Russell Brand's answer to driver-cyclist aggro: a big hug!

whether you love or hate Mr Brand, at least he did SOMETHING, rather than just sit in his Merc. tutting to himself. It seems to have worked too. The cyclist probably thought that if he didn't calm down quick then Russel may give him another hug.

So the answer to road rage is to have friendly celebs posted at every major junction, a male and female at each. It'll also supplement their income, as long as they receive additional funding from somewhere.

I'd tell him to mind is own business and push him away.

If the guy driving a car makes a deliberate or wanton move to injure me (and I am forgiving of those who make a genuine mistake, for me a row requires an escalation by the driver), and I'm giving him a piece of my mind, a hug is not likely to placate me.

Nor indeed should it.

The driver needs to understand that his vehicle can cause serious injury to other people on the road. Riders getting Fisty are just about the only way there is reciprocity of that.

Don't get in the way or you might just getting indirectly "reciprossed". You wouldn't like that. Even if your name is Russell Brand.

The lad on the bike is hardly a slightly built mountain goat roadie and he was in full on rowing mode when Brand decided to go over and chill things out.

He's also been in some pretty suspect situations due to his former drug use. Well, you hardly pick up class 'A' drugs from the local WI bake sale now do you?

I think it's fair to say that Brand has got some balls on him.

But some keyboard warriors reckon they'd leather him if he got involved?

Insert some sort of roll eyes type emoticon here if you so wish.

Love the idea, I'd like to see an angry white van man react to a good cuddle.

Though, as someone with a quite severe OCD in relation to "other peoples germs" - I'd rather maybe just give them a flower or something.

This should become a major part of new London cycle safety and general driver and cyclist 'share the road' campaigns. We should plan for a London wide roll out of Russell Brands across all major junctions. They would act to remind drivers to be careful, for cyclists to watch out and be thoughtful, and for everyone to love everyone.

On that basis I think we should have launch a Kickstarter fund to get the money to work with the Wellcome Trust to start a large scale, accelerated cloning programme of Russell Brand; if anyone dares handle his DNA. Hands up if you can chip in a fiver.

He's much more likeable these days, we could all learn something from this situation.

If that bat-faced, self-obsessed 'dandy' stopped his car and interfered in my row to give me a hug I couldn't guarantee my forehead wouldn't come into contact with the bridge of his nose as we embraced.

A punch in the face to the van driver would have been equally welcome.

Nice.

Only a hug from Kylie would work for me .... each to their own I suppose !