DOMINIC LAWSON: Was the Met's belief in 'Nick's' fantasies so very different from QAnon?
How we like to mock the credulity of Americans. Especially when that credulity manifests itself in paranoiac conspiracy theories. The latest, reported with amazement across the world, is QAnon, a social media-fuelled campaign, which claims the U.S. has been controlled by elite members of a paedophile gang with a penchant for the sex-trafficking of children. Many of its believers were among those who last month stormed the Capitol — most spectacularly in the form of Jacob Chansley, known to some as QAnon Shaman. He wore, for the occasion, a furry hat with horns. Then there is Marjorie Taylor...