Help! My mother is a conspiracy theorist | News | The Sunday Times

There was one stand-out response to the video that emerged from last weekend’s anti-vaccination protests in Trafalgar Square in London, in which Kate Shemirani, a former nurse in her fifties, incited the crowd to send in the names of doctors and nurses who supported the vaccine rollout. It came from her son, Sebastian.

The 22-year-old gave a heartbreaking interview to the BBC last week in which he talked about his gradual alienation from his mother, who is now so mired in conspiracy theories that he has given up all hope of getting her back again.

“My mum is definitely beyond help,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, as he talked about her “God complex” that had made it impossible to communicate with her.

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