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Are conspiracy theories getting worse, with Jonn Elledge

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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The Deep State

Politicians seem to embrace the idea that something might be going on. Sometimes it's this shadowy idea of the deep state, which seems to be all powerful people who are behind government or have their hands on leaves of government. Seem to be a sense as well, of kind of blaming institutions, or applying conspiratorial thinking towards institutions. I'm an unreconstructed ramona. I would bloody love it if there was a shadowy conspiracy to keep that writon in theu. It just doesn't exist. We are out of the eu. We are not going back in. It's done. Thet us.

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