Undercover at Britain’s ‘conspiracy school’
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A group of former teachers and a cryptocurrency trader are teaching at a suspected illegal school, Universallkidz in Manchester, in which children are being educated to become the next generation of conspiracy theorists. The Times’ Tom Ball went undercover as a teacher to find out more.
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| 0:58.0 | Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. From the Times and Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manveen Rana. In a community center in Manchester a group of children are sitting around a table. |
| 1:20.0 | In a community centre in Manchester a group of children are sitting around a table, their eyes |
| 1:26.1 | tightly shut, small hands folded over little crystal pyramids. |
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