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The Bitter After-Taste of the Candy Man’s Conspiracy

Long before Donald Trump’s ‘MAGA’, a society railing against the New World Order recruited thousands of acolytes across the United States. All it had to do was bide its time, writes Otto English

On a chilly Monday morning in early December 1958, 11 millionaires gathered at a hotel in Indiana. There, they listened intently as a 59-year-old confectionary executive, Robert W Welch Jr, explained how communists – acting as part of a globalist conspiracy – had infiltrated Washington and were seeking to spread the cancer of collectivism across the United States.

Robert W Welch Jr

Welch detailed the plans of the ‘New World Order’ and its collectivist agenda. He provided examples of how it was already being set in train. And he told his guests that the time to act was upon them.

He intended to upend the conspiracy, to reinstate old-fashioned values, and to fight a spiritual war that would make America great again. These disciples had to be at the forefront of the battle for the very soul of the country.

A Coalition of Contradictions: Who Is Voting for Reform?

The divergent drivers behind the different groups supporting Nigel Farage’s party show its appeal as a disruptor to traditional two-party politics – and its vulnerabilities. Olly Haynes reports
Olly Haynes

Disappointment in Dartford –Triumph for Reform

All three seats representing the town on Kent County Council turned light blue in England’s recent local elections. Sean Byrne-Roberts and Matt Gallagher met some of its residents to find out why
Sean Byrne-Roberts, Matt Gallagher