evan Davis told him that he was trying to take him seriously.

Brand seems to be trying to reinvent himself as a cross between Che Guevara and Osama Bin Laden and that's quite worrying. Millionaires with a tenuous grip on sanity and an extremist left wing ideology aren't generally remembered for making a positive contribution to society.

EU to asset strip Polish shipyards

The Polish shipyard that was a focal point for their struggle against communism is likely to be sold off in a communist-style national asset stripping by the EU.

The EU wants to force the sale of Poland's state owned shipyards which it says aren't entitled to the state aid the Polish government has given them. The money from the sale would have to be used to pay back the state aid rather than used as an incentive to their new owners to modernise the shipyards.

The EU's Competition Commissioner has suggested that the shipyards could be converted to do something else.

How betrayed the Polish people must feel having fought long and hard to throw off the oppression of communism, only to be sold to the socialist dictatorship that is the EU. The picture on the BBC News website (above, right) says it all.