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Analysing Aaronovitch: has the scourge of ‘conspiracists’ become one himself?

David Aaronovitch claims ‘unbelievable’ notions about child abuse that ‘bewitched’ professionals decades ago are echoed in the VIP historic abuse cases. Where is his evidence? Part One.

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Newspaper front pages on Rolf Harris's arrest Credit: Raver Mikey/Flickr

This is the first part of a two-part article. Read part two

Suddenly the calumny about VIP historic sexual abuse has attracted new suspects: satanism, repressed memory, recovered memory, false memories, false accusations, dissociated identity disorder and children’s suggestibility. Society, we are warned, has swung from denial to credulity, to belief in the unbelievable.