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Ghost of a chance

’ve noted recently the veritable explosion of interest in conspiracy theories. This is because of Covid, right? But conspiracies and conspiracy theories have always been with us. One of the examples I often use is called “Blood Libel” – an anti-Semitic fairy tale in which Jewish people mix the blood of murdered Gentile children into the bread used to mark Pass over (or for other dastardly

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