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We might, as your columnist Gideon Rachman does, label those delusional (if not deranged) world leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump as conspiracy theorists (“When world leaders believe in conspiracies”, Opinion, October 4). One would be correct in
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I used to think conspiracy theories were the refuge of the powerless and the uneducated. The conviction that dark and secretive forces are manipulating world events was the mark of an outsider, surfing the internet or shouting in the streets.
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On September 24 1950, a strange article appeared in the Miami Sunday News. “Brainwashing,” it began, “is the principal activity on the Chinese mainland nowadays. Unrevealed, thousands of men and women are having their brains ‘washed’.” The author’s name was
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Lex reports that UFO sightings have increased dramatically, and concludes that this may be in large part explained by mass hysteria; a not unreasonable hypothesis in a nation that was once upon a time paralysed by Orson Welles’ radio play
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The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed media company covering European start-ups If the purpose of creating a governmental disinformation unit is to increase trust in the information flow of a free society then the launch of the US
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As Niagara Falls thundered in the background, a gleaming white Porsche Taycan swept silently on to the stage. At the exact same moment, an identical sister vehicle rode on to a platform beside a German field that boasted 600,000 solar
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In December 2020 Tiffany Dover, a nurse manager from Tennessee, was interviewed by reporters shortly after receiving her first Covid vaccination. Then, live on television, she fainted. A rumour subsequently took hold that Dover had died and the vaccine was
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Pakistan’s military establishment has dismissed ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s claims that he was the victim of a US-led conspiracy, and described his visit to Moscow on the day Russia invaded Ukraine as “embarrassing”. In rare public comments on Thursday,
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Growing up in a communal apartment in Leningrad, a young Vladimir Putin liked to chase rats across the stairwell with sticks. One day, he spotted a particularly huge rat and drove it into a corner. Suddenly, it threw itself at
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I came across someone out of his mind with anger on the streets of Berlin last week. A tall, agitated man was hurling his bike around and screaming into the night air. The theme of his discourse seemed to be
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