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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

The Conspiracy Trap – How even MPs fall into it

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

More and more high-profile figures are falling for conspiracy theories. And here in the UK, British MPs are seemingly becoming increasingly susceptible to engaging with them. Why now? Andrew Harrison asks Tom Phillips, co-author with friend of the pod Jonn Elledge of Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them.  Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast   Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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nightmare. I'm Andrew Harrison. Today conspiracy theory it used to be an

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esoteric interest for odd people on the fringes of society. Then during Brexit, COVID and the Trump

1:23.9

presidency it migrated into the mainstream, particularly the tangled mess that

1:28.3

includes Q and on pizza gate and the great replacement theory that white America is going to be erased by immigration.

1:34.8

Now in the UK we're increasingly saying politicians coming out with inflammatory unsource

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claims, wild assertions from the fringes, and out and out falsehoods.

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In recent weeks, lay Anderson, Liz Truss, Labour's disowned Rochdale by-election candidate Azar Ali,

1:49.6

and the prominent Brexit supporter Andrew Bridgin MP have all trotted out bizarre theories about the world

1:55.3

from Islamist and deep state conspiracies to the idea that Israel stood back and allowed the

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