My apologies to Russell Brand I don't watch Big Brother or read those papers (I live in Ireland). So the name was unfamiliar to me, and I have seen too much of that sort of Satanist/cult rhetoric on the internet which wasn't fake, so have to confess I didn't read all the way through it. The first paragraphs were enough to put me off, as is the insulting open letter to Billy Bragg. If it's a send up, OK - but there's nothing in the letter to indicate that, and it reads exactly like so much other abuse and hate-flames that are for real. There certainly IS a Russell Brand MySpace page that starts out with that "my cult" verbiage and claims to be the same "Russell" who wrote the open letter. But I didn't stay with it after about half a page, so missed the fact that it was intended to be humourous. I think a lot of people, if they only see the open letter, might react in the same way but maybe it was only me having a bad hair day.