London Calling: When Russell Brand talked to us about the premium the British place on good manners, he clearly wasn’t kidding. Brand has now been forced to quit his BBC radio show for a nigh-impenetrable scandal involving the waiter from Fawlty Towers and some ribald voicemails. The version you’ve put together in your head is likely easier to follow than what transpired in real life, but at least the BBC provides an impressively detailed timeline of the matter. We’re still waiting for a rebuttal from Jordin Sparks to help us make sense of it all. [BBC]