At the entrance to the Clarkson Academy in London was a dark poster in black and blue of a lightbulb. It looked, at first, like a corporate stock photo. Inside the meeting room, I took a seat among a mostly white audience who cheered on Brexit, laughed about Extinction Rebellion and listened intently to a former lobbyist share his insights into UK politics.
Looking more closely at the poster, the filament in the lightbulb was shaped in the outline of a foetus, illuminated in orange. The men and women around me hadn’t assembled to talk about the EU or climate change. And the former lobbyist focused his speech on “blood sacrifices” and abortion and homosexuality as part of a “Satanic revolution”.
Yes, you read that correctly. His exact words were “the homosexual agenda is one front of the Satanic revolution. Other fronts include abortion” – as well as supposed pushes to legalise cannibalism and paedophilia. Abortions are “ritual child sacrifices”, he continued, claiming that Satanists conduct ritual abortions in (unnamed) “high-profile” facilities in the US, where women sway while chanting “our bodies, ourselves”.
