BOOKS & DAYDREAMS

As I sit down to write this daydream, the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (also known as the January 6 Committee) has just issued its final report. The report found that former US President Donald Trump acted “in support of a multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 Presidential election”. While the release of the report doesn’t bring the story of the Trump Presidency quite to an end, it is

In Northern NSW, there’s some graffiti written on a wall just outside the Lismore Base Hospital. The graffiti, written as a series of dot points, brings together an impressive number of community fears into one short mega-conspiracy. It says: create virus lockdown install 5G go cashless create RFID inject vaccine At the same time, the USA, the President, Donald Trump, is asked whether he agrees with the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. He refuses to refute it. Meanwhile in