In her Substack post, Lucy Siegle argues the Guardian minimises its ties to Russell Brand in its editorial on his conviction, noting he wrote 137 columns for the paper, had his book serialised, headlined a Guardian Live event the day after a 2014 headline about a masseuse silenced by an injunction, and appeared beside former editor Alan Rusbridger in a 2013 photograph. Drawing on her own complaint against Observer columnist Nick Cohen and the Guardian's 2023 apology to her, she cites George Monbiot's apology and Abbie Richards's "eras" of Brand, and says she will publish her letter in full the following week, expecting the Guardian not to.