![]() ![]() The low point of Saturday’s London rally came when Shemirani, who was struck off earlier this year for spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines, compared NHS nurses to the Nuremberg defendants.Īrendt wrote the above line in The Origins of Totalitarianism, her magnum opus on the murderous political movements of the 20th century. They included several notorious conspiracy theorists, such as David Icke, Piers Corbyn and the “anti-vaxxer” Kate Shemirani, a former nurse. This disdain for reality was most obvious in the precise date chosen for what was billed as an “anti-lockdown” protest: it took place on the first weekend of the year without Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.īut the protests were about more than lockdown, as could be discerned from a roster of speakers. ![]() The rabble of cranks and conspiracy theorists that descended on central London over the weekend displayed what Hannah Arendt once called a “conspicuous distain of the whole texture of reality”. ![]()
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