Katie Tobin

Katie Tobin is a writer and researcher based in London. 

From The Blog
10 November 2026

Russell Brand has been sentenced to ten years in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. For his defence, Brand claimed that the encounters were all consensual even though he couldn’t remember them. ‘Consent is fundamental, essential, necessary,’ he told the court. Obvious as this should be, Brand’s past boasts imply that he saw consent not as a bare minimum, but as an obstacle to be overcome.

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