View From A Pub

Did the CIA fix Business Rates?! By John Pybus, Landlord of The Blue Bell, York I love a good conspiracy theory, me. I don’t know why, but I’m fascinated by nation-scale deviousness being kept secret by – delete where appropriate – the CIA/MI6/Illuminati/Lizard People/Bilderberg Group/Freemasons, Deep State, etc. I don’t really believe any of them, but I’m always up for a chat over the bar about who really killed JFK, if the Titanic really sank or if Neil Armstrong was actually in a film studio all along. I draw the line at the flat earth stuff, but generally speaking, it doesn’t matter how much truth is to be discovered; they’re just a good bit of banter. My favourites are the ones about some sort of shady government department working in the shadows with no public oversight, keeping secrets from all of us, working with big business to screw over working people. I really don’t know why, but it fascinates me: who are they? What are they up to? What’s the big secret?! And...