THE RISE AND EVENTUAL FALL OF CULTS

Cult behaviour is all around us. The Cass review has - perhaps - delivered the transgender one a significant blow. The best indictor is the rat-and-sinking-ship behaviour of enablers, like Education Secretary Gillian Keegan or Labour's Wes Streeting. They always knew there were only two genders and are now in full 'reverse-ferret'. But that still leaves the anthropogenic climate catastrophists and the Covid/WHO fanatics, both in full spate. 

Time and again this pattern recurs in human history, from business to religion to politics to academia. If sufficient numbers are involved - as perpetrators or dupes - then the incentive gap is too large for widescale disavowal, until the dam bursts. There are too many people with too much to lose. They dominate our universities (including Oxbridge), our media, our politics, our Civil Service, our intelligentsia, our arts, our public sector, and our top industries and businesses. In short, all our public life. 

It's especially disturbing that the government and its agencies actively use experts in creating fear and mass delusions, as seen during the Covid pandemic. Those techniques are also at full-throttle for the climate catastrophists - with outright lying on the BBC, as seen in the latest nonsense from Chris Packham about The Daily Sceptic. What's equally depressing is how well-attested it is that bogus figures, falsely claiming scientific and technical authority, can get people to believe then do almost anything. The famous Stanford Prison experiment is proof enough of that.  

Behind all this is the grip Critical 'Theory' has, in our universities. This obvious cult is behind the rise of trans-gender madness and all the other attacks on objective reality. Critical 'Theory' is incoherent nonsense, proclaiming the non-existence of all truths except its own - especially empirical scientific ones. In doing so, it’s telling us to ignore what it says. Unfortunately it hasn't been ignored and the reason is obvious: it's promoted by shameless conmen, with enough people fooled, making it impossible for them to admit this has happened. It's akin to Scientology or the Reverend Jim Jones' 'People's Temple'; ever vigilant and ever needful of heretics for its survival and promotion. 

So it’s useful to widen one's gaze, beyond academia and our polity. I find True Crime a genre which gives a very different but linked insight into the propensity of people to be willingly hoodwinked. The most terrifying example I've seen is the extraordinary story of ‘The Puppet Master’ (https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81097362), as brilliantly recounted in the eponymous Netflix documentary   

A genius conman made millions, persuading apparently sane people that he was an MI5 agent. He claimed to be spying on the IRA, and that his victims needed to join him on the run in fear of their lives. Over a decade, he entrapped them and extorted vast quantities, supposedly to pay MI5 for their training and the squalid safe houses they occupied. One woman was his prisoner for ten years, nearly bankrupting her family in the process. I couldn’t help but be reminded of our Net-Zero zealots - urging us into complete economic collapse - or even of Chicken Little.

Robert Hendy Freegard was eventually jailed for life. Unfortunately, this was quashed on appeal and he's now out and hard at work on new victims - as tragically revealed in the documentary. Watching that, it's impossible not to hear Tony Blair in this psychopath's utterly convincing spiel. Freegard's relentlessness is especially reminiscent of our own ex-PM, the politician most responsible for the horrors we face now. He’s back and hard at work, preparing for Keir Starmer. Nothing short of a stake through his heart or a fusillade of silver bullets will rid us of him.

It's scary to see how many people these absurd frauds fool, from all walks of life. But then, look again at the Transgender, Climate and Covid cults...