[…] …Cosplaying John the Baptist in his daks. Brand’s high-profile Christian turn has been regarded mostly, and understandably, with suspicion; having been hit with a raft of sexual abuse allegations about a year ago, his big and extremely public adoption of Jesusness (read Matthew 6:5 lately, Russ?) looks like some sort of attempt to deflect from those or something. No one is seriously buying it, and nor should they, although I am interested to discover that it’s not actually a new interest as such; this is him talking about it in 2017: […]