Gabriel Gatehouse is a journalist and author. ‘The Coming Storm’, a podcast he co-created about America’s contemporary conspiracy theory culture, is on BBC Sounds; his book of the same name is published by Penguin.
Matthew Sweet is a journalist, historian and broadcaster. He contributed to the Antisemitism Policy Trust’s ‘Conspiracy Theories: A Guide for Members of Parliament and Candidates’.
Matthew Sweet: For the first time we have an incoming government in America, a large number of whose assumed personnel are fully paid-up members of conspiracy theory culture – what happens when that occurs? I think for a lot of the leaders of this insurgent culture being in power is going to be a difficult experience.
