Reviewing, and occasionally contributing to various threads on politics, Trump
et seq, it's clear that some of the lunacy the characterises aspects of the US Presidential Elections (indeed, much of the political discourse) is slithering its way across the Atlantic to these Sceptre'd isles. I give you the bonkers conspiracy group QAnon, and their UK offshoots.
I enclose an interesting and detailed article from the BBC; interestingly only the other day I was speaking to the mother of a friend of my daughter who is convinced that there are paedophile rings operating out of Buckingham Palace, No 10 and bizarrely, Nando's. I suggested that this was a dangerous accusation to make; she retorted that she had 'read all about it' inevitably, on Facebook.
Have large sections of the population lost the ability to think for themselves?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-54065470