Did you see the excellent Conspiracy Files documentary that BBC2 broadcast this week on the July 7 bombings? I strongly recommend it. It builds into a gripping demolition of every lie that the antisemite-dominated ‘7/7 conspiracy’ movement has told. The hour-long show is currently on BBC iPlayer. If you don’t have time to watch it all, I’d recommend two highlights.

1) Leading conspiracy-freak and Holocaust-denier Nick Kollerstrom being confronted with evidence that undermines the claims he had finger-waggingly delivered earlier in the programme. It’s rabbit-in-the-headlights stuff. (49 mins, 40 seconds).

2) ‘Muab Dib’ – the narrator of a discredited 7/7 conspiracy internet video – being unmasked as John Hill, a white Yorkshireman living in Ireland. The programme-makers confront Hill – who looks like he should be in a ZZ Top tribute band – and find that with his protective cloak of internet anonymity swept away he is not so bold in his beliefs. (52 mins, 40 seconds).

Incidentally, as well as his nonsense about 7/7, Hill has written of his belief that he is the Messiah. Despite Hill and his claims being utterly discredited, the 7/7 conspiracy movement continues to propagate them. Tony Gosling, of the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement, laughingly admits that Hill has been undermined, but continues to promote Hill’s work on radio.

The ‘truth’ movement doesn’t care a jot about the truth. At the end of the programme, Gosling is shown visiting the chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, to ask if his mosque will promote more of this divisive, discredited nonsense. His visit was successful, that meeting is tomorrow night.

It is easy to dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazies with too much time on their hands. On the evidence of Conspiracy Files, that is undoubtedly true in many cases. But Gosling and some others fill that time by using work they know is discredited, to stir up division and hatred between communities. Horrible, chilling stuff.

In the meantime, my thoughts are with those injured, bereaved or otherwise effected by the bombings, as the anniversary approaches.

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